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Noon yesterday I had to meet with a disability analyst. Now I get to wait and see if I stay on or have to fight for it. Oh boy.

Rest of the day spent working on the "new" truck. Replaced a door handle. Fixed the hood latch (OMG WE WERE ON THE FREEWAY WITH IT LIKE THAT?!?) Pulled a tail light and hammered on it's housing area so it fit flush again. Did a bunch of cleaning inside. Had a moment of "oh SHIT" when we noticed we couldn't see the VIN in the dash. It was just covered in filth.

Majority of the time tho I was working on the front bumper. Something had happened that tilted the bottom of it forward, so looking at the ends on the sides, they pointed downward, not straight back.

Pulled off the plastic skirt and then got my 10 ton hydraulic jack and lifted the front of the truck under each end of the bumper, basically bending the mounts backwards. Took about 3 hours but now when you look at the bumper you have to look close to notice it's not perfectly straight.

Also ordered a complete fuel filler line assembly, a Torx socket set with the Torx 55 I'll need to break the bed bolts loose, and some PB Blaster in case the bolts don't wanna break loose. Figure it won't take me but a couple hours to pop the 4 front bolts off, loosen the back 2, unscrew the filler cap from the bed, tilt/prop it up so I can access the filler line, yank the old one and clamp on the new one. Drop the bed back in place and screw everything back down. No problem (I hope).

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