[Bliss_Street]

Brothers, I must confess. I have been remiss in my taking of the photographs. We woke up Sunday morning and went to get a cup of yuppie coffee at Starbucks. That's where my wife mentioned that she needed a few more data points on her car. So we drove out to Chaocia to see the native American city there, of which only the mounds are left. Some pretty cool stuff, I recommend it highly if you are interested in our history. It has the largest earthen structure north of Mexico as well as an lunar calendar called Woodhenge.



The calendar alone was worth the drive, imo.

The various paints arrived yesterday, and I shirked my duties, mainly because of the rain and overgrowing lawn/garden. This late in August things should be dead.



But I got the passenger side brakes reassembled. Then I pulled the driver's side axle out and tore apart the brakes, cleaned them, painted them and reassemble them as well.





I punched out the wheel studs, cleaned up the rotors and outer plate. Primed and painted them.



Gently laid out the outer gaskets, held in place with bolts (which are the wrong way around, I know, but they are there only for alignment), lowered the brake assemblies down and set them aside.



Tomorrow I will remove the bushings on the differential and finish getting it cleaned up. Hopefully that will be relatively fast and I can get the first coat of anti rust primer on it. At noon I have to run up to the parts store to get the new studs and lug nuts. I'll pick up some gear oil and some POR 15 while I'm out. Thursday I'm hoping to replace the pinion seal and then get it all buttoned up. Hopefully I'll get the control arms ordered and the bushings for the differential, which would allow me to get it all back under the car next week.

Insha'allah, as they say.