I'm not sure if this idea has been posted before..if so reply with a link.

Sure this applies to people living in warmer climates..sorry folks in the cold.

Can the glow plugs be disabled..fooled.bypassed..
fooled.. I actually thinking about making a resistor block and plugging the glow plug harness into it. this way the ECU thinks it turning on the glow plugs, when needed, but is on turn on some large( high W) resistors. think light bulbs.55w or 130w..cheap and easy to get.
is there something in the cylinder that indicates temperature. I know there are 2 on the intake, but these are before the glow plugs. unlike my Cummins the IAT senses the grid heaters..

why?
if they never turn on they'll never fail..

-dkenny

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For warmer temperatures, the glow plug is on for a very short time anyway. Probably most of the "wear" is from the longer burn times for colder weather (which you need and shouldn't disable) not from the short burn times of warm weather.

Shouldn't be hard to fab something
0.5 to 1.0 ohm - for 7 volts and only on for about a minute each time it starts.

personally I like them - I do find cold weather once or twice a year
I just wish we had the metallic instead of ceramic.

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I may be wrong about this. Seems the glow plug can stay on far longer than needed (programming) and thus during the summer, with the added temperature, it does the most damage.

I would like to see reprogramming (seems now in progress) and metal glow plugs.