I need to wire in a manual glow plug interrupter push button switch now but forgot the best easiest way. I read someplace where I could grab shot at the card and jump it or interrupt there with a lead coming off a purple pink blue some fuc ing color wire at the card to a button.
The glow plug relay has two small terminals with two small wires attached: the positive wire (+) is pink with a black stripe, and the negative wire (-) is light blue... To manually close the relay with the key turned forward to the "
on/run" position, you simply need to connect the the light blue wire to ground.
You can either splice the light blue wire under the dash (near the glow plug controller card), or you can splice at the GP relay itself... In your situation, I would splice at or very near the GP relay to eliminate any doubts about the truck's original wiring under the dash. Splice or interrupt the light blue wire, connect the splice to one side of your new push button switch, and connect the other side of your switch to ground.
If you cannot get the relay to close with a manual switch interrupting the light blue wire, you will need to verify that you are getting voltage at the pink/black wire with key turned to "
on/run"... The relay will not close without (+) power applied to one terminal, and (-) ground through the second terminal.
There is a connector at the back of the engine with the other connectors that has is not plugged into anything that has a jumper with a little resistor on it, I forgot the wiring color going into it but I was wondering what it was.
Should be the water-in-fuel circuit's diode, based on the location... See the attached photo, below.
You can ignore this connector for now, since you converted to a spin-on fuel filter.
Need to throw power to the system this am Sir and get the f out of here.
First order of business is to bleed the new fuel filter. Second order of business is to verify functionality of the glow plug relay.
To better help you troubleshoot a no-start or no-run condition, we need to know if you're getting fuel to the injectors, and if the glow plugs are firing. Posting photos can also help us see what you're seeing.
I would really like to see what the area you're in looks like though. From what I've found, it doesn't look like the kind of place that would even have a Wal-Mart.
He's north of oldtown/downtown, in a not-so-picturesque mixed business and light industrial district... Probably fine in the daytime, but with a distinctly different clientele at night, especially that close to the river.
