Time to Get Dirty

Well, I finally received the rest of the parts I ordered. It was essentially all the items I noticed that needed to be replaced while buying the vehicle. Everything from roundels to exhaust hangers.

The first thing I decided to knock off the list was the exhaust hangers. They were literally low hanging fruit and after replacing them the car sounded much quieter.

New on the left, old on the right

After I was done with that I removed the rear underpanel which connects to the bumper. I'm going to realign the bumper down the road and needed to remove a part of it anyways to get to the exhaust hanger bolt.

I dumped the fluid from the differential. The oil looked brand new. I'm quite happy about that. I replaced the existing fill and drain plugs with the updated plugs. I didn't replace the fluid since I'll be pulling the rear cover to upgrade the differential bushing later this week.

While waiting for the differential fluid to finish draining I started to check the passenger side half shaft. I knew it was replaced, but was going to check anyways. I couldn't get the damn thing off the differential. I'm going to assume that this is what a half shaft should feel like with new grease in the boots.

I decided to leave the driver's side half shaft for tomorrow night since I didn't feel like getting a plethora of extensions to remove all the bolts in the inner half shaft.

Last and not least I finally put the front up on jack stands.

 I checked out where the oil leak was coming from and it actually appears to be coming from the drain bolt. The Previous Owner had mentioned the shop that did the oil change last reused the old washer. I started the engine up and let it warm up a bit. I'll see if it is still coming from there tomorrow. If so I'll replace the oil and use a new drain bolt and washer.

Everything to night was done at 135,538.