From: Long, Michael C [CARD] (mlong@iastate.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 29 2006 - 07:08:13 PST
First step in removing a suspect glow plug is get that cylinder on TDC!,
then proceed with all the other excellent methods already presented.
Why, you may ask? That way if you break parts of the glow plugs off
they have much less chance falling down into the cylinder. Compressed
air blown in the glow plug hole with the injector out can help flush
debris out too.
> Message-ID: <001901c6528f$ee1e6c50$7d01a8c0@BALTO>
> From: "Chance Wolf" <bigbadwolf@telus.net>
> Subject: Re: [MV] HMMMV glowplug questions:
> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:49:11 -0800
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "SGM PANTANO" <TRUKS1@msn.com>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 8:31 AM
> Subject: Re: [MV] HMMMV glowplug questions:
>
>
> > The best glow plug removal tool is a good pair of needle
> nose pliers..
> > If you are pulling a swelled glow plug out of the hole --
> and it breaks -
> > you are in deep crapola...you will have to pull the head.
> > I have put this on before...but apparently folks think the
> stupid tool is
> a
> > miracle worker..?!
> > IT IS NOT....Do this
>
> Mileage varies, of course, but all the "miracle worker" tool does is
> exercise the same leverage everyone tries to apply with vice-grips and
> screwdrivers and needlenose pliers and what-not but
> concentrates it all in
> the most useful direction; i.e., straight-out. I was
> somewhat skeptical
> when I first heard of them but then Work ordered one in for
> me to try, and
> now it sits in a very hallowed place all its own on my
> tool-shelf in its
> very own altar. I've had to pull out three sets of
> swelled/stuck plugs with
> the thing so far and; a) have had no problems at all; b)
> haven't broken a
> single plug; c) haven't invented any new Colourful
> Combinations of Curses.
> In short, it works - and works well.
>
> I've just grabbed it off the shelf to see what the label is,
> and though
> there's no part no. on the thing, it has " www.militaryjeep.com
> 818-772-0806 " lasered on it. Anyhow, for whatever it's
> worth, a hearty
> endorsement from yours truly, and that's from working on
> CUCV, their civvy
> equivalents, and HMMWVs all (like many on the list, of course.)
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