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Vehicle & Technical => Range Rover => Topic started by: way2deep on January 19, 2005, 21:42:21

Title: vm glow plugs
Post by: way2deep on January 19, 2005, 21:42:21

i am thinking of putting new glow plugs in my 2.4 vm diesel.it's looks real tight on cyl 1+2 do they come out past the pump or does that have to come off first... :(

Title: vm glow plugs
Post by: Bobtail on January 21, 2005, 03:37:40

hi
i have just changed mine
i've got a 1990 2.5 but same as yours,yes you can change them
without taking off the pump, the hard and fiddly bit is getting
the b%££dy 8mm nuts for the power lead back on again,took me
half hour to change plugs and two hours to get the nuts backs
on again, on the front two :D
good luck and try not too swear too much trying to find the 8mm
nuts after dropping them for the ?????? time

Title: glow plugs
Post by: way2deep on January 23, 2005, 00:46:49

i know how you feel mate have taken them off,too right very fiddly.i am not looking forward to putting new ones back in.think i will put a big sheet under motor put catch them 8mm nuts.number 1+2 look sods to get back on. :(

Title: vm glow plugs
Post by: Bobtail on January 25, 2005, 06:41:53

good luck mate you are going to need it :D  :D
it just takes patience( :D yeah right)
and try not to damage the motor too much
after your tenth time of scrabbling under the
motor to find the b"£"£y nuts and becareful
as they can get stuck behind the pump :lol:

Title: plugs
Post by: way2deep on January 30, 2005, 22:20:46

oh lordy,i put my glow plugs in today and did not drop one of those 8 mm nuts..... :D  :D

Title: vm glow plugs
Post by: Bobtail on January 31, 2005, 15:19:20

well done it must just be my butter fingers then :D

Title: plugs
Post by: way2deep on January 31, 2005, 23:05:15

all in vain tho..still won't start off the key :(  :(

Title: vm glow plugs
Post by: hobbit on February 01, 2005, 14:31:05

Robbie

I'm presuming you have checked that the feed is going through to the plugs?

Title: plugs
Post by: way2deep on February 01, 2005, 23:24:57

:oops: it's ok now ,i has sussed the problem out !! on it,s last quarry outing i layed it on it's side and the battery on one side has lost all it's  water in two cells,once i had filled these and re charged the batteries it started first time :oops: was not a waste of time tho cos one plug was totally dead

Title: vm glow plugs
Post by: hobbit on February 02, 2005, 08:38:08

Got it in the end eh :wink:

Sounds like a volt meter might be handy in the motor, or a 'sealed battery', but they have their good and bad points though

Something I'm considering on the series vehicles anyway, voltmeter and oil pressure gauge

Title: vm glow plugs
Post by: Bobtail on February 02, 2005, 12:38:02

glad to hear you sorted it need as many v&m's on the road as
poss just so we can show them tdi's a thing or two :lol:  :lol:  :D

Title: vm's
Post by: way2deep on February 02, 2005, 23:09:03

yeah, the thing i like is no cam belt problems.keep it basic thats what i like.the problem i found was the batteries were dying too quick before the old gal fired up..ok now tho. just gotta decide which one gets the disc cuttter treatment and declared the quarry only toy :twisted: