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Mar. 15th, 2009 02:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eorYesterday 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 ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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.
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.
