Installing a glow plug dash light on 2010 GC2400

[Dmacleo]

anyone try this on a GC24xx series?

GC Series Owner Upgrades And Modifications

Please post any upgrades or modifications you have done to your GC, which you think other GC owners would be interested in doing. I will start with 2 I have done. The first is the addition of a glow plug light for early models that do not have one. When you energize the glow plugs, the...

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see below. mine has bulb, dash display, no wiring from plugs to dash.

 

[Dmacleo]

huh my dash has a LOT of unused bulbs in it, you shine light through and stuff like 4wd engaged sign, glow plug sign, 2 pinkish battery signs,headlights on sign, 4ways engaged sign.....yet the wiring schematic and electrical section of service manual do not mention them.

wonder if I can utilize that somehow.

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yeah I got a LOT of pins on dash that have lead to blank spots on the round wiring harness connectors. so I think I will find what pin the glow plug light uses and insert a pin connector into the round dash connector and run wire to the buss for plugs.

 

[ray66v]

You mean they STILL don't have a glow plug light???

 

[Dmacleo]

You mean they STILL don't have a glow plug light???

mine is a 2010 GC2400.
I know 2021 GC1725M DOES have it and I BELIEVE the 2020 and 2021 GC1723 has it, I just cannot remember.
just odd how mine has (iirc) 5 bulbs sitting behind labeled "lenses" with all the circuitry down the the round multi pin connector YET the tractor side of connector only has 3 or 4 pins in use on each side. ground, right turn/4way, oil (iirc) on right connector and ground, left turn/4way, battery on left side connector.

should be faily easy to find what pin on the board goes to the bulb I want then just put an insert into the tractor side connector and run wire to the buss connector. would fuse it to be safe of course.

 

[MF RED in MT]

This is what I did for the glowplug lights on my 2009 GC2410.

See post #3 of the "GC Series Owner Upgrades And Modifications"

#1) My first best cheap upgrade to list is because of ray66v great idea, and I urge everyone to INSTALL A GLOW PLUG ACTIVATION INDICATOR LIGHT to light up when the glow plugs are activated, .
I purchased a sealed 1/2" diameter red light from Napa and installed it in the dash near the emergency switch. I looked under the dash to make sure there was lots of room where I drilled the 1/2" hole with a flat style wood bit through the plastic dash. The location is approx 3/4" to the left of the emergency switch and approx 3/4" lower then the emergency switch, . I connected a red and black 20 gauge wire (enough plus a little extra to make my connections) with crimp style connectors and installed heat shrink tubing to the two black wires extending out of the back of the light. I then added a 1/4" slit wire loom covering over the two wires. I fed the wires and loom through the hole I drilled and pushed the light untill it was flush with the outside of the dash and made a label to identify the light "GLOWPLUG LIGHT". I connected the black wire to a grounding 1/4"-20 bolt with a crimp style connector along with heat shrink tubing near the back of the dash and the ground side of the battery (this bolt was installed for the horn ground I had installed at an eariler date). I then fed the red wire and loom and connected it the glowplug wire on the flat metal bus bar plate that connects all three glow plugs, again using a crimp style connector and heat shrink tubing, . Now I can "see the light" when the glow plugs are activated, :cool2:.

Hope this help you,

KC

 

[Dmacleo]

This is what I did for the glowplug lights on my 2009 GC2410.

See post #3 of the "GC Series Owner Upgrades And Modifications"

#1) My first best cheap upgrade to list is because of ray66v great idea, and I urge everyone to INSTALL A GLOW PLUG ACTIVATION INDICATOR LIGHT to light up when the glow plugs are activated, .
I purchased a sealed 1/2" diameter red light from Napa and installed it in the dash near the emergency switch. I looked under the dash to make sure there was lots of room where I drilled the 1/2" hole with a flat style wood bit through the plastic dash. The location is approx 3/4" to the left of the emergency switch and approx 3/4" lower then the emergency switch, . I connected a red and black 20 gauge wire (enough plus a little extra to make my connections) with crimp style connectors and installed heat shrink tubing to the two black wires extending out of the back of the light. I then added a 1/4" slit wire loom covering over the two wires. I fed the wires and loom through the hole I drilled and pushed the light untill it was flush with the outside of the dash and made a label to identify the light "GLOWPLUG LIGHT". I connected the black wire to a grounding 1/4"-20 bolt with a crimp style connector along with heat shrink tubing near the back of the dash and the ground side of the battery (this bolt was installed for the horn ground I had installed at an eariler date). I then fed the red wire and loom and connected it the glowplug wire on the flat metal bus bar plate that connects all three glow plugs, again using a crimp style connector and heat shrink tubing, . Now I can "see the light" when the glow plugs are activated, :cool2:.

Hope this help you,

KC

did you find yours HAD the glow plug dash light but not hooked up?
thats what I have, that and other things that are there just no wiring from tractor side to dash.
I may also hook up the lights on dash indicator.
no way I can do the 4WD engaged or PTO engaged (no real need....its easy to tell it is LOL ) lights as no switches in unit itself

 

[MF RED in MT]

I did not have any nonworking lights on my dash, MF must of started that in 2010.

KC

 

[Dmacleo]

I did not have any nonworking lights on my dash, MF must of started that in 2010.

KC

yeah I figured was a year issue and where yours a 2009 figured I'd ask to narrow that break point down.
when I get chance to do this I'll post the pins used.