Thanks for the advice. I have a friend making me some suitable plug to
plug cables since I don't have a good crimp tool. The plugs are on the
way
from Rusty. I still may attempt to use 4 of the 5 spots on my 300D glow
plug relay at some point in the future, but there would be that issue
of
it not seeing what it wants from the missing glow plug which would
probably cause the glow plug light on the dash to do funny things..
Eh? You're not planning to use that relay and wire the whole string to
only one pin? That won't work, those pins aren't rated for the full
current. Individually, that is. And yes, the light won't work right.
Changing it to a four-banger also would not be easy, as the current
sensing
works via balanced windings working against a reed switch. You'd have
to
rewind the heavy wire coil around there to compensate, and I'm not sure
you can do this without ruining it. If you open the relay all should
become clear with a bit of studying. (Though come to think of it the
5-cylinder version has a weird 'bolt-on' arrangement for handling #5,
so maybe it could be converted after all. More study would be req'd.)
We all are assuming you will continue to use the existing, very heavy
single-contact relay you have. That will work just fine, it just
doesn't
have the plug-out detection logic. (They all have to be out for it to
complain, it was designed for a series string.)
-- Jim
