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After the situation of glow plugs we took a sight inside with an endoskop (going in during injektor hole)
Seems we have before bodyworks a job to do on the engine....
For us it is now the second time where the controller goes down. Something we should thought about for the future. All around starts to change on the manually glow, so it seems to work. I am still not sure what we will do. Starting in the next holiday time a measurement around the electrical...
Thanks I found that threads this morning and it helps to understand more of the function. Still waiting on some parts before I can go on with solving that problem.
M1008 (German Licence declare it as GMC Truck/Coach USA CD30903 LKW offener Kasten) 1.11.1985 US Army Germany with 45000 Miles and some bumps of rough using but out of bullet holes :D=> 10.10.1996 bought and now 36 years old and since 25 years in our hand
Gone in a long time storage of 15...
Seems to be a good option - maybe one or two starts out of card and changing anything will not damage. How do you connect this?
We done several tests with the defect controller before we could figure out the problem.
At least we found of this damaged glowplugs (13G) - a failure what is...
I don`t want blame you for not fixing anything. I wonder if it works as I thought about the same to do .... but as I had informed me about that way did i found a lot of different opinion in this case and so i decided not to do because i fear damage of a wrong performance.
As there ist a car shop...
Just remove the card can result in hardly problems as there are serveral things which involved by the card. Did you modificate something and work all good in this condition? We expected before storage the coming down of the card as we needed two times before the engine started. The same symptom...
Hi,
is there anybody who can tell me why owners may change from the glow plug controller to manually glow system?
What ist the advantage?
After the controller now is broken the second time and no more new one are available in Germany I start to think about that issue again.
I was really happy...
Hi,
we are located in Westgermany near Münster and owned since 1997 an Ex-Army M1008.
He got 2000 new color as Show-Truck for our small metalworkcompany. Than after we closed it in 2005 he still wait in storage the rebirth in 2020. Before we bought the M1008 had we restorated an M38A1 in...
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