Traditional gasoline engines have spark plugs, but diesel engines have something a little different, called glow plugs. How many do you need for your diesel?

Diesel engines ignite the air/fuel mixture with heat generated by friction and compression, while gasoline engines use the heat caused by a spark from a spark plug. That's why diesel engines are ...

The odds are pretty good that your car doesn’t have glow plugs. Spark plugs, probably, but glow plugs are pretty much for diesels only—they’re used to introduce heat to the combustion chamber in ...

GM has issued a special coverage bulletin for certain units of the 2020 Chevy Silverado 1500 equipped with the 3.0L LM2 turbodiesel Duramax engine that may have been produced with a faulty glow plug ...

Cummins was founded by Clessie Cummins in 1919 and has been building reliable diesel engines for more than 100 years. Cummins engines are used in large trucks, buses, and leisure vehicles, as well as ...