glow plug testing - AAZ

[iggi]

Hi,

I'm sure this is buried in the archive somewhere but I couldn't find it.
How do I test the glowplugs?
It's taking a bit to get started on cold mornings and smokes like crazy when first started.

Figure it must be the glow plugs or the perhaps the relay but as I don't have the Bentley Manual yet I'm not sure how to test for the fault.

Any help much appreciated.
Ian

[commuter boy]

I've always found the easiest thing was to pull the injectors and watch the plugs heat up through the hole when someone turns on the ignition.

I hate fiddling around with the little nuts behind the fuel pump holding the glow plug harness on, and I never had a big enough ammeter to measure the draw on the circuit to test them properly.

$2.00 of new heat shields to go under the injectors afterwards, 10 minutes to pull injectors and re-install, + time to swap out dead plugs.