A little progress

Well, my side stripe kit didn't come in today like I was hoping. :( It should be here tomorrow. Oh well, I guess it will have to wait until my next weekend.

Got the brakes fixed today! Turns out the connector on the passenger side wheel was loose (!), and had leaked all the fluid out. Tightened it up, and it's good to go! That took about five minutes, and since I was in the mood to work on it at that point, I worked on some other projects that needed to get done. I tried to get the louvers adjusted better, but FAILED MISERABLY. After fighting with them for an hour, I finally got them back to where they were before I messed with them. That really sucked! I'll deal with that another day.

Since getting my A/C working is pretty much top of my priority list right now, my dad and I worked on it a bit. We had taken the belt off a while back because we kept having to change out the alternator belt every few days (that's a story for another time), so we put that back on and went to test it. Then I remembered that my mode switch didn't work and was stuck in vent mode, so we couldn't test the system. I had purchased a mode switch rebuild kit about a month or so ago, but hadn't had the time to actually rebuild it. So you guessed it, we rebuilt it. It took about twenty minutes to figure out how to get it out with instructions, so it wasn't bad. It took about 2 minutes to actually rebuild it, and about ten minutes to put everything back together. We went to try it, and nothing happened. The fan wouldn't turn on at all. Odd, it worked before we took it apart. So back apart it came. It took me about half an hour of looking and searching before I found what was wrong; one of the three wires wasn't connected to the mode switch. My dad had put it in, so I don't know if he forgot or if it slipped off while he was putting it back in. Anyway, I plugged the wire back in and it instantly came to life. This was about midnight, so it was hard to tell if the A/C was working since it was so cool out. I was exhausted, so I just put the car back together and called it a night. I will do more troubleshooting next weekend. But at least I now have a rebuilt mode switch! I'm now one step closer to having functioning A/C, and I am able to drive the car again!!! Not a bad day. :)


~Lyndsey

P.S. I didn't think to take any pictures while I was working, so I just took some pictures of my car once I was done. I thought it looked pretty good other than being dirty from working on it!