Actually, the pics are from Stretch.

Yea.. my bad. Too long out in the 94 degrees today.

Stretch, no, my 12VDC reading is quite stable.

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1985 300D 198K sold
1982 300D 202K
1989 300E 125K
1992 940T

"If you dont have time to do it safely, you dont have time to do it"

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."

Phew I'm glad that's sorted out - I feel a bit like Christopher Columbus - as in someone who has found something - got the credit - but it is apparent to everyone else that lots of people have found it before!

The real credit goes to the chap who took the time to make that series of pictures.

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

Well I'm glad to hear it.

I do get the impression that you've somehow managed to fool the system into thinking the temperature is at a different level and so you get into a different mode of operation. I might have time today to investigate these systems further.

If you are happy with your fix then I guess that's it - and I don't want to cause trouble - but I would like to ask if you had gone through the tedious chapter in the FSM shown here =>

http://www.startekinfo.com/StarTek/outside/12264/Program/Engine/103/07.3-0121.pdf

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

No, I havent been thru all that, just the list in the 1st post of this thread.
Im not finished as Im waiting for a new sensor to arrive.

Just got shipping confirmation from the zoo

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1985 300D 198K sold
1982 300D 202K
1989 300E 125K
1992 940T

"If you dont have time to do it safely, you dont have time to do it"

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."

The zoo actually got the sensor to me today. Was able to slip a 22mm right over the old one and had it replaced in under 10 minutes.

Not perfect but far better.
By around 50C, the idle is down to acceptable.
Hopefully the tower and EHA adjustments will tweak it in.
I will also be replacing all the injector boots.

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1985 300D 198K sold
1982 300D 202K
1989 300E 125K
1992 940T

"If you dont have time to do it safely, you dont have time to do it"

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."