Marshall Booth wrote:
<SNIP>
Low compression is the most common cause in situations with all of the
symptoms you have, but if heat from the block heater (it DOES work
doesn't it?) should make starting faster. Heat is unlikely to improve a
fuel problem.
Marshall
I seem to have fallen asleep before I finished what I was saying in the
next to last sentence.....
...if heat from the block heater doesn't doesn't improve things, then it
isn't likely valve ADJUSTMENT - tight valve adjustment IS heat
sensitive. Burned valves or poor valve seating isn't nearly as heat
sensitive.
Marshall
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Marshall Booth (who doesn't respond to unsigned questions)
"der Dieseling Doktor" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
'87 300TD 182Kmi, '85 190D 2.0 161Kmi, '87 190D 2.5 turbo 237kmi, '84
190D 2.2 229Kmi (retired)