Do you ever think nothing will ever go right again?  I’ve definitely had one of those weeks, and it’s only Wednesday.  So much stuff has gone wrong this week it’s unbelievable.  At first we thought Hubby would be out of work for 5 weeks, but at least that turned itself around somehow.  Now we know he’ll only be out 2-3 weeks at most, and that’s a big relief.

Now I’m working on making sure the window motor gets replaced in the driver door on the Blazer since it went out on us yesterday, the window is stuck in the down position, and there’s rain on it’s way.  There’s a way to manually raise the thing, but it’s a royal pain to do.  Then again this is why mechanics charge outrageous amounts to fix it.  The part is relatively cheap, but just getting into the door is a task.

First of all the Blazer has one of those alarm systems that disables the ignition if anything is tampered with in any way. It’ll also screw things up if you disconnect the battery without disarming it, but it’s not as simple as just hitting a button to disarm it like most alarm systems. You have to do all kinda stuff in a specific order or you’ll screw everything up. I don’t even mess with it as that’s Hubby’s domain.

Then actually tearing into the door was a nightmare. Hubby’s done this twice now so at least he knew what to do, but it’s a pain trying to pop everything apart without messing anything up. After he got inside the door the manual totally contradicts itself. The procedure for raising the window tells you to lower the window fully then to disconnect the regulator by following the directions in another chapter. When you get to the directions for the regulator it tells you the window much be raised all the way up and taped in place before you can drill out the rivets to remove the regulator. It’s like how the heck am I supposed to raise the window when you’re telling me I have to have it already raised to remove the regulator, but you’re telling me to remove the regulator to raise it!

Yeah this is why I’m just as confused as you are at this point, and if I could afford to there’s no way I’d be sitting there reading Hubby the directions on how to do this when I could just pay someone else to do it. Unfortunately that’s just not an option right now, but neither is leaving the window down with rain headed this way.