Ok, so while in the middle of this, I started chasing a vibration and growling coming from the white 80. I have a separate thread that goes into my diff swap adventure.
https://risingsun4x4club.org/xf/threads/driveline-vibes-pinion.31674/
Long story short I stole even more parts (front diff and steering knuckle) off the green 80 to make the white 80 whole. Then I had to get all the parts pulled together and put the green 80 back together. Upshot is that I needed to fix the leaky front pinion seal anyway (oil mess in pictures below). While I was in there I also did all new tie rod ends, which have been seized for at least 10 years.
But emissions was due in December and with January as my grace period, I pushed hard and got everything back together. Once the drivetrain and axle stuff was buttoned up it was actually very fast to finish up the turbo part of the project, at least to get it running again.
Had to drive to Scott’s with a 2” gap/offset from my new turbo to the old exhaust, which about did me in with CO, and my engine was super not happy since the O2 sensor was not getting good readings, but had him give me a whole new pipe all the way back, using my cats and muffler since they are still good.
A couple days after I got it back together I took it for a drive and boost got a little high and poof! All the sudden it started running with no power and almost stalling and fuel was pegged on rich. Turns out the charge pipe had popped off due to a bad hose clamp, and there was no longer a connection between the MAF and the engine. So what I felt was limp mode. Thankfully it was something simple but freaked me out because I had never experienced that before.
Actuator doesn’t seem to do anything-I think it’s bound hard on the turbine housing because of the lack of clearance with the block/oil cooler, which is causing it too much resistance to open. So I’m going to need to pull if back off at some point and figure out an alternate bracket solution or something. But for now it drives nice and I just have to watch the boost gauge and keep it from going to 11-mostly
Next up I still have to do the spark plugs, but more immediate I need to replace brake hoses and flush the brake system. And then put the new coil springs on it.