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You mean I've been putting egg salad on terminals for years for nothing?
Seriously I just use grease.
Fire and Whiskey? Hey Rich, if you want to get s#!tfaced it's supposed to stay around 0 every night through next weekend!
Rich says:”I didn't bother with the GPs on mine since I have no need of them in the tropics.” Show off! It was 0 here the other morning
It is possible you were starting on one good plug, that the other two had gone bad over time. Now there's nothing to get the engine spinning.
I agree with Tommy. If you have that stuff all pulled, if it wasn't the battery something would be getting awful hot.
Technically it is not an ignition switch but a start switch, since there is no ignition. But you are correct, since it would be impossible to leave the switch in the glow plug position, leaving it in the on position should do nothing more than drain the battery. And unless it somehow burned out the switch (unlikely) it would have nothing to do with the glow plugs.
It is kinda oddball, almost a home made CV joint
. I did see somewhere a fellow made 2″ pins to replace the balls as they stayed in place much better. But he was a machinist with all the toys and knowledge to do the job. I just can't justify the time and money involved in making the driveshaft and yokes and all to replace the stock unit on something that doesn't even reach 10 mph.I wouldn't over think this part. The balls falling out or the clip breaking is a way of saving the front differential and/or the transfer case.
Hans, above the fuel pump gear cover is your water pump, it has a pulley on it ran off a belt, your fan is bolted to it. Behind that pulley is a bearing pressed into the pump that the shaft rides in, it has a seal behind it. When the seal blows coolant gets into the bearing, and a hole is provided in the pump housing for coolant to escape to tell you coolant is getting to the bearing. It's the water pumps way of telling you it needs to be rebuilt or replaced. All cars and trucks used to be built this way, 99% still are. Some have electric pumps now for performance or mileage reasons.
