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Old 10-29-2011, 06:38 AM
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I am new to diesels and I have a question about the glow plug relay. I am not geting any juice to my glow plugs so I tried to test my glow plug relay. I used a test light and got power to the large incoming power lead and not the outgoing to the plugs. so obveously i need to replace the relay. My question is why doesn't it activate my plugs when I arc accross the two large leads with a screwdriver. It doesn't spark or anything. I was wondering if that is because the plugs themselves are bad too. I would really be thankful for any info you could give me. O yea It is a 95 ford powerstoke.
 
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Old 10-29-2011, 10:39 AM
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It should throw some power when you jump the relay...
 
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Old 10-29-2011, 11:15 AM
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just because it doesn't spark, doesn't mean it's not sending power. if you went from the hot post to the block it would spark...
 
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So i also don't have any power to the two small leads either. Does this just mean that my gpr is really bad or do i have something else going on
 
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western plow gpr
 
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