Try cycling the glow plugs through, two or three times before you start it,
in cold weather. It seems to help.
Ed Morgan
-----Original Message-----
From: jonathon <jemery@execpc.com>
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Date: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 10:32 PM
Subject: [MV] CUCV 12V convertion
>Trying to help a fellow club member. I know little of anything about
CUCV's
>but I recall some interesting glow plug discussion a few months ago which I
>looked up but was not exactly what I needed. He has an M1028 which was
>converted to 12V only and the space formerly occupied by the second
>alternator now has an A/C compressor in its place.
>
>He's having starting problems and says the glow plugs are on for like 3
>minutes and even so the engine will not start. He says the plugs are 11G
>which according to an old post are 12V civy plugs. These are connected to
a
>resistor such that they only run at 6V. Sounds to me like someone already
>did some rework in the glow plug system, but did they do it right or did
>they do everything they should have? Any thoughts????
>
>thanks,
>
>je
>
>
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