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What's On My Mind
Sometimes I just wanna say what is on my mind, and other times I just want to write for the sake of writing. Windmill Tilting is my opportunity to do that, write for the sake of it. I have no specific topic, no idea I am trying to push, just a place to write whatever is on my mind when I sit down in front of the computer. I hope you enjoy some if not all of it. The posts below are a reflection of whatever I was thinking on that day in history.
Chevrolet Tracker Window
When you own an old car it's always something...something gone wrong...and hardly ever what you expect....
In my case, the most recent event with my 1998 Chevrolet Tracker is the window on the driver's side. I was driving home from work last night, and when I tried to roll the window down, it jammed about halfway down.
It didn't help that it was raining a little, but I managed to get it home and into the yard. Grabbing some tools I took the panel off to investigate and discovered what I can only describe as a complex system of wire cable and pulleys. The cable has become frayed, and as such won't fit through the little cable cover that protects it. That's what is causing the jamming. The window goes so far, but then the cable jams up, and that's as far as it will go. Great....
Did you ever try to work on something you really cannot reach? I was like a surgeon doing a heart operation trying to use a hack saw blade to cut the frayed parts of the cable off to allow the thing to move. I tried for about an hour or more before finally admitting defeat with the realization that I was either going to cut the cable completely by accident, or what I was doing was probably futile anyway because it will just keep fraying.
My buddy tells me I will have to buy a replacement cable and put it in. How I do that I have no idea, short of cutting a huge hole in the car door to be able to get my hands in their to work. There are already holes, but I don't think the people who designed it ever intended anyone to actually reach in there. Or if they did, they assumed that the person would know what they were doing....which of course isn't me....
Sounds like a trip to a auto tech is in my future....
In my case, the most recent event with my 1998 Chevrolet Tracker is the window on the driver's side. I was driving home from work last night, and when I tried to roll the window down, it jammed about halfway down.
It didn't help that it was raining a little, but I managed to get it home and into the yard. Grabbing some tools I took the panel off to investigate and discovered what I can only describe as a complex system of wire cable and pulleys. The cable has become frayed, and as such won't fit through the little cable cover that protects it. That's what is causing the jamming. The window goes so far, but then the cable jams up, and that's as far as it will go. Great....
Did you ever try to work on something you really cannot reach? I was like a surgeon doing a heart operation trying to use a hack saw blade to cut the frayed parts of the cable off to allow the thing to move. I tried for about an hour or more before finally admitting defeat with the realization that I was either going to cut the cable completely by accident, or what I was doing was probably futile anyway because it will just keep fraying.
My buddy tells me I will have to buy a replacement cable and put it in. How I do that I have no idea, short of cutting a huge hole in the car door to be able to get my hands in their to work. There are already holes, but I don't think the people who designed it ever intended anyone to actually reach in there. Or if they did, they assumed that the person would know what they were doing....which of course isn't me....
Sounds like a trip to a auto tech is in my future....
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