E300 turbo,ultimate diesel or bad joke?

[Carleton Hughes]

Here we go again folks! as some of you recall my '98 E300 turbo would exhibit disturbing symptoms when starting from cold,about a mile down the road I would lose power and dissolve in a cloud of white smoke but would eventuall overcome this and run well.
One day as mentioned in my previous posts it got to the point where Check engine light and engine electronics warning came on.

I bought a code reader,it told me the MAF sensor was bad,I replaced it with a new one,ran perfectly afterwards for one day,this morning on the second day it started acting up again,you guessed it,a mile from my house...........wife was pissed as she was late for work,talked about buying a new Toyota,this time I did not argue.

No codes this time,just like when it began doing this a year ago intermittently.

What am I missing,I got new O rings,prefilter,fuel return lines,no vacuum leaks,EGR is clean and works,any tricky relays that wouldn't throw a code?

Don't get me wrong,I love the car but I'm about ready to have a coronary over this overly complex nonsense.