Changing glow plugs 99 super duty

[fordman00]

Just thought I'd do a little write up on how to change glowplugs. I know alot of you guys have diesel tow rigs.

To start off I bought my gp's from koi auto parts on the west side of Hamilton, their ford factory replacements.

I started with the drivers side, first remove the intake system, intercooler tubes, and then the bracket that holds part of your intake system, then proceed with the valve covers. After you do that remove the black and white wire with the plug next to the injector, the glow plug is under that you can break them loose with a socket wrench, but I had to use a rubber hose to finish taking them out because the extended socket would hit the rocker and prevent further removal. After you remove and replace check your valve cover gasket to see if it is still usable, then if it is reusable replace everything in sane order you removed, I didn't torque any bolts I made sure they were "snug" and went back and checked them again last night.


The passenger side is more of a pain because all the stuff in the way, i loosened the degas bottle to make the intercooler tube removal easier, then removal the valve cover and replace glow plugs, this is where I ran into a problem I believe it's the number 3 cylinder the glow plug was seized into head! So after 4 hours of getting aggravated about it, when finally removed injector for more room, and took a pair of vise grips and welded a nut to the handle and used a slide hammer to remove it. After it came out upon further inspection the injector had a bad seal so I replaced and good as new.truck starts amazing.



Adam


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