Thanks, Rob. In the interest of keeping posts trimmed I try not to
repeat myself. In my initial post, and a couple after that, I said that
the van only has the cold start problem at the first start of the day.
From then on, no problem, even after it's been sitting for a few hours.

On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 11:17 -0700, Rob wrote:

> That's 55 degrees F, that's cold and you know it starts well when
> cold, drive it & warm it up to when you have the start problem and
> test it then.
>
> Rob
> becida@comcast.net
>
> At  6/6/2011 10:50 AM,Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
> >Reads 3.4K ohm @ 13 degrees C, which is smack dab in the middle of the
> >expected correct reading per figure on Bentley page 24.19.
> >
> >So I must look elsewhere for cause of trouble.
> >
> >On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 13:59 -0400, David Beierl wrote:
> >
> > > At 01:22 PM 6/5/2011, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
> > > >Stupid thing. I already replaced it once, about four years ago. What's
> > > >up with that part? Lousy design?
> > >
> > > Good to have a spare, even though the 1.9l ones cost more than the
> > > 2.1l.  But certainly no harm to unplug/replug, exercise the
> > > connection.  And to get more information, before you do that wait
> > > overnight then unplug the ECU and do the resistance check on 24.20,
> > > third step.  If you get a reading at that plug that's within spec for
> > > the temperature (see previous page) it would suggest TII is not the
> > > problem.  If it's out of spec, check/clean connection at sender, see
> > > if that fixes.
> > >
> > > Yrs,
> > > David
> > >