TAMD40! - Glow plugs

[NoSlack]

Made a few calls today and came up empty. Valley Detroit Diesel is a Volvo rep and said they could order them at $50 a pop. Volvo #838954

They have shops in Irvine as well as City of Industry if you want to go through them.
http://www.valleypowersystems.com/

Onece I got the Volvo number I did a parts search at Stem to Stern and came up with the same price. http://www.stemtostern.com/catalog/D...oryRefID=60928

I think $50 a pop is way out of line. The price must go up 200% when Volvo re-packages stuff they by from Bosch.

Best bet is to find someone that will order straight from Bosch.

I'll keep looking for a better deal until I hear from you.

Mike

[saltwaters]

Thanks for the part number. This should help. I found two on-line sites that can get them from using the Bosch part number.

Parts America and Summit Racing. Both of these guys were around $30.00 - $32.00.

One of my local auto parts store is looking as well since he can order straight from Bosch. This might be my best bet.

It's kind of funny, Volvo diesel car at $8.00 - $11.00 and Volvo diesel boat at $50.00. What a racket?

Thank you for spending your time looking for me. I do appreciate it. If my local guy can't get them for cheaper, I'll order from one of the on-line stores.

Bill

[NoSlack]

I like that Parts America site. It's one of the few online site you can put a part number in without entering in some vehical info first.

Thier price is the same as I paid 9 years ago here in town. I can't pass up a deal like that, so I ordered up a couple glow plugs for the boat and the truck.

Looks like you helped me out on this one.

Mike

[saltwaters]

Great. I got a chance to return the favor.

[Old Blue]

Bill, don't know if anyone has suggested this or not but soaking that thing with Aerokroil before you try removing it would probably help.

I don't think that putting air into the intake manifold would get the job done, it would probably run out through the air cleaner or other spots in the valve train. Maybe you could put that cylinder on its compression stroke, remove the injector and use a fitting with matching threads to fill the cylinder with compressed air and blow it out that way. Come to think of it you probably just need a tapered rubber stopper with an air line running through the center to press against the hole when you pressurize it. Making sure like Mike suggested that you capture the projectile!

Keep us posted on your search for those glow plugs. A long time ago I got some from some auto parts place ( can't remember which one) and I think I got them for $12-15.

If your motor still doesn't start as fast as you would like it may be fuel system leakage/depressurization. When I was trying to get my current moter to fire after installation one thing I did was remove the glow plugs and turned the motor over. It was quite a sight with big clouds of atomized fuel shooting out of the holes. When I put the plugs back in and fired it up, I don't think it even turned one revolution before it was running smoothly. It's never started anywhere near that fast since then and I take it that it's because the high pressure segments of the system bleed off pressure as it sits between starts and needs a certain number of cranks to get em all injecting again.

I think you can check the plugs in the hole by checking for continuity. With that many plugs not heating I'll bet you'll see significant improvement in starting.

Keep us posted and let us know what you find.

Brian on Old Blue....out.

[saltwaters]

Brian,

I'll give the Aerokroil a shot. I didn't have any high tech penetrating fluids with me so I used the old stand-by WD40. Who knows, it might be loose now that it sat for a week.

I'll keep you updated on my progress. I ordered some glow plugs from PartsAmerica last night but didn't receive a confirmation e-mail from them. I hope this isn't a bad sign.

Bill

[NoSlack]

I'll be out of town until July 8th. There should be 2 glow plugs shipped to my house early next week if you need them. I'll e-mail you the number here at the house incase you need to come by and grab them.

Mike

[saltwaters]

Well, John Benson and I tried to get the glow plug out of the head. Didn't happen. We pulled the head and all other parts last weekend. I spent the whole week cleaning and painting the parts. John will reinstall the head tomorrow and I'll finish the rest of the engine. I hope to hear it run tomorrow.

I'll post the results. I guess the bright side of this exercise is I'm learning more about these 40 series engines and this engine ran hotter than the other one so cleaning the aftercooler, oil cooler and heat exchanger should fix this problem. The down side is I'm still working on the darn thing 8 months after I bought it. Have only fished three times since December 04.

Bummer.