Nice job, I’ve never actually seen a glow plug in real life, it didn’t look like what I expected. Nothing better than being able to do a repair like that on your own, hopefully those lights all went out on the dash!
haha yeah - it took us quite a while to even locate them on the engine in the first place. theyre not where spark plugs usually are, and the glow plugs are always underneath something else. the thing that still boggles my mind is how the diesel shop we brought it to first managed to break one... youd have to be spectacularly hurried or not careful to break them - they're tough. only the broken one leaving its light on our dash now :)
Lisa & Josh spectacularly hurried is right, penetrant lubricant is they key to working on just about anything old (you should keep that can on board), but you have to give it time to work and the mechanic doesn’t get paid for waiting.
Ooh, also, at 250k miles you may want to strongly consider getting a scan gauge or ultragauge for both real time engine monitoring and in the fly code scanning when trouble does pop up. I’ve got on on my Land Rover because the temp gauge is unreliable but I have a feeling that Mercedes is probably better about that!
We replaced the 5 of them that we could, and we just left the broken one in the engine for now. We're going to get the special tools to extract it once we get back to the van and replace it ourselves later :) Doesn't do any harm just sitting in there, but still triggers the check engine light.
Folks are amazingly resourceful. No way I'd do this. I'm going to follow you for awhile.
Thanks so much! We love DIY, especially if it means we don’t have to pay $$$ :)
Nice job, I’ve never actually seen a glow plug in real life, it didn’t look like what I expected. Nothing better than being able to do a repair like that on your own, hopefully those lights all went out on the dash!
haha yeah - it took us quite a while to even locate them on the engine in the first place. theyre not where spark plugs usually are, and the glow plugs are always underneath something else. the thing that still boggles my mind is how the diesel shop we brought it to first managed to break one... youd have to be spectacularly hurried or not careful to break them - they're tough.
only the broken one leaving its light on our dash now :)
Lisa & Josh spectacularly hurried is right, penetrant lubricant is they key to working on just about anything old (you should keep that can on board), but you have to give it time to work and the mechanic doesn’t get paid for waiting.
Ooh, also, at 250k miles you may want to strongly consider getting a scan gauge or ultragauge for both real time engine monitoring and in the fly code scanning when trouble does pop up. I’ve got on on my Land Rover because the temp gauge is unreliable but I have a feeling that Mercedes is probably better about that!
Haha, you would think that. Wait for our next videos to see how wrong we both were about that same assumption lol
Those glow plugs need to be torqued to spec.
"Im looking at 4 different warning lights on our dash" #mercedeslife
Seriously! Wish we had known.
What did you guys end up doing with the broken plug?
We replaced the 5 of them that we could, and we just left the broken one in the engine for now. We're going to get the special tools to extract it once we get back to the van and replace it ourselves later :)
Doesn't do any harm just sitting in there, but still triggers the check engine light.
@@LisaAndJosh Thank you and good luck.
@@andrerabbani thanks, Andre!
Use an impact gun on low setting,
I'm pretty upset Kitty has never flown me anywhere
Take a number, girl! He's got some explainin to do.