The parts prices seem high to me. A lot of the things listed wouldn't be needed for a stock rebuild.
Obviously(hopefully?), I won't need many of the components on that list. For example, when I helped
@Thewespaul pull the engine so we could install studs, freshen it up and and do a re seal, he commented on how clean and tight everything seemed. He went through the heads, checking the lifters, rocker arms, pushrods, lapping the valves and doing some mild porting. He installed new seals and Comp 910 springs while he was in there. We did the head gasket cooling mod and serviced the oil cooler, glow plugs and I'm sure that there are a bunch of other things that are slipping my mind right now, maybe Wes will chime in and remind me... Honestly, I'm really stumped and surprised at this malfunction... I've been super busy with other stuff lately but hopefully I'll get some time to move it to the shop so I can try to get a diagnosis of what took a dump. My plans are to pull the airbox so I can maybe hear better what's going on. Then I'll run it without the valve covers and finally do a compression test. If anyone has any suggestions for more/better diagnostics, by all means, please let me know.