Dmc 12 3519 runs and drives!!!!!!

[Denverdelorean]

After WEEKS of work and many hundreds of dollars. My Delorean has started and driven under it's own power for the first time in 16 years!

Some of you may have seen that I had a strange hard start issue. After scooping out pounds of varnish from the tank and replacing all the fuel pump components. i was unable to get the car to start and run. It would start only if i removed the fuel pump fuse and ran it off of accumulator pressure only. Running it that way confirmed that the car did in fact run. but was not able to get consistent fuel delivery.

I replaced the cold start valve, but the old one appeared to be OK anyway, so no, that wasn't it. I cleaned a checked all the injectors and they checked out ok. The symptoms did not match that of a bad warm up regulator, so I ruled that out for now. Frequency valve seemd to work. So what was it?

After many calls to both Stephen at DMCH and Danny at DMCCA, Danny finally suggested i check the plunger in the fuel distributor. It could be stuck wide open and causing a hyper rich situation that was flooding my cylinders. I removed the fuel distributor and sure enough, it was stuck fast. 45 minutes with a touch of acetone sitting on it and it was free. I reassembled everything and she runs beautifully!

Everything seems to work ok except the blower motor for the hvac system. The angle drive even works! (for now)

[vps3922]

After WEEKS of work and many hundreds of dollars. My Delorean has started and driven under it's own power for the first time in 16 years!

Some of you may have seen that I had a strange hard start issue. After scooping out pounds of varnish from the tank and replacing all the fuel pump components. i was unable to get the car to start and run. It would start only if i removed the fuel pump fuse and ran it off of accumulator pressure only. Running it that way confirmed that the car did in fact run. but was not able to get consistent fuel delivery.

I replaced the cold start valve, but the old one appeared to be OK anyway, so no, that wasn't it. I cleaned a checked all the injectors and they checked out ok. The symptoms did not match that of a bad warm up regulator, so I ruled that out for now. Frequency valve seemd to work. So what was it?

After many calls to both Stephen at DMCH and Danny at DMCCA, Danny finally suggested i check the plunger in the fuel distributor. It could be stuck wide open and causing a hyper rich situation that was flooding my cylinders. I removed the fuel distributor and sure enough, it was stuck fast. 45 minutes with a touch of acetone sitting on it and it was free. I reassembled everything and she runs beautifully!

Everything seems to work ok except the blower motor for the hvac system. The angle drive even works! (for now)

Congratulations for bringing her back! I wish you lots of fun with her (are DeLoreans female?...hmmm...might explain why they are a dick magnet and not a chick magnet )!

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[dmc6960]

Ahem, I dont believe you mentioned anywhere in your previous thread that the car had sat for 16 years! A stuck plunger would have been one of my (and many of us) first suggestion.

Details details!

Glad you got it working.

[Denverdelorean]

Ahem, I dont believe you mentioned anywhere in your previous thread that the car had sat for 16 years! A stuck plunger would have been one of my (and many of us) first suggestion.

Details details!

Glad you got it working.

Yeah, i found that little detail to be helpful to Danny as well. He asked what started my problems, and i said nothing, it has been sitting for over a decade! Live and Learn.

[Ozzie]

Congratulations!
Good job getting her back to driving condition.
Enjoy!

[Beachdrifter]

Now you can relax and enjoy the car..

Reminds me when I had a similar fuel issue over the holidays. I pretty much took apart and cleaned my whole fuel system and failed to notice the kinked line coming out of my accumulator being my troubles. What I had least expected had been true. Oh well, at least I know everything else is good now. At least you did a good thorough cleaning and don't have to worry about it for a long while!

--Randy

[AugustneverEnds]

Bravo!!! Fire her up and let her run

reminds me I should probably fix my angle drive one of these days, 2 years and I've relied on a Garmin GPS