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Thanks for the info nb22 I thought $40 for head gasket was a bit cheap what about the head bolts any good.

Havent heard of any issues with them, have a set sitting there waiting for my engine to go together so cant say from personal experience yet sorry

dont think the new head has been taken off since rebuild steve, the head on the old motor was taken off to look at the injector washer/ heat shiel arangement
as the new head didnt have the injector heatshields from memory.

Ben my mistake it was the old engine you took the head off so that eliminates that as a problem.
I was under the hood this morning looking at the fuel pump with a work light I think it might be a bit to retarded in the timing if I can get at the 3 nuts with out to much drama im going to advance it a little bit there is a bit of a nock when its running.
If that's the problem and it fixes it I will be wrapped freezing out side i will wait for it to warm up a bit in the sun before I do anything.

the injectors were rebuilt by MTQ (darwin), following your phone call earlier this week about the position the injector was installed (180 out?)...
I wonder if it has damaged it (tip, heatshield).
If the new (chinese) turbo was rooted, would that it smoke at idle? or just on boost?

I don't know about the injectors could of been the turbo is good I didn't do the 2 bolts on the oil return pipe up tight enough DOH' I moved the pump outwards a bit run like a bucket of bolts.
Turned the pump in ran a bit better and bit of white smoke turned it in a fraction more and adjusted the fuel delivery screw a few times adjusted the idle screw no more smoke and is idling a lot better and no smoke when I rev her out.
Have to get a boost gauge on it now see what's it boosting hopefully this might of fixed it fingers crossed.

I took a couple of photos see if I can up load the tail pipe is with the engine idling Ben.
Tried to do a video with the camera didn't work might have to use my phone.

I wouldnt be complaining about that amount of smoke

No complaints at all geeves and it starts first turn of the key now the other day turn the key had to give the pedal a few pumps after glow plug on 3 times ran rough as guts for a few minutes tons of smoke as well even idling got it at 750 rpm now at idle.

Glad you could save it steve.
in 2014 the mrs & I dropped alot of $$$$ & time into it, good to see it only cost ya some sweat/skin & beers