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Small world.
Woody I live in Clinton, up near Ogden.
Fire Rooster I graduated in, yes 94, from Mountain View HS in Mesa. I also took some Firefighting courses at MCC. Most of my instructors were Phoenix Fire. The only one that comes to mind right now is Wes Traynor (there was another instructor for FF1&2, he was a captain for Phx but lived up in Payson, think his name was Dave ?). But I had pretty much every class MCC had to offer for a Fire Science Degree.
Mike
Woody I live in Clinton, up near Ogden.
Fire Rooster I graduated in, yes 94, from Mountain View HS in Mesa. I also took some Firefighting courses at MCC. Most of my instructors were Phoenix Fire. The only one that comes to mind right now is Wes Traynor (there was another instructor for FF1&2, he was a captain for Phx but lived up in Payson, think his name was Dave ?). But I had pretty much every class MCC had to offer for a Fire Science Degree.
Mike
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Well happy reunion guys ........ 
...... Anyway back to the subject for a moment ........ Im suspecting its the glow plug relay......... When you turn on ignition for glow plug warm up the solonoid has sufficient power from the battery to power up the glow plugs ..... But when you crank the engine the power to the glow plug solonoid drops and there is insufficient power to maintain solonoid contact at the relay and hence the buzzing, clicking sound from the relay.
...... Anyway back to the subject for a moment ........ Im suspecting its the glow plug relay......... When you turn on ignition for glow plug warm up the solonoid has sufficient power from the battery to power up the glow plugs ..... But when you crank the engine the power to the glow plug solonoid drops and there is insufficient power to maintain solonoid contact at the relay and hence the buzzing, clicking sound from the relay.
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From: Saratoga Springs, UT
Originally Posted by Nickiboy
Well happy reunion guys ........ ...... Anyway back to the subject for a moment ........ Im suspecting its the glow plug relay......... When you turn on ignition for glow plug warm up the solonoid has sufficient power from the battery to power up the glow plugs ..... But when you crank the engine the power to the glow plug solonoid drops and there is insufficient power to maintain solonoid contact at the relay and hence the buzzing, clicking sound from the relay.
...... Anyway back to the subject for a moment ........ Im suspecting its the glow plug relay......... When you turn on ignition for glow plug warm up the solonoid has sufficient power from the battery to power up the glow plugs ..... But when you crank the engine the power to the glow plug solonoid drops and there is insufficient power to maintain solonoid contact at the relay and hence the buzzing, clicking sound from the relay.
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From: Saratoga Springs, UT
Originally Posted by rosa70
Did you ever replace the starter solenoid?
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From: Saratoga Springs, UT
Originally Posted by rosa70
Did you ever replace the starter solenoid?
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From: Tally-ho
THAT'S IT...same thing happened to my truck...and hten i had to turn it over with a friggin screwdriver(!)..$11 at autozone ithink? i got an extra one in my toolbox which any of y'all are welcome to have free. shoot me a pm and i'll mail it off to ya
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From: Saratoga Springs, UT
Originally Posted by TOPFLOR
THAT'S IT...same thing happened to my truck...and hten i had to turn it over with a friggin screwdriver(!)..$11 at autozone ithink? i got an extra one in my toolbox which any of y'all are welcome to have free. shoot me a pm and i'll mail it off to ya
Siyé
Siyé
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My truck finally had enough today. It wouldn't start at all and after only two or three times of trying to turn it over for a couple seconds each, the batteries started sounding pretty weak. Since they are the original batteries(almost 6 years old), I decided it wouldn't hurt to replace them. Put the new batteries in and it started right up. I wish I would have done that sooner, I've been dealing with this problem for almost a year. My truck has never turned over so fast in the three years I've had it, it's always dragged a little and now that I think of it, when I've heard other diesels start up, they sound like mine does now. Thanks for all your help. I've got some glow plugs for sale if anyone needs them. LOL
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Just got back from having the batteries load tested one at a time. Tested fine. No sooner then I got in the truck to start it after having them tested it did the clicking again. Mechanic believes I might have a bad cell in one of the batteries causing it only to happen once in a while. Will replace batteries soon and give results.