Well, dang. I just rebuilt the turbo < 2,000 miles ago.
Ugh!
I took the door skin off and found this:
The visible part of the lock was fouling on part of the metal containing this metal piece because of the wicked bend on it. With this piece removed the door was unlocking and locking normally- although I could hear a noise coming from the side with this issue...
I bent back the piece of metal and reinstalled it- door still seemed to work.
Figured this would be it and I would get off easy =) But once I put the door skin back on and reinstalled everything- the door won't lock again via the drivers side - it seems like the drivers side requires no effort to lock or unlock and the passenger side requires more effort than the vac system can dish out.
I can now manually lock and unlock the door with the key which had previously not been working, but the vac locking/unlocking stilll seems broken. =(