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Good morning,
I plugged my 2000 X in this morning due to the cold weather and sparks shot out through the plug. I quickly unplugged it and found a nick in the wire and I taped it with electrical tape and plugged it back in. My question is how do I know it is working properly and I didn't burn anything up? Is there way that I can tell if the glow plugs are being heated?
Thank you for your input,
Joe
I plugged my 2000 X in this morning due to the cold weather and sparks shot out through the plug. I quickly unplugged it and found a nick in the wire and I taped it with electrical tape and plugged it back in. My question is how do I know it is working properly and I didn't burn anything up? Is there way that I can tell if the glow plugs are being heated?
Thank you for your input,
Joe
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The glow plugs are not heated when you plug it in. The block heater is what you are plugging in and it heats the coolant in the block. You could look at your electric meter when it's plugged in or not, it should spin faster with it plugged in. You could also touch the engine block after it's been plugged in for at least a couple hours. If it is warmer than everything else the heater is working.
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Do you have a DMM? The heater is probably like a water heater and should have a very high resistance, when you pass enough current through it, it gets very hot. Hopefully you should read a resistance and not infinite resistance. If you read a low resistance then you have another short or the element is probably shot.
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