nothing like a day off

Ugh. I started working on the van this morning at 8:15 in the drizzle. I stopped working on the van at 6pm, shortly before the thunderstorm. The only break I took was lunch. I am so beat. I got all the air conditioning hoses removed, the wiring for the air conditioning removed, and the condenser out. The only bits of the air still left is the blower part of the unit in the rear overhead cabinet and the switch on the dash. I can't remove the overhead cabinet until I line up a replacement. The switch I'll deal with at some point. The air conditioner hasn't worked since the engine swap, it's just been taking up space and slowly rusting. In order to get it back working I'd have to put in power steering and I don't think that's important enough.

While I was doing that some wires that I wasn't removing disintegrated in my hands. Some investigation showed they were the wires for the radiator fan. One of them was worn so that bare wire was showing and so corroded that there almost wasn't any wire left. I spent a few hours tracing the wires making sure I knew what was what and splicing in a small chunk into three of the wires.

I also took a crack at removing one of the front springs. That didn't happen. Consulting the Bentley manual, it will be a big job. They recommend disconnecting most of the frontend parts to get the springs out. I'm trying to figure out the earliest large block of time I'll have coming up.

Advil has been taken. I don't think I'll have any problem getting to sleep tonight.