Re: [MBZ] Culprit Found

2007-03-26 Thread Loren Faeth
In my experience, they fail more frequently than pencil type. I always spent the bucks to convert to pencil type/parallel glow plugs At 11:08 PM 3/25/2007, you wrote: > Some day I will learn to check the simple things first. Sage advice. > And do the old loop style GPs *ever* burn out? I th

Re: [MBZ] Culprit Found

2007-03-26 Thread Jim Cathey
Some day I will learn to check the simple things first. Sage advice. And do the old loop style GPs *ever* burn out? I think it's fairly rare. -- Jim

[MBZ] Culprit Found

2007-03-24 Thread B Dike
Dieselvolk, I finally tracked down the hard starting problem with our brand new 74 240D. It was starting fine, then one morning it suddenly took excessive cranking and barely started. It had all the hallmarks of a bad GP as so often happens with the W123s, so I immediately swapped all of them