It's Alive!!!
Finally, thanks to Dieselgeek the final piece of the puzzle arrived yesterday... and shortly after 5:30pm, it rumbled back to life!
Had my machine shop work their magic on the head (it was pretty bad), had to replace the rods and pistons (one was totally hammered, the other 3 were not exactly pretty), and it had a bent rod. Replaced the oil pump, drive chain and tensioner, rings, rod bearings, etc. too.
Had to put a different turbo on, as the original ingested a bunch of valve chunks, so I stuck a used one I had from a 2002 car on there, along with a new 11mm pump
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Still have to get new nozzles, the injectors in there are of unkown specification and likely dubious quality, I think they came out of a tooefed WVO engine, cannot remember. It is a little on the sluggish side, and the oil is super clean, so I am certain it is underfueling.
So now on to the rest of the project:
Rid it of the horrid Crapyears
replace the axle beam bushings that have pretty much walked off the job
install my new Bilstein HDs
replace the brakes with quality parts
replace the brake cables
left cooling fan is dead, gonna replace both along with the controller
get some headlights that actually work
install my skidplate
replace the driver door latch assembly
and give it a good cleaning
I am so excited!!!