Ok, sorry. Lemme give you a better run down here.

I purchased this old gal 2 weeks ago, but the fanbelt broke on the drive home from buying it and it overheated.

I got a belt back on and got it home and started the process of doing all three (as I ended up just cutting the power steering and AC belts, since I couldn't figure out how to get them off, and I was on the side of the road. But, after I took the fan shroud off, literally right in front of my eves, I witnessed the plastic crack on the radiator.

So, I had to order a new one and was immobilized for a week. In that week, I cleaned the engine very thoroughly. I also pulled out all the interior and the radio and installed a new head unit and I ran new speaker wires throughout the car and then put in new speakers.

I got the new radiator and put it in. I put in the new belts, and it started up and stayed cold.

But, it was shifting all crazy, like at super high rpms. So, I found out that the transmission runs on vacuum, and went back in the engine to find it out.

There was one vacuum line disconnected from the main cluster of them on top of the valve cover. I re-attached it, but it wouldn't stay. I looked closer and realized that it wasn't the same size or type as the other ones in the cluster, so I assume the PO replaced it.

I wente to Advance Auto and tried to get a new vacuum hose for it on Monday. But, they didn't have any that fit. The guy told me that fuel line would work though. I put it on, and it did work. The trans was shifting like a dream. I drove home and I went to put up my windows, but they wouldn't go up and the locks wouldn't work.

I got back under the hood and the throttle had caught the new hose that I put on, as I had made it too long, and it was kinked up. I pulled it off and fired up the engine. As soon as I did, the windows and the locks worked again.

I replaced the hose with a smaller length one of the same material and it was driving fine.

I drove it to work yesterday, and when I got to work, the windows and the door locks wouldn't work to get them back up. I turned off the car and opened the hood, and the fuel line had shrunk from the heat and was completely pinched all the way through, and not allowing any vacuum through. Right here is where I realized that the fuel line is not the right answer for the hose there. (since then, I went to Auto Zone and got actual vacuum hose that fits.)

I pulled th hose and went to restart the car and it wouldn't. The starter just clicks. I checked the wires on the battery and they were fine. I put the car in nuetral to see if it was the NRC and that didn't work either. Just clicking noises.

Every time I had started the car prior to this, the starter mad e a very odd noise, like a loud WHURR after the engine engaged, but I didn't put it together that this was an off noise. I'm stupid. This is my first diesel, and I don't know why, but I just assumed it was something that had to do with a different type of engine than I'm used to. I know, I'm stupid.

So, I came inside and searched around, and think that the solenoid is bad. I think that the windows wouldn't go up because the vacuum reservoir in the trunk is empty and I haven't been able to get the engine going to replenish them.

I got a new starter from AutoZone, and I have the battery, battery tray, and air filter removed. I have gotten both of the rear 10mm Allen bolts removed. But, at the rear of the starter, it attaches to that bracket that attaches to the engine mount. I got the top 10mm bolt out no problem, but the bottom one is tight and my 1/4 (sorry mistyped it earlier) socket wrench will not fit in there. The only thing I can get in there is a small 10mm wrench, and I can't get enough torque to move the bolt.

I read that the bracket itself has to come off as well, but I don't know because I can't get the last bolt out of the actual starter in order to see. I tried to get the two 17mm bolts out of the bracket to see if I could just take it all out at once and then take the 10mm out where I had room to get at it, but I can't get to the top 17mm bolt.

And, that's where I'm at.