Well it's a little early for halloween. Didn't mean to scare you like that. I have never had this difficult a time with an engine. But I must admit it is the first diesel that I have owned and worked on. I work as an aircraft mechanic and I use manuals faithfully.

All said I now have the engine rebuilt.............again

Replaced the failed transmission pump with a used unit

The engine and trans are back in the car..........again

I still need to replace the trans filter and install the new oil filter.

I am going to use the original radiator as the two year old unit that I purchased new 2 years ago has failed..............

I have traced the entire vacuum system and will disable the turbo when I do start this engine.

Please check out my other thread titled "knock knock" for pictures of the latest breakdown and rebuild.

you can come out from under the bed now, the boogie man is leaving the building.

cheers,

Ed