Thanks to Joel Walker, Terry Kay, Bill Davidson, Matthew Pollard, Jay
Snyder (pardon if I'm missing someone) for great help on my cold start
problem.  I'm underway with your advice and making some progress.

If you or any other listmembers have some insight and time to respond a bit
further, I'd greatly appreciate your kindness for that as well:

(1) I cannot discern any vibration or hum in my idle stabilizer valve, but
don't know whether to attribute that to a bad valve or too much rock & roll
guitar in past years, or too much engine sound.  How noticeable would this
be the vibes and hum in a healthy valve, not my deafness and loss of touch)?

(2)  I assume replacement of the temp 2 sensor at the thermostat housing
requires a complete coolant system drain.  Any shortcuts here (like quickly
& temporarily stopping up the sensor hole with something during the switch
to new sensor?)

(3)  On the throttle valve unit, there's a smaller arm and spring on top of
the rotating arm attached to the accelerator cable.  What does it do?  Mine
is sticky, doesn't rotate easily - basically stays wherever I put it by
hand, even with throttle movement (acceleration).  How is it supposed to
operate, and be adjusted?  Bentley has an adj. shown on 24.59 but I can't
decipher it.

Thanks again,
Jim Creech
87 Westy GL 2.1