From: Sonny Heath (sonny@defuniak.com)
Date: Mon Feb 21 2005 - 05:53:45 PST
You will no doubt get some flak from that post, or I would at least. lol
Sonny
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ted Hintopoulos" <hint@northnet.org>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 7:44 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] CUCV Glow Plugs
> At 21:34 02/20/05 -0600, Sonny Heath wrote:
> >Are the glow plugs for the CUCV and the HMMWV the same item?
> >On my CUCV the plug has a flat end on it where you slide the
> >wire end on and the HMMWV one I bought has round ends so the wire won't
fit
> >on. Is this normal or are they different in that way?
>
> The CUCV types (flat end) are basically 12V type plugs.
> In a good working system, the plugs each see about 12-14 Volts.
>
> The HMMWV types (round end) are basically 24V plugs.
> The plugs all get 24Volts. No dropping resistor pack is used.
> The plugs should only be heated for a max of
> 8 seconds at a time.
>
> You wouldn't hurt anything using HMMWV plugs on a CUCV.
> They simply will not get as hot, cold weather starting maybe prolonged.
>
> Thats the short story.
> Ted.
>
>
>
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