 Well guys, it's Christmas Eve and back here in the shop working on the Duramex, not because I have to, but because I want to get you guys some awesome content and because it's JRC54's fault. He's the one who conned me into having to replace my glow plugs because I said I would. And I did say that I would on the last video, so this is kind of a continuation of that video. We're going to be doing glow plugs today in the old Duramex, and we're going to be replacing the fuel filter, get you guys a little bit of know-how on how to do that. Stay tuned. Step one, have a lifted truck. If you don't have a lifted truck, then you're going to have to take your front wheels off to get the inner fender liner out. Not so much fun, but you know what, I have a lifted truck, so I don't have to do that. So get out the front inner fender liners. We've got about 10 little clips that we're going to have our little pry tool for, and we have about three 10 millimeter nuts inside the fender well too. Get it out. Then there's also going to be a couple of push bin speed sensors that have their wiring wired in here behind there. Make sure you pry those out too. There we are. Now that we have our inner fender drop, Magic Presto, we have access to all of our glow plugs in here. Pretty fancy, right? So at this point, some of you guys are definitely going to want to be spraying in some PB Blaster, because not everybody's truck is like mine. It was a California truck that has under 100,000 miles. So we're going to give these things a little preliminary spray down, and then we're going to be taking the wires off of these. There's an 8 millimeter nut holding the wire to each one of these glow plugs. So 8 millimeter to take those nuts off. There we go. Literally just cracked them all loose, and like I said, I'm lucky enough in my situation on these to where they're so crust free that I can just spin these nuts off my hand right now. And then the glow plug wire hangs out right there. So next, to get the physical glow plugs out, you are going to need a 12 millimeter socket, a little extension will help you to break the glow plugs loose. I got this guys, I'm professional. Just kind of broke free now, and spin them all out by hand. Like I said, I'm not replacing these because any of them are broke, but because I like to do things before they happen to go bad on me and with this thing hitting 100,000 miles, it probably never been replaced, and it's a good time to right now. So here's our glow plug, got a little bit of white hot tip residue on it. So they don't look horrible, but we're going to get all these out, and we're going to get our new ones here in just a second. So now I've got a really quick test here for you guys. I got a couple of glow plugs, one of which I know that is bad. So we're going to take a standard jump box, we're going to put our ground cable just on the case outside of the glow plug, and then our positive is going to touch right here in the end. You can see your glow plug tip, heat up nice and glowing hot, that glow plug is a good glow plug. Then, this one, this one, no heat o' up-oh. So it don't work, jump, glow plug. That's how you guys can test them pretty easily, just got to get them out. Now the new ones that we've got going in today are our AC Delcos, the part number on that one is going to be, get a little focus here, ACD, they're just 9Gs, AC Delcos. And then there's the GM part number as well. These things out of the case. There is our standard glow plug. Now what we're also going to be doing is we're going to make sure to add a little bit of anti-seize to the threads here before we get them put in. That is going to keep them from having any seizure issues if they ever need changed out ever again. So we're going to dab a little bit on there, get them put back in the block. There we are. Now that we've got them all put in there by hand, we need to torque them down. Torque spec on these is going to be 13 foot-pounds. Don't over-torque them guys, there we are. All torqued down to 13 foot-pounds. Thanks to our nice snap-on, 3-eighths drive tech angle wrench. This thing is a great buy. If you guys don't have one, I'd recommend getting one especially for doing all these little jobs that require exact torque. Need to torque things down right. Next while we're in here, we're going to be removing our fuel filter and changing that out. So we've got a big pair of channel locks, disconnected our whiff sensor, water and fuel sensor, and I like to take that one out while this is still in the vehicle just because it comes out easier when someone's holding the filter for me and I don't have to put the filter in a bite, a bite, a bite bench, a vice bench on the vice to hold it to get it out later. And you're going to make a little mess. Yep, just like that. Now for our filter removal, just got a regular large oil filter wrench. Give her about two turns, should be loose enough to come out. Just like oil filters guys, these things don't have to come out super, if you put on super tight to seal everything, they should seal nicely on there. So there's our fuel filter, going to put our new one, same AC Delco back up on there. And like I said, for reinstallation, we do have an AC Delco part number TP's 3018. New part, same part, also comes with two O-rings, the large ones for the top of your fuel filter, and the smaller one there is to replace your O-ring on the whiff sensor. Connect our whiff sensor, look at that, guys we are all done with this side. Now we're going to go over to the other side. So on this side, everything is not quite so wide open. Now don't let it, you know guys, get you down. These wiring harnesses, they just kind of lift out of the way, and then you can see mostly what we're doing here, we've got one glow plug there, one glow plug is going to be there in the back, then there's a third one, there behind the steering column, and then the fourth one is going to be right over here behind the intercooler pipe. That one you should be able to get to with a couple of swivels and or a wrench. The one behind the steering shaft there, that one's a different story. That one you're going to need to take the intermediate shaft of the steering shaft loose, which is that bolt right there, that one right there, you have to take that one off, and then you're going to slide your steering shaft down to get access to that number two glow plug right there. Really not that bad, just one extra thing you got to take off guys, not that bad at all. Now before all you hot rods get to put in those inner fenders back in, you got to remember you got to bleed this brake system. We still want to check for fluid leaks in the fuel system. So here at our top little fuel area, there is a bleeder valve, fly heads screwdriver, we're going to break that loose, break that loose, and for you know guys like me that don't have a lift pump, now we get to push the button. This is going to pull a vacuum up in the top of the system and pull some of the fuel into that fuel filter and fill it up. So now that we've got fuel coming out of our bleeder there pretty nicely, we have bled all of our fuel, and now we need to tighten back up a little set screw. Tighten that back up, and now we're going to start it and check to see if we have any leaks. Did I tell you what or did I tell you what? That really wasn't that hard of an installation. Now I know you guys with rust are going to have a little bit more in the way of issues, but just think ahead guys, take some penetrant oil, be spraying these things down ahead of the time, you know a couple days in advance so you get some heat cycles going through, get that penetrant oil working to break those things loose so you don't have broken off glow plugs in your heads. That's never fun for anybody. Well that's about all I have for you guys today. If you like the gear that I'm wearing right now, this comes from Allstance Mafia and a group called 7. They're over on Instagram, I will be sure to put a link to them down in the description below. They've got some pretty cool gear and they feature some really cool trucks like my Duramax over there. They got some pretty cool stuff, go and check them out. I really appreciate what everybody has been doing for me on the channel. 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