Get a winch!
My driveway is in the 10 deg range. I added a tow bar to my non s
Running dart and jsr my jeep to.pull it out and back in.
I toyed with the idea of a winch to pull things back into the garage.
I have a blue console and it looks like the texture is cast in.
You could get some silicon molding material and make a mold of the texture and use that to impression into some gel coat or the like.
Kind of like they do with stamped concrete
Getting the mold to make the impressions and not...
That's why the system MUST be vented, the water in the rad only leaves the the rad because it has expanded. If it can't get out of the rad it will expand and pressurize the cooling system to greater than 16 lbs.
The 16 lbs cap allows the air ( or coolant if it's 100% full) to escape out...
My dad made one out of an orange juice bottle, he had it on his / my dart since the late 70s when I got his car it was one of the first things I removed.
The radiator tank can have an inch of air above the coolant. It dies not need to be completely full. In all reality, you could fill the rad to the top, go through several heat cool cycles and the coolant will find its level in the radiator. Maybe in the hottest heat of the summer it will loose...
100% normal
after the center clips are installed can you PRESS the cups either direction? DO NOT APPLY TOO MUCH FORCE just enough to see if there is movement.
What I see is the slot for the new cups is wider than the slot for the old cups.
Are the new clips the same width as the old clips...
Make sure your axle spline count is the same.
Is your diff guy a shop or a buddy? If a shop they might be able to get a clutch type cheaper that you can.
Also ...
The eBay ones are of Unknown quality. They may be fine especially for crushing but unknown how they last under harsh conditions