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Appendix: if you got here because you've no keys that can make the transponder ECU work, instead of removing the system, find a better locksmith familiar with transponder chips and their documented flaws.

So after all that, if your 1996 diesel is cranking but refusing to start, it's almost certainly the transponder immobiliser either not reading the chip or some power gremlin to that system. If the solenoid was then revealed by removing this Bosch cover, one would still need to think how to...

Salvage units appear to have some circuit under this cover. I'm betting the signal from the transponder computer is binary to this item, which then decides to pass voltage to the solenoid it is hiding. Otherwise you'd just be able to tap one of the three wires to get it to start which would make...

They look to be just an armour cover that looks conductive, and not a fuel solenoid itself Bosch Steuergerät Magnetventil 0281005002 , 9947151 , 0 281 005 002 | eBay - [Leaving Land Cruiser Club]

These Bosch units seem to be called a similar thing 'BOSCH ANTI-THEFT SOLENOID CONTROL VALVE' https://dieselpartsdirect.co.uk/bosch-anti-theft-solenoid-control-valve-0281005046-genuine-unit.html So is it just a dumb voltage wire to a solenoid or what?

So fairly sure it's to do with T22 Transponder Key Computer via Pin 10. Pin 11 to the ECU appears to only apply to Petrols (*12). And the only input the fuel cut valve gets (which I think is the name for the armoured thing) comes from the Transponder.

Yup, appears so. Here is the Toyota GB guide on how to fit TVSS. TOYOTA TVSS IIIB INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS MANUAL Pdf Download - [Leaving Land Cruiser Club] 2 and 5 are on by default, which relates to (via a Celica manual...