What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Just skimming through saw the 2-n-1 shocker reference gotta like it.
Two in the pink, one in the stink, dos en el rosa, uno en el apestoso

 

Best way to enhance the shocker is to bring a taser for the other hand.

 

Ok. I had a pinhole sized leak in my drivers side cv axle. So I got a new one, and gonna reboot the old one, hold it for a spare, seeing as how this is an easy fix to a pretty obvious weak point. While I was in there, pulled the needle bearing and replaced it with the ecgs bushing. When all said and done, the vibration/whhhuooph noise were gone.
However. I may have dropped the puller piece from the removal tool into my front diff. After like 30 minutes or so, contemplating my abilities as a shade tree mechanic, and not giving up, I had the piece back in my hand.
So I stuffed a rag in there, fitted that puller, yanked the bearing, tapped the new one in (soaked in ice water), and went to replace my axle seal… which the dealer gave me the passenger side seal. Put it all back together, using the old seal, lost a bunch of oil today, went to three part stores, got the right seal + 2 qts gear oil and ripped it all apart and put it back together. Gear oil is rough, stinks so bad.
I can say the dealershit nonsense pisses me off but I’m kinda above that. Shoulda paid more attention to the part number, instead of relying on them. Gonna spray some simple green all up in there and give it a good hose down.
Best part…I got Biff’s car covered in shit.

 

Im in the same predicament. Driver side. Can't tell exactly where the leak is, but must be small. Waiting till I get time to install my lca's and knock it all out together. Can't decide if I wanna do what you're doing with new and keep old spare, or just reboot mine with the boot slide mod. Not that I really need it bc my angles are pretty good, but plan to raise her more at some point down the road.

 

All I know is my mileage (on the screen menu) went up a few mpg. ??

 

Looks like I won't be adding green raptor lights :/
Appreciate the heads up.

 

I thought about the boot slide too, looked at the wear pattern, and it seems fine. New cv axles aren’t cheap. So I feel like I have this piece of gold hanging out, all the extra parts I have kicking around this one is the most important.