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Cold starting...
EvilEd:
The swedes turn their lights on for 30 secs - 1 min before trying to start in cold weather, to "Warm" the battery up. Turn em off before you start it though :)
I take it from your description that it's slow to turn over, not hard to start??? If it's hard to start, then look at the glow plugs, if it's just slow to turn over, then insulate / warm the battery. Make sure your glow plug light has gone out too... they draw some hefty current from the battery, so running them two or three times should "warm" the battery too!
Henry Webster:
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--- Quote from: "Henry Webster" ---You could try giving it a number of doses of pre-heat.
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Eh? :?
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i.e. waiting for the glow plug light to go out once, turn off ign, turn back on wait for light...etc...
--- Quote from: "gords" ---How do you check the glow plugs are working?
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I don't know off the top of my head, check the Haynes manual. Certainly going round with a multimeter will test the feeds. Someone on another thread mentioned a way of checking for a faulty plug - involved taking one out at a time, but I can't remember exactly how.
H
fram:
I'd like one of those pre heaters, but don't they cost a fortune?
hobbit:
I usually test a glow plug by using a jump lead and earthing it to the neg on the battery
A plug can still work but sometimes the tip will not heat up enough
On some engines, it can ony take one plug to be down to stop it, it goes without saying before removing the glow plugs, check the voltage going through the system ok, it may be a faulty relay :wink:
NeilWilson:
--- Quote from: "fram" ---I'd like one of those pre heaters, but don't they cost a fortune?
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They are a bit expensive, (£500), but worth it IMHO. Cheers.
Neil
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