88 190d shut off lever staying down/ hard start

After I drive my 190D and shut It off,I noticed it has a hard time to restart sometimes.It has been like this for awhile now.After checking things out, I found that the stop lever on the injection pump stays down and takes a long time to come back up.Would this be a fault in the shut off valve?If i have someone hold the lever up the car starts right up.What would cause this to do that?

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