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Old 04-22-2010 | 07:36 AM
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LoL @ the "twitching" Xair..

On the subject of the booted glow wire lead - just in case you don't know Vortex, take extra care when clipping the glowplug wire down onto the plug it you're using the standard JetJoe glowplug boot. It is extremely easy to push the whole silicone boot down too far and end up shorting the hot lead down on the plug base without even realising it. And if that happens, you can toast your FADEC (blow one of the controllers MOSFET's).

In fact, I was so worried about accidentally doing this, that I carefully pulled the boot back off the plug. Once I'd done that, I got a better appreciation of how the whole thing works. It's a pretty simple system, and when all goes well, the 'clip' pulls back just far enough to clear the diameter of the positive pole of the glowplug and then locks into one of the two small grooves cut into the pole. There's not a lot of room for error in this design, and it's really easy to miss the grooves on the pole and end up pushing the whole unit down too far so that it hooks onto the base of the glowplug, hence creating a short. If this happens, you'll know it pretty much straight away - your FADEC will die.

It's a really simple thing to get wrong without even knowing it - and it's pretty fatal.

Hope you get her sorted...

BJ