My $3 harness repair

amit9

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Oct 7, 2004
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Toronto/Scarborough
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The outside temp were good today so I decided to work on my car.

The boots in the glow plug harness were falling apart. The bullet connector in one boot had widened up and would not make good contact with the glow plug tip. That was giving me a P0672/P0674 code every 2-3 days. :mad:

So I came up with this idea of repairing it. I got 4x 3/8" hose clamps from Princess Auto. The cost was just over $3. I took the harness out, put the hose clamps on the boots and tightened them around 1.5 inches up from the base. Then I re-installed the harness. The hose clamps are (I hope ;)) squeezing the bullet connectors to make good contact with the glow plug tips. Now I'm not getting any glow plug codes.

Here's what the setup looks like:


I also noticed that the fuel line from the IP needed to be changed, so I did that too.
 
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