Gecko!
Thanks for chiming in, and the informative post. Long posts are the norm for me so have at it.
The turbo on the truck is an odd-ball, it's an 84 with an internal waste gate tc05 (likely a California emissions thing). I have a seized td04 that is going to be rebuilt along with the egr delete, exhaust, intercooler, gauges etc etc.
Not really looking to boost power as I don't really want to start fiddling with larger injectors or trying to get more fuel out of the California pump. I do have a federal pump but it needs a rebuild and that's not in the plan at the moment.
As far as the smoke thing;
Like you said, I don't expect to be smoke free but it was excessive. I even thought maybe it was due to the can causing increased valve cover pressure since it is baffled (due to old rings and increased blow-by when the turbo was spooled) forcing oil past the valve seals.
I'm not super concerned about it but it'd be nice to eliminate the oil from the intake before the rebuilt turbo and intercooler goes on.
On the performance side I'm already running a 4d56 head (due to my neglect of checking balance belts, that was an expensive mistake) but did not stud the block in lue of needing it back on the road and budget.
This truck is not a high performance build, more a tinker toy that I enjoy the hell out of driving (makes me laugh when I dress for labor work and get called a tweaker because of appearances). I may look into getting or making a tuff pan as I still need to do a transmission service since acquiring the truck (I think it'll help my shifting issues).
Beyond that it's mostly maintenance stuff, half shafts, steering rebuild, stuff like that.
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Originally Posted by Bjamin
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