Glow plugs for Listeroids

[veggie]

Found this site selling glow plugs (among other parts) for listers.
Anyone fitted glow plugs to their unit?

Look in the bottom right corner of this page...

http://www.generatorsales.com/order/lister-parts.asp

Veggie

[BruceM]

Veggie, I've got a VW plug in my 6/1.  (One of George's)  It works very well, cold AM starts are as easy as warm starts.  Warm up time is just a few seconds.
I highly recommend one unless you're in the Tropics.

Best Wishes,
Bruce M

[veggie]

Veggie, I've got a VW plug in my 6/1.  (One of George's)  It works very well, cold AM starts are as easy as warm starts.  Warm up time is just a few seconds.
I highly recommend one unless you're in the Tropics.

Best Wishes,
Bruce M

Thanks Bruce,
That's not a bad solution since I work a few blocks from a VW dealer.
Which year of VW TDI did you choose as the correct glow plug. (or does it matter ?)

Cheers,
Veggie

[veggie]

Jens,

Very good point. I do have access to our company's machine shop, but is does raise the question of which is better to have....the glow plug or the valve? I suppose each user has there own unique situation.

For long duration runs, I was told to start the engine at the high compression ratio and then once it's warmed up, stop the engine and turn down the compression to the lower value. Sound right?

Veggie

[XYZER]

I have never tried it but some have mounted them in the intake tube. I know heating the intake manifold with a propane torch works good!

[quinnf]

Until customers from the West started asking for them on these forums, Indian 'roids pretty much all had plugs in place of the COV.  I think the glow plug makes more sense for the reasons you state. 

When Listers were first designed in about 1930, Diesel technology was still cutting edge stuff.  Any innovation that was patentable could get a manufacturer nearly 20 years of protection.  Useful as the COV was, I think it was equally important that Lister have something that could set them apart from their competitors.  And I think the cold start valve was it.  The fact that nobody else bothered with one after the patent expired indicates that it wasn't really that much of an advantage.

When the 8/1 appeared in around 1952, it featured an aluminum piston, a chrome top piston ring and a plug where the COV valve was.

Quinn