The problem with smoking may lie with your turbo. A shaft seal on it may be leaking by some oil and dumping it in the turbine section and out the exhaust it goes. I have seen that before and I am not sure why I didn't think of that right away.
Wondered where is the switzerland trail at? I am also going to be joining you with being a justy owner very shorltly. Allthough the one I am getting does not run at the moment.
When I lived in Alaska I saw a nice little ea81 gl wagon that was used as a mail car and it had around 400k + on the original engine and going strong. That was in the early '90s though.
Your next best option would probably be to to a compression test on it to see the condition of your piston rings. The testers aren't terribly expensive either. They just screw into the spark plug holes.
Just something a little better flowing. The header that would work for the ea81t/ea82t would look really similar to the ones pictured above. I guess I was meaning more specifically of sending you the stock header/manifold.
Hey Connie,
If you want sent it my way. If I find a few more things that are bad on it I could just give you another weber and just go through yours and figure it out. Wouldn't charge you except for shipping.