60G's Self Limiting

[fonecop1]

I was reading a post the other day and someone mentioned that the 60G glow plugs are self limiting. Can some of you confirm this? I just installed the manual glow plug override and I don't want to burn them up with too much glow time.

Thanks in advance.

 

[bk95td]

Yes they are self regulating. They do take longer to heat up than previous glow plugs did but won't swell or burn out from increased glow time. Bosch dura-therms are supposed to be even better.

 

[chrisk1500]

Dura-term plugs are self regulating along with 60G plugs.....

 

[gmctd]

On the 'Page, our father-forum, a new 60G was connected to a fully-charged 12v battery, with attached battery-charger to maintain full charge, for 8 hours - the plug glowed brite orange\yellow over the full interval, no swelling, no deterioration, no lessening of intensity along the length of the probe - only problem with the 60G plug is the slow-heat property, requiring extended glow-time - that test was extreme, as the oem fusible-wire glow-harness is spec'ed to drop applied voltage down to ~10v at the plug terminal, aiding and abetting the extended glow-time requirement

 

[vail426]

I did the manual glow plug over-ride with 60G's 2 months ago and all is good. Starts great.