Ok, so is the the low pressure(1.5 bar) oil cooler bypass is present in my US r107 560sl block? Is the thermostatic valve you mention a different one? What the service manual is telling me is that it's routing oil directly through the block to the filter and not the cooler until the oil is hot enough to flow easily through the cooler passages.

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