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• Glow plug issue? by d3adpool on 30 Nov, 2009 11:50
• I thought that my 94 Jetta had some glow plug issues, so I went and bought 4 new ones and wires to replace the bussbar. Hunted around to try and find out how to get to them since they are pretty much inacessable to my big mitts... I posted on another forum and they forwarded me over here to see if its a coolant sensor or if it could be the plugs.
  
  Hopefully, its not a HUGE weird issue... Im no super-car-guy so here's that its not too envolved.
  
  d3.
• #1 by dennis on 30 Nov, 2009 15:10
• Tools, and determination. Move stuff out of the way untill your there.
• #2 by Vincent Waldon on 30 Nov, 2009 18:12
• Some fairly methodical glowplug troubleshooting thoughts here:
  
  http://vincewaldon.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=41&Itemid=28
• #3 by d3adpool on 01 Dec, 2009 06:54
• Hi Vince, I know of your site and methodical explainations... I was planning on replacing the buss bar with the wire as per the "pimp out glow plug" section... but I still can't get to the plugs just because of the injectors, hardlines for fuel and what ever else.
  
  I havn't done much to the car since I got it due to the fact that it was going to be a temporary car ( 1 - 2 years ) since the economy sucks, now I have to fix this.
  
  Swapped the coolant sensor, tried to start the car after plugging in the block for a few hours... white smoke, no hesitation just cranking. :/
  
  I called a mechanic from an old company I worked for, hopefully he can stop out and tear thru it.
  
  Any direction would be awesome.
• #4 by Vincent Waldon on 01 Dec, 2009 09:17
• Quote from: d3adpool on 01 Dec, 2009 06:54

  Hi Vince, I know of your site and methodical explainations... I was planning on replacing the buss bar with the wire as per the "pimp out glow plug" section... but I still can't get to the plugs just because of the injectors, hardlines for fuel and what ever else.
  
  I havn't done much to the car since I got it due to the fact that it was going to be a temporary car ( 1 - 2 years ) since the economy sucks, now I have to fix this.
  
  Swapped the coolant sensor, tried to start the car after plugging in the block for a few hours... white smoke, no hesitation just cranking. :/
  
  I called a mechanic from an old company I worked for, hopefully he can stop out and tear thru it.
  
  Any direction would be awesome.
  

  
  The two key points to troubleshooting glowplugs would be:
  
  - have you been able to confirm power to the glow plug buss bar, using a test light or multimeter? 
  - If so, have you been able to confirm continuity at each glow plug?