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[firemoth]

Decided after much not starting my 2.2dti needs new glow plugs "here goes another simple job made impossible" I thought. So I had a look anyway, it looks incredibly simple. It can't be. A whole plastic cover and they're there looking at me on the left side (looking from standing at the front). I'm amazed. It can't be so simple!

(You may have guessed me and this car aren't the best of friends at the moment)

[henryd]

Get the engine good and hot before trying to remove them and go easy on them,its not unknown for them to snap upon removal

[firemoth]

Yeah I know they can be a pain for that in general but o meant in terms of access, other "simple" jobs are a pain. Like the fuel filter. I'm considering so that while I'm at it. Who knows why they put it there

I take it the glow plugs aren't particularly bad in an omega, you just meant plugs in general...? (I hope)

[henryd]

Yeah I know they can be a pain for that in general but o meant in terms of access, other "simple" jobs are a pain. Like the fuel filter. I'm considering so that while I'm at it. Who knows why they put it there

I take it the glow plugs aren't particularly bad in an omega, you just meant plugs in general...? (I hope)

It seems to be the long thin fine threaded plugs that a lot of car makers seem to use these days

[Webby the Bear]

Enter TB. He seems to have issues with glow plugs   

[firemoth]

Hell fire they are long! Must picked them up. On way home and doing them now. Engine should be nice and warm from the 50 miles I've just driven from work, to auto factors and home. Size might explain the cost. £35!!? Ones I got for my 405 were £20

[firemoth]

Right here goes nothing. Wish me luck!

[GastronomicKleptomaniac]

Best of luck! Big bar and smoothness is much better than short bar and brute force

[firemoth]

You know what's even better? If my 10mm deep socket hadn't grown legs. Can't find it anywhere no idea why it's not in my toolbox. I've got a stronger battery in for now. Take 2 tomorrow.....

(I think the car stole the socket to annoy me!)

[firemoth]

Well, I'm shocked. After going out and buying a socket (i got loads of different sizes ready for another going walkies lol) it took me all of 5 minutes to do them. None were stiff, and only burnt my hands on the turbo once. By far the easiest plugs I've ever done.

Bit of a concern, plug number 2 (counting from the front of the engine, opposite he gearbox end) is wet. I've had the car running for about an hour while I dropped my brother off and picked up bits and bobs, so if it's just a duff plug, I would've expected the heat of combustion to have dried it off. The other 3 are fine, just the usual sooty build up you'd expect. This isn't sign of head gasket is it? Car runs fine and doesn't smoke. Only smoke it gets is white smoke from unburnt fuel when it doesn't want to start from cold. Other than that all is well

[05omegav6]

Was it wet with water or diesel 

[firemoth]

Oops thought I'd said. It seems to be oil. Stains fingers like oil does, doesn't smell like diesel, don't lose coolant (well not since that auxiliary heater thingy miraculously fixed itself lol)

[05omegav6]

Was the seal intact on that plug when you removed it?

[firemoth]

What seal?

[05omegav6]

Presumably there is a seal of some description between the head and the glow plug

Unless the camcover gasket is starting to weep... not too many places to get oil onto a glow plug