Looking good Paul. Now lets go out and dirty them up.
I know, I know. The guy at the tire store asked me if I wanted tire shine on them
I had to take the front two and a half skid plates off to get to the front differential to fill it up. The axle came out on the broken strut side. I think I pulled it out by accident while working the old spring/broken strut out. The edge of the axle is pretty high above the fluid level so I didn't loose more than about 1/4 of the total volume. I pulled the skid plates off and beat some of the worst dings out of them and found my biggest hex wrench to open the differential up.
I figured while the skip plates were off I could rattle can them fresh. I went to my paint storage and found a can with a black cap and started painting. Afterward I put my glasses on and noticed the little bit of metal flake in the paint ... wrong paint can! So my first to skid plates are now black with really cool looking gold flake.
I put everything back together and tightened the skip plate bolts I hadn't been into. I want to put about a hundred miles on the truck prior to going off road. I'm going to a concert this weekend in LA and will put that much and more on it. I'll re-torque the strut and skid plate bolts.
Driving around town the KM2's sound a bit more quiet.