Dude I have no idea how I keep seeing your messages like months later.. but thanks re: paint. Prep work was totally the suckiest part of it, but spraying was OK minus low clearance in my garage for spraying roof, screwing up the first coat with a crappy fan pattern from the gun (which didn't help any following coat look too great), and the color being way darker than I anticipated. I should have sought out khaki or dune colored, not desert sand.

So in short: If I ever feel like taping it up again and giving it a quick once over with a scuffing pad, I'll spray it the color I actually wanted it to be and try to do a better job on the first coat.

Maintenance crap and some rants to serve my memory and build giant walls of text at 2am .. between July of 2016 and mid August 2016, 266,500 mi:

Brake fluid with some Valvoline full synthetic. Series of turkey bastering the reservoir, excessive flushing through each corner of the car, and a proper bleed. As I was trying to do the last corner I noticed I wasn't really getting much in my collection cup - hadn't tightened the previous corner fully and it shot a ton of brake fluid all over my garage

Power steering fluid using a series of turkey baster to reservoir->refill with ATF fluid->rotate wheels a few times->repeat, a lot. Then refilled with Lucas PS Stopleak because my rack boots had a little fluid in them, which I noticed when I did...

Inner and outer tie rods on both sides, MOOG brand, worked okay. I couldn't separate my inner and outers so I had to use an angle grinder once they were off the car to slide the boots off. Also replaced steering rack guide with the updated style used in 3rd gens made after mine.. easy, significant improvement

Front and transmission skids from RCI offroad in steel, painted with the HVLP and Rustoleum Hammered. Pretty awesome products

Re-did front brakes because I had used rotors for 15" wheels 2 years / 5,000? miles back. Oops. New rotors & new Wagner thermoquiet pads again. Picked up a reman'd front passenger caliper as it's a little uncooperative at this point and I had done the drivers side a couple years back for the same thing... yet to install.

Installed new Hopkins trailer tail light converter as the factory one had bit the dust. Installed 7 pin/4 pin trailer connector but haven't run wires up to the front yet. Purchased and received, but yet to install: Prodigy P3 brake controller

And wow, I just realized I've dumped significantly more than I paid for this thing back in to it in 12,000 miles and 2 years 9 months