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Engine Specific Info and Questions => IDI Engine => Topic started by: MouseGTD on October 31, 2008, 05:56:28 pm

Title: simple glow plug circuit?
Post by: MouseGTD on October 31, 2008, 05:56:28 pm

so i've done a gas to diesel conversion, i've got it running (just sticking a wire to the glow plugs from the battery) but i need help making a more usable system to get it started, i used the wiring loom from the gasser and was planning to just make a simple circuit just using the original parts i have from the doner car, but i'm not very good at wiring so could do with some help from you guys.

i have all the parts still in the old car, i just need to know what parts i will need and how to hook them up, i'm not after any thing fancy, just a simple glow plug circuit using the parts i have.

Title: simple glow plug circuit?
Post by: burn_your_money on October 31, 2008, 05:58:47 pm

Have you read this yet?

http://www.vwdiesel.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=12413

Title: simple glow plug circuit?
Post by: MouseGTD on November 01, 2008, 06:15:55 am

yeah i've already read that but i was hoping to just use the parts i already have from the doner car.

also which relay is the one for the glow plugs?

Title: simple glow plug circuit?
Post by: Smokey Eddy on November 01, 2008, 12:16:18 pm

I think the relay is in the dash somewhere?
I was so angry with the stupid stock relay being broken i just got an 80 amp relay and a toggle light switch and put that in my dash in one of the empty spots. It cost me less than 10$ and like half an hour of time to wire it up.

Title: simple glow plug circuit?
Post by: MouseGTD on November 01, 2008, 03:49:02 pm

sorted it, spent 2 hours in the shed with the diesel loom cutting out the glow plug bits and testing it with a bulb and a battery, finally got it down to a couple of components and four wires, so its nice and simple, can be hidden in the scuttle tray and it'll still work off the key so no forgetting to flick a switch off 8)

Title: simple glow plug circuit?
Post by: theman53 on November 01, 2008, 07:18:56 pm

when my GP relay went bad I used an INTERMITANT toggle switch on the cheapest ford seliniod money could buy. Had less in all the wiring and seliniod than one GP relay and when I hit the toggle I knew they were working...also when I let go I knew they were off.

Title: simple glow plug circuit?
Post by: LoneWolf on November 04, 2008, 01:15:18 am

i smell a TD 'Rocco on the horizon...

Title: simple glow plug circuit?
Post by: Smokey Eddy on November 04, 2008, 02:49:26 am

An intermittent switch is a much better idea.
I think I'll change to that in hind sight. I just love the lit up switches at night :P