long time, no entry

Yesterday I caught a sudden case of ambition, I decided I was going to change the front heater fan and core. Those of you who have been following derien's journal already know that turning on the heater resulted in blowing the fuse, a sure sign that the fan had gone from failing to failed.

I'd already done the research and found out that it required pulling the entire dash in a process that would take an estimated 10 hours. I started about 8:30am and worked steadily throughout the day. When I finally got everything torn apart it was easy to tell that the fan was toast. I could barely turn it with my hands. The heater core didn't really need replacing, but I'm not planning on doing this project again, so I replaced it while I was there. Then came the fun of putting the whole thing back together. I got most of it back together. By 3:30pm I was too tired to mess with the bits that were still to be done, so I stopped for the night.

This morning I could hardly move. Nearly 10 hours of contortions under and around the dash while kneeling nearly the who time was not my body's idea of the way to spend a Saturday. I was sore all over and had bruises in various places from repeated encounters with metal protrusions. I wandered
back down and finished putting things together. It was a good project for a sunny warm weekend and I'm delighted to have it done.

Now if I could just get all the other things done that I had on the schedule for this weekend.