Glow Plug Woes

Nicksacco

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Equipment
Kubota L35 TLB, 2014 RTV-1140CPX
Sep 15, 2021
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Bahama, NC
The other day I removed my injectors from the RTV for testing (more on that later).
After replacing them and spilling a little fuel on the glow plugs from priming the system, I noticed some bubbles on a glow plug below where it connects to the electrical buss.

Obviously there is a seal failure in the glow plug so I'll be replacing all 3 ASAP.

I'm sure there's some compression loss - I haven't tested that, but I thought I'd post this so y'all would be aware glow plugs can go bad and leak compression.