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Re: cummins 4b-3.9 cold start system
Posted to HD/Fleet Forum on 10/29/2005

Terry,

These engines don't use a glow plug system. Cummins as far as the ones I used to work on never had a glow plug system in the heads. They mostly used an ether start system. Now the newer engines may have gone to a glow plug but all the 3.9s I worked on... Login to read more.