The 300D has a keyswitch operated relay and vacuum shutoff, not a
pull knob.
Peter
On Nov 3, 2008, at 12:49 PM, Loren Faeth wrote:
have someone hold out the glow switch. with a volt meter check for
voltage on each busbar. when you get to the one that has no
voltage, moving forward, then the plug behind that is the bad one.
If you replace loop type with loop type, then everything, including
the ground goes back as before. If you replace series, loop type
with pencil type, then you do not use the insulators or busbars, or
the ground. for the pencil type, you need to make up new 10 ga
wires with terminals for the GPs. It is difficult to locate 10 ga
connectors with small terminal holes, but they are available.
Pencil type are wired in parallel, with 12v at the terminal of each
plug.
At 12:37 PM 11/3/2008, you wrote:
I know this has been covered lots of times but if someone out
there wouldn't mind, I would like to be reminded of
the procedure for checking the old style series glow plugs.
My car would not start this morning and it was in the garage and
it is not cold out. The orange light came on as
normal and went out as normal and it cranked pretty good but never
started. It blew clouds of grey-black smoke out
the back. I am guessing that I may have had at least one
questionable glow plug for a while and have now perhaps
lost another. It tried to start but I could not get it to catch
notwithstanding that I tried a number of times and
ran the battery down to where I finally decided it was best to
just leave it alone. I put the charger on the
battery for the morning and left it in the garage. I say I may
have had a glow plug or two bad because it has not
been starting all that strongly lately. It would start a bit rough
and blow smoke until it evened out. I know that
I need to adjust the valves too as I have never done it and I have
put about 9K miles on it. Don't know when it
might have had that done last before I got it.
I have a whole set of new glow plugs that I got from Rusty a year
or more back and have never installed. I suppose
I should throw the whole set of new ones in and save any existing
good ones for spares.
Anything special I should know about changing them out? What is
the process for checking to see which might be bad?
Maybe the car just does not like November! I have not run it past
Halloween in previous years as my insurance
normally runs out on the last day of October. I usually just
switch to storage insurance and leave it in the garage
for the winter. However, I needed the car on Saturday as I had to
go out of town and my elder son did too. He used
my Supercrew and I kept the insurance on the MB for a few more
days. The weather is really nice here today so I was
going to drive it to work. I need to pick up some oil and do the
change before it goes into storage for the winter
too.
Randy
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