I must admit that I haven't found a "cold start valve" on my "84 vanagon
waterboxer"  nor a cold start injector? Please excuse my ignorance, I don't
even find it in the Bently except under "air cooled" .  I 've never had the
"privalege" of working on a watercooled vw before so I am a little green
here! I can bring the diesel back from the dead or the air cooled for that
matter. But I'm running out of hair to pull out with this one. I did take
the suggestions that I've recieved thus far, I checked to make sure the
contacts were clean on the ecm, which I just installed last weekend, but I
did double check anyway! I'm still trying to get it going! And to answer the
other question yes I did a compression check before I started this whole
project, and if I remember right it was ok pretty even all the way across ,
and yes the wires are on right, 1-4-3-2 and they start #1 on the mark on the
edge of the dist. I didn't look to see if this was about 4  o'clock or not,
but I guess it would be right around there! Thanks for the input so far! Tom