Cold start has little OR nothing to do with the idle valve..

Cold start is related to coolant temp effect on the current flow to the EHA.

Measuring current flow to the EHA with a DMM set to Ma, and measuring that signal with key on & engine OFF is the starting point. MUST have 20Ma in that position.

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