Not an A but still barely a Mopar...'12 Caravan lock actuator fail...

Another job that sucks. 2012 Dodge Caravan sliding door lock actuator. the damn mechanical lock lever jammed in the locked position on a manual sliding door. You gotta take the inner door mechanism out to get the friggin door OPEN and then you can somehow replace the power door lock actuator. Trouble is the door wont friggin open to get the latch out of the jamb. So Watching a few youtubes they tell me to remove the inner door panel (not hard, just 1 T20 and yank it out) and then your facing a mini city-scape of cables, wires and bolts. remove the 10 10mm bolts and the door panel is supposed to come out, wrong. The panel is still attached to the window so you pop 2 rubber plugs and get access to 2 10mm nuts that capture the bottom of the window to the lift mechanism. No you can take it out? Well, no because its still attached to the door latch subframe at the rear of the door. Peeling back the istill attached inner door panel shows the latch subframe thats bolted to the doorjamb is a slide interlock with the inner door frame but no matter how much you try and push the inner frame back to seperate the 2 they wont budge. So after about 5 minutes of eyeballing this I decided brute force could not hurt my cause so I pushed the doorlock rod back sharply into the jamb and the thing actually moved. Wait, did I just fix this? I looked up at the lock lever and sure as **** it was in the unlock position. I worked the rod back and forth and it was free and clear now. WTH? This thing was not moving 20 minutes ago. So the door gets put back together and I'm cycling the lock after every bolt I'm tightening, still working. get the window attached again, panel back on. Still works fine....but the power lock now makes a loud buzz when the door locks. They lock but it just makes a buzz. Did I bend the flimsy rod when I was manhandling it and now the throw is off? Ill live with the buzz but that is weird. I cant imagine doing this again and actually getting to the actuator as I never got that far as the 2 inner door parts would not seperate.