Changing Ford Transit Glowplugs, WHAT A PITA!!!!

[Petrolhead_Rich]

Having a rant while I warm up and dry out from 5 hours spent servicing my van today, 4 of which was spent changing the bloody glowplugs.

Step 1, Remote the EGR valve (yeah, M6 bolts that have been heated and cooled for 9 years and are rusty as hell, yeah that didn't happen...
Step 2, Remove the ENTIRE INLET MANIFOLD;

As you can see The EGR valve is still there, and the inlet manifold was pretty difficult to get out of that gap!

Step 3, remove the glow plugs, which in my case fell apart making that really easy too;


Bit of advice if you're thinking of doing your glowplugs before winter, get someone else to do it!

Oh and the engineer who designed that cylinder head, with the glowplugs there and the engineer who designed the inlet manifold that entirely covers them, coupled with the team that designed the transit bulkhead, need rounding up and shooting!

[gaz453]

I went through the same sort of thing doing glow plugs on a newer bmw 530d, a stupid idea having to remove the inlet manifold -_-

[GVK]

Petrolhead_Rich said:

Oh and the engineer who designed that cylinder head, with the glowplugs there and the engineer who designed the inlet manifold that entirely covers them, coupled with the team that designed the transit bulkhead, need rounding up and shooting!

Tell you who is a good bloke though.

The bloke that made the scuttle panels easily removable for jobs like this.