This is fucking ridiculous.......

I had to replace the heater core in my moms S10 Blazer this weekend and I knew it wasn't going to be a walk in the park, but I didn't expect this. I had to pull the entire dash assembly, the front fender, bumper, and grille, just to get to the HVAC stuff. And then that stuff fought me coming out. It was a fucking nightmare. 7.5 hours later, I still have the dash to put back. The dash was the worst part and I'm not looking forward to putting it back in. GM engineers and total fucking idiots. I saw several things that could've been done better and it would've even made the damn thing easier to assmeble. The major one is, if thay had put sort of dash wiring harness disconnect at either side of the dash, it would've saved a lot of time, as screwing with un-hooking the wiring took most of the time. They at least designed the dash so it can hang on a couple of pivot points so you can contort yourself around the dash to hook crap up wothout having to hold the dash in place. Anyways, I was going to rage a while here about this(this doesn't sound like raging, does it?), but I'm too tired at this point. I recovered well at the end of the day and have about 3 hours left tomorrow. Here's a copule of mid point photos. The new core is in the HVAC box and sitting on the floor.

Once I got to the heater core, it took about 5 minutes to change.......

Hot new work from Tomoe Kamiya!

And, of course, the obligatory catgirl!

What the hell, here's another for good measure. Peace, bitches!