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In conclusion and so that others may benefit, this is what happened: after I replaced the glow plugs and the GP relay, (Napa ST85 but ST94 also works) but, because of a bad glow plug card (not known at this time yet) the glow plugs stayed on all of the time, this apparently draws about 100 amps...

Also, I did find the vacuum hose, it’s dry rotted and has a big crack, I tried a temp fix with duct tape but I believe air still leaking bc still that whistle

Ah that is good to know thanks! I’m a little more than “slightly more than finger tight” but nothing crazy and used a dab of anti seize this time

Yea it was a decent amount of smoke that made me uncomfortable, no mud and no water… a little dust and the system had been not altogether working properly for a couple months (bad relay) so it may havecollected some dust but I thought I gave enough time to burn that little bit of dust...

So is the vacuum line a rubber hose or a hard line? I didn’t think about the whistling being a good sign! Appreciate your help

Ok I’ll have to look for that…I was in that area, removed that resistor so as to bypass it because it kept smoking …but that is where a distributor would be

I changed all eight glow plugs and the glow plug relay today to get m1008 starting correctly and now it does, however, afterwards while driving I noticed a slight but unquestionably noticeable whistling noise that is proportional to RPM’s (ie higher RPMs = louder whistling and vise versa; almost...