Opel Vectra B

since 1995 of release

Repair and car operation



Vektr B. Opel
+ 1.1. Governing bodies and control devices
+ 2. Maintenance
+ 3. Engines
+ 4. Heating, ventilation
+ 5. Fuel system
- 6. Systems of start, ignition
   + 6.1. Charging system
   + 6.2. Start system
   + 6.3. Ignition system
   - 6.4. System of prestarting heating of diesel engines
      6.4.1. Introduction
      6.4.2. Technical characteristics
      6.4.3. Glow plugs
      6.4.4. Elements of system of prestarting heating of 1,7 l
+ 7. Transmission
+ 8. Brake system
+ 9. Running gear
+ 10. Body
+ 11. Electric equipment
+ 12. Main malfunctions


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6.4.3. Glow plugs

Removal

ENGINES OF 1,7 L

PERFORMANCE ORDER
1. Remove a weight wire from the accumulator. For improvement of access disconnect a hose of ventilation of a case from a back part of a cover of a head.
2. Unscrew the nuts, giving of tension fixing the tire to glow plugs, and remove the tire from glow plugs.
3. Unscrew glow plugs.

ENGINES OF 2,0 L

PERFORMANCE ORDER
1. Remove a weight wire from the accumulator. For improvement of access remove a pipe, connecting a turbonagnetatel and a collector.
2. On early models unscrew the nuts, giving of tension fixing the tire to each glow plug (to a photo at the left), and take the tire of giving of tension (a photo on the right).
3. On later models disconnect from glow plugs electric sockets.
4. Unscrew glow plugs from a head of the block of cylinders.

Check

Check each glow plug on existence of mechanical damages. The burned or destroyed tips of a glow plug can be from a bad stream of dispersion of fuel a nozzle. If there is such damage it is necessary to check and if necessary to replace fuel nozzles.

If glow plugs have no mechanical damages, check their electric resistance which owes a life less than 1 Ohm.

Operability of candles of an incandescence can be checked, submitting on them 12 volts. Thus they should heat up evenly and for a demanded interval of time. Thus it is necessary to observe precautions:

To hold a glow plug a special clip or flat-nose pliers.

The electric power-supply circuit of a glow plug should have the fuse.

After check the glow plug should be cooled within several minutes.

The glow plug in a good condition heats up to reddening of a working konik within 5 seconds. At longer heating or heating in an average part, instead of on the candle end the candle is faulty and is subject to replacement.

Installation

Installation is made in sequence, return to removal.