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Old Jun 29, 2004 | 12:41 PM
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Wait to Start light stays on...

This is an intermittent problem, but sometimes if I start the truck up, the WTS light will stay lit. It did it today on the way back from lunch, and I let it go to see how long it would stay on. Well after about 5 minutes I shut the truck off at a light and fired it back up, light went away. This happens about every 3 months or so, and has done this before and after I got my Predator. Could this be a sign my glow plug relay is going south, or some other component for that matter?

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It probably has something to do with your glow plug relay or the glow plugs in general. That same thing happened to my X the morning after I bought it. Even then I turned it off and fired it back up again, the SES light stayed on. When I took it in, they said the glow plug relay had gone south. It ran fine, but, I didn't want to take any chances. If and when it happens again, I'd detune and take it in.
 
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