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Its been a month. Ive been swamped. Between the fields, the house, building multiple fences, doing electrical at the house, building a covered porch, and just random stuff here and there I haven't had time to do anything productive on the truck. The poor truck only gets cranked up to move 3klbs or more on the bed. Not pictured is the 3600lbs of 40x 80lbs concrete bags.
Well it got to 30 degrees outside last 2 days and the truck hasn't been started in about a week. Cranked over just fine but didn't want to fire off and run. Got the ole multimeter out. 12.6V on the constant hot side and then 12.6V on the key on to the glowplug side. Then slowly trickled down to 12.1V after being on for 30 seconds. (Batteries are low from cranking and are on charger.) So it sounds like I should have just done the glowplugs while I was in there. Was a lazy move on my part, but is what it is.
Picture of a fat prego doggy for attention.
Really wish I had time to swap in new glowplugs. Untill then I figured out all I need to do to get it to crank up in the morning is run it the afternoon before untill it gets to temp and then immediately plug it in and leave it in overnight. Cranks right up at 27 degrees.
Really wish I had time to swap in new glowplugs. Untill then I figured out all I need to do to get it to crank up in the morning is run it the afternoon before untill it gets to temp and then immediately plug it in and leave it in overnight. Cranks right up at 27 degrees.
2hrs of block heater should make it crank at only 27*. That thing is 1000watts! At that temp, you should see full engine operating temp in a few hours!!
