Finally I have some real progress to report.
I replaced the turbo after going in to fix a leak from one of the exhaust manifolds. While in there I took a peak at the turbo..... I found some chips off of the fins. whatever it had for a thrust bearing decided to take a vacation and let the impeller travel into the housing...... it didnt blow up but it was probably very close. And then I did glowplugs and found that the passenger side manifold was also leaking. Both manifolds were erroded away at the mating surfaces so they both got replaced. I found that unbolting the right body mounts and the fan shroud made life much easier.
Then with the swap all mocked up and ready to go it was time to get rid of the parts truck.
If you look close the loaders rear tire lifted off the ground a couple times.
And then the exciting stuff started.
The exhaust is a little close, I will probably set up a heat shield to protect the tcase mount and try to massage a little more space between the pipe and mounting plate.
A friend was kind enough to let me put my truck up on a lift to drill all the holes for the radius arm and tracbar brackets. They went on in about 2 hours, (8) 1/2" grade 8 bolts holding each radius arm bracket on. 7 bolts for the tracbar bracket.
And then I started on thursday morning cutting out the old axle and bolting in the new one.