A little light goes a long way. What a ridiculous amount of fasteners.
Edit-Turns out you don't have to take the splash guard out to be able to drain the coolant from the radiator. The drain plug is on the driver side of the radiator on the back side. Easy Peasy.
Getting all the coolant out of the motor a bother though. Think I'll run it till it warms a bit and see what happens.