Got my keys and manual from Alex. 1 step closer to ownership!
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Got my keys and manual from Alex. 1 step closer to ownership!
me? ive not done anything with mine. its actually becoming an eye sore because i bought it as a project to work on at school where im going, but i had to send the title back to the person i bought it off of because it was an estate vehicle and i couldnt get it switched in my homestate because the owner and seller were 2 different people, so i sent the title back almost 3 months ago and havent got it let alone hear anything too constructive from the seller. i came within a fly's hair of parting it out (but im not going to do that after thinking about it for a loooooooong time). mines depressing everytime i look at it.
Today? Poked and prodded the throttle. I'm about to remove the splash cover and *hopefully* get to the bottom of my stupid throttle/idle issue.
I will be taking 747 up to DMCCA tomorrow to have my front fascia fixed. It started to seperate from the panels months ago and now that it's show season more than a few people have pointed it out. So its getting pulled the minor eyebrows fixed and repainted just in time for the British themed show in the middle of the month.
Oh and picking up some new floor mats
Put a new piston in my driver's side door because it blew out on me again.
Sent Tony an email at DMCF to see if he can have someone look at my window switches. The fuse keeps blowing.
A warranty is a great thing.
Lenny
Last night touched every solder joint on the Megasquirt ECU (for electronic fuel injection).
Today will reinstall into car and see if the intermittent electrical fault is gone.
Will likely have to drive to work on Monday to know for sure. Only seems to fail during rush hour. :dunno:
Jim Reeve
DMC6960
Gave it a bath and went for a drive...
Dan
Drove down to DMC NW to see Toby and John. Had the steering aligned and picked up a bunch of parts. They are always so welcoming and accommodating. Never too busy to chat it up and show some cool new products.
Beautiful sunny day.
I took my passenger seat out so I could paint the track. It was rusty.
My grandson's 8th grade dance was last night and he wanted to be taken and picked up in the delorean. So I drove 2.5 hours picked him up at his house and drove him 10 minutes to his school waited 3 hours and then drove him home. Lastly drove another 2.5 hours home.
I like driving my car.
Lenny
About 18 months ago I bought a Legacy LN46 power antenna. Today I installed it.
power window switches, on the way (my LH just died), also have a new headlight switch coming as well as brake rotors, pads and calipers all coming.
Should be a darn good improvement being able to activate my headlights at the touch of a button, roll down my windows and be able to stop! :lol:
I am less than 24 hours away from completing my Masters Thesis. Once I'm finished the real work begins... on my car that is.
My biggest problem right now is it's rough to start, rough idle - it's constantly searching for steady, hesitates in accelleration especially under 2500 rpms, really strong gas smell out of the exhaust. I need to check the sparks, and injectors. I'm pretty sure I'm loosing preasure as a spray of carb cleaner around the front od the engine gets sucked in and you can smell it coming out of the exhaust. Hope it's a gasket and not ahole in the block.
The TABs need to be replaced. One is loose and cannot be tightened so I know it's bent.
General flaking on the frame needs to be cleaned up and repainted.
The clutch master cylinder is leaking so that needs to be replaced.
Install a new dust cap on the speedo - already did the lower cable and the right angle drive. Spun it with a drill so I know everything down wind is working but still no speedometer.
Now, cosmetically... Need to repaint the upper windshield trim piece. Re-grain the stainless but first need to have a few dents repaired. Also haveing a serious issue with the shape of the dirver side door. When closed it alligns with the front window pillar and the back edge fine although there's a bit of a bend in the leading edge of the door at the pillar. Below the horizontal trim along the door it quickly curves inwards and appears to be over-closed. However, judging by the wat thetop half lies I believe the door is just bent out of shape.
Need to replace the rear speakers. Replace the power antenna.
I think that's it. Hey, you asked. :) Should take me... oh all summer and I know I won't get to all of it.
Steve
#4456
Got my insurance quote and sent off my Club application. :D
Only a few weeks away now! :D
Finished installing the headliner ! Woo Woo
looks like new but with DMC pod mod8)
Replaced left turn signal bulb and put binnacle back on. Tested it. Now the right side is out. F*%&^. Remove binnacle, replace right turn signal. Test. Both out.
WTF. Jiggle some stuff, adjust connectors. Both work. Win.
Up next - dead pedal.
Reinstalled the Megasquirt computer and took car on long test drive. No repeat of previous problems (computer randomly cutting out). Also determined now that I have a good working O2 sensor, the tune needs a lot more fine tuning.
Got her back from DMC CA, with a new binnacle and the idle system as healthy as possible.
Then, to mock me, it stalled in a parking lot :D
Also started regrain, installed a new airfilter, and started removing the sticker in the front.
Walked past it and saw a spider web from the right front wheel to the ground. Definitely time to drive it a bit, lack of a/c notwithstanding.
Farrar
8) Just waitting for a sunny day to open it out on the road a little. Or alot... :)
Drove 150 miles on a cloudless sunny day, and wished it was overcast or raining.
Bill Robertson
#5939
Yesterday actually: Changed oil, installed new Marty Maier oil pressure sending unit, test drove, parked and covered.
Found out my D is still at least 2 weeks away!! Ggrrr!
WOW is it ever going to get there ? I was just about to email you asking if you knew where the car was at. That is one slow boat it is coming on.
I finally fixed 1632's "won't start if it's hot outside" issue. It was the starter relay. Apparently, the heat in my cabin causes it to get unseated just enough for the car to go "click" when I turn the key. So I just remove it, then plug it back in.
Installed my dead pedal.
So full of win.
Yeah...take back what I said. It fixed the issue yesterday, but not today! Took me 40 mins to coax her into starting. She just hates hot weather. So, back to DMCCA. I still suspect that even if the starter's bad, there's some other connection from the relay to the starter (I hear a clicking so I know power is getting to the relay) that is housed in rubber or some other material that expands in heat.
Is your AC blower using an original 25 amp breaker? You could try replacing the breaker with a 30 amp unit. The starter shares this same breaker.
I was having start problems and after replacing my starter and relay, it was finally changing out the breaker that fixed the problem.
Also, is your AC blower on setting 3 or 4 when you have start problems? You could turn the AC off and see what happens. Like I said, they share the same breaker and if it trips your starter won't be able to get power.
Factory wiring does not use a breaker in the starting circuit (in typical DeLorean fashion, there is no protection for the circuit whatsoever):
http://dmctalk.org/attachment.php?at...5&d=1306264553
Scotch lock a wire to the Red/White starter solenoid wire at the bulkhead connectors (white connector closest to the firewall) and use it to trigger the starter solenoid via the jump start post. If the starter motor spins, you've got a problem earlier in the circuit. If the starter motor does not spin, you've got a problem with the starter motor/solenoid themselves. Afterwards leave the wire connected (make sure the end of it is insulated) and tuck it underneath the coil cover for future use.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQQiUh3lbdQ
(Credit Farrar. I suspect this was a very cold engine start, and his carburetor's fuel bowl was empty -- took a few seconds for the pump to fill it).
Bill Robertson
#5939
On a pure whim, I managed to discover a slight fuel leak in the connection between the return soft line and return hard line. Gotta fix that!
Your an early vin, do you have the starter relay modification?
That modification if done correctly will not trip the blower circuit breaker. It should have wired to "batt" side of the breaker, not the"load" side.
Lastly, I had a bad ground on one of my relays. I ended up making a new ground harness for that bank of relays which do not crimp two wires into one relay connector pin. I should do the same to the other bank of relays one day.
Went for a drive.
Dan