hi all

Have a 90 land cruiser diesel with right hand drive ( never released in
north America) and cannot find the fuse for the glow plugs....any ideas?

uboo

Can you send me a picture of that vehicle ) or post it.
I have seen one of those on the road in Tennessee, and no one believes me
"GM Place" <uboo@telus.net> wrote in message
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On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 02:05:09 GMT, "GM Place" <uboo@telus.net> wrote:

I'm betting you aren't going to find a conventional fuse - the glow
plugs take a lot of juice, somewhere between 50 and 100 amps, more
than even electric window motors. Those items don't take regular
fuses, or if they do they're going to be the big ones that bolt into a
two-stud block, protected by a plastic cover against accidental
shorts.

And if it isn't an oversized fuse, I'd expect it to be protected by
a thermal circuit breaker, or a fusible link - special wire that pops
like a fuse.

Are you sure that the glow plug relay is closing and sending juice
to the glow plugs? First thing I'd do is get out the good old
fashioned test light and see where the power is or isn't going.

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thanks for the info....the glow plugs are not getting power, but the wiring
vanishes into a taped bundle, and was hoping to find a
listing for which relay/fuse/fusible link it might be, and where it is....oh
well, I guess I will keep trying

thanks
uboo
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On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 05:17:47 GMT, "GM Place" <uboo@telus.net> wrote:

Don't give up so easily! Think! ;-) Okay, you know what gauge and
color wire it is, and what direction it was headed when you saw it
last. Now keep going in that direction and see what is next...

Was it one big wire that obviously looped through all (four? six?)
glowplugs, or did each one have it's own #10 going into the harness?
If they were four separate leads, there may be a big splice inside the
harness where the #10's turn into one larger #6, but they usually
don't change wire color mid stream. Usually.

Next step: Check at the underhood fuse center for big relays with
that color wire landing on the bottom, or a stand-alone solenoid style
relay near the battery with that color on one side.

If it's in a fuse and relay cluster, they usually mark them for
function somewhere on the block or the cover, even if it's done in
cryptic abbreviations.

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