I thought about sacrificing a socket to the cause, but I'd prefer to reuse these functional lug nuts if at all possible. It's not completely off the table yet. The 7 point socket showed up today, looks to be the exact same OD as the 6 point that was too small, so I may end up trying to bribe a tech at the local tire shop if the thing doesn't fit.
Today I yanked the carpet and quickly realized that the excessive windshield goop did not fix the leak whatever PO layed it on was trying to solve.
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Passenger side has some too, but nowhere near this. This is pretty bad, lots of scaling here. Rust, the thing I hate the most. I'll bring out the angle grinder and everything I have for it to try and clean this mess up. The bottom of this floorpan? The same white that the General delivered it with. The ONLY way to know this was here was to have pulled this disgusting ass carpet for cleaning. I scraped some off and knocked on it and it didn't seem paper thin. I think the short term is to just make it drive with a seat bolted to a naked floor while I figure out what products I should be using to kill and seal the rust. There was no shortage of filth under the plastic door sill plate dealies or anywhere in general. There were a couple cross threaded and lightly corroded fasteners that initially made me nervous but they all came out. I'll chase those 2 problem holes, lube the bolts for reinstall, and it should go together easy peasy.
Next up was yanking the steering box that was pissing fluid like crazy out of the Pitman shaft. You can kind of see here how off center the Pitman shaft is as it exits the case.
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It was an absolute m'fer pulling the seals and washer from an assembled box that seems to have a shaft in there sideways. I ended up grinding the new washer down to fit in there without having to beat the crap out of it to get it back in there. It turns out whatever POS reman box this is didn't have the seal stack properly installed. The dust seal was installed outside of the snap ring and not retained by it like it should have been. I should note that the Pitman shaft did not show signs of being bent as the box made its rounds through its range of motion so I'm really not sure what to expect tomorrow in terms of whether or not it still leaks, I just hope it doesn't.