You could give the front bolt a little bit of heat, only thing is if you give it to much heat the thermal pellet springs will have a chance of getting ruined...
My suggestion would be put a little bit if heat of it, and replace it with pellets that a number of different companies that make the bypass the oil so it has oil all the time instead of just once warm
the rest of the teardown looks good so far... Waiting to see more pics...
J.