[wixthedog]

The day started out strong!

I was able to replace the front coil springs without any drama, it sure was nice breaking everything apart since I was just in about 6 months ago. Everything came apart so easily! I took out the 2" drop springs and installed 1" drop springs. Hard to tell what the result is without the weight of the engine/front clip and they'll need to settle. I'll hang onto the 2" drops until I know I'm happy.

I then moved on to the seeping rear differential cover! I got everything lined up and ready to remove bolts and I saw what the culprit was, one of the bolts was missing at the 7 o'clock. Not missing, sheared off. Not just sheared off, but sheared off with an extractor already sheared off inside of it. Ugh.

Not much I can do about that so I cleaned everything up and will go ahead and install the cleaned and painted cover with the empty bolt hole. Worst case I got rid of the nasty mud oil that was inside of it...

I'm picking up the gasket set for the SM465 this afternoon and will continue working away.