it's amazing what a little paint will do, hopefully keep things sealed up a little longer. bed is back on, filler installed well, but the tail light bulbs are burn out. i must have bounced em off the floor too many times ...
drilling out one of the bed bolts that broke off was one of the super satisfying ones! drilled it with the tap drill size and it finally spun out the back. i got centered well enough that a quick thread chase and she's cherry. don't even need a bigger bolt.
then i decided i wasn't ready to play exhaust games and just went for the ultimate band aid that will last long enough to get thru inspection

maybe some time this summer i'll work on redoing that junk from the t-case back.