My "new" truck is my father-in-law's old truck - a 90 Chevy 1500 4x4.
It's a good truck - 350, 5 speed, long box, no A/C and no carpet.  'twas
a farm truck... so it's seeing "light duty" now going to the dump and
Home Depot and hauling car parts around.

However, the damn thing leaks.  Everywhere.  Coolant leak x2, front
diff, transmission, xfer case, and the rear axles are leaking BAD.  Is
it bad when rear end grease DRIPS off the shoes?  (rhetorical question.)

Picked up shoes and seals today.  Don't need to use the truck and won't
be able to do it for a few days, but am looking for tips on pulling the
axles.  My buddy did his Nova's axles once, but I've never done axle
seals before.  Have the shop manual, doesn't look too hard, will need
his slide hammer and the c-clips look like fun to get back in.  Figure
I'll need to learn how to do it for the dirt track Camaro sooner or later...

At this point I'm not sure if it's a 8.5" axle or a 9.5" - looks like
it's the same setup for both - only the 10.5" axle was full floating.

And what size are the lugnuts supposed to be?  They're like 21.5 mm (21
is to small and 22 is sloppy) and 13/16" is too small, 7/8" is too big.
 I think they're worn out 22s, just annoying because the socket keeps
sticking on them.  I hate cars that are half standard/half metric...

Don't even get me started about installing the baby seat tether.  Hint:
 drill a hole in the back of the cab... and get a nut on the bolt you
put in the hole... sounds easy, if the box is off.  You need a magnet
and a long wrench.

But it's a good truck for when you need a real truck.

Ray