Which fuse did you remove? I'll look up this code, I'm not too familiar with the newer diesel setups, it's not often I see them, but the glow plug was usually used at cold start up, since a diesel doesn't have a spark plug and relies on very high compression pressures and heat to ignite the air fuel mixture, I would assume that once the engine is hot enough ignition will start in that cylinder. The reason it's a two out of three severity is because of the exhaust system, and the DPF, which is the diesel particulate filter and the oxidation catalytic converter. These can be damaged if raw fuel is entering the exhaust due to cylinder misfires. This is the same on a gasoline engine. A cylinder misfire causes the unburn oxygen and fuel to exit the cylinder and because of the temperatures of the converter this air fuel mixture will cause the converter substrate to melt down into one solid ball and block off the exhaust. Or the substrate breaks apart and ends up everywhere throughout the exhaust, either way it's a catastrophic failure. The only other thing you can do is to unplug the fuel injector to that cylinder, and you'll be running on seven cylinders instead of all eight.
I guess it depends on how long you'll be driving the truck tomorrow. My other concern would be damage to the glow plug driver module. A circuit pulling too much current can fry a driver for that circuit, same as a fuel injector. So those are the risks.
These are high voltage fuel injectors too and require a disconnect tool to unplug the electrical connector, so that does not look like an option.
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Thursday, October 13th, 2022 AT 3:32 PM