As a few have read and helped... summary... I just cannot produce any heat out of the motor over 130*F
Long story short I changed and pretty much tried everything but parked it till spring.

I have a new theory on what the problem might be...?

I always felt a little low on power compared to my buddies 240d so I advanced the injection a little and got what I thought was significant increase. Still not as fast as his car but much better for me. I used the bubble method ( blow in the tube) tpo what I felt was to spec.
81 240D 130k miles , great compression, well taken care of car by po. Always serviced and valve adjust done recently.

My question..

could the IP timing be off so much that I am losing heat and power thru compression or exhaust stroke as to not have the complete cumbustion at the right timing? ... hence the power goes out the exhaust .. does this make sense to anyone?


thanks

bennett