Was totally clueless how to install the trunk torsion bars/seemed counterintuitive. Once I understood how, it took about 5 minutes. The service manual confirmed my improvised approach was more or less backwards. I've never messed with those before, ever and hopefully never will again.
On disassembly, you could see the factory assembled the metal, greased the trunk hinges, and then painted right over the grease. As awesome as a factory original car might be, I didn't do that....
Now that everything has new slippery paint on it, it all needs to be adjusted and seems to be fighting me. I used to be able to just wiggle the pieces around a little, and they'd find their old home in the very few places there wasn't any rust. Not anymore.
Alot of prep I did 2 years ago on tedious little things (rebuild/clean/epoxy most of the hinges and things like that), paid off....as I could clean/prep/paint them real quick now. I did mess up by waiting to rebuild the upper door hinges until now, so that slowed me down a couple hours or whatever but nothing too bad.
