VIN 4728 Running Resto

[Rich_NYS]

Beautiful work Rich. I look forward to drinking some beers and working on Deloreans lol

Roger that!

[Lwanmtr]

Looking awesome.

[DMC-81]

Great progress! It is looking awesome indeed!

[Mark D]

Beautiful work Rich, I'd be happy to have you work on my car anytime

It's gonna be so F-ing amazing to take that thing out on the road again after all the work you've put into it.

[Parzval]

Looking really REALLY good, Rich!

I must confess, I haven't been following your thread very closely. Did you go frame off? That frame is beautiful. I need to tidy mine up as well. I'm torn between doing it a little at a time and being able to drive it, or just jumping in with both feet and going frame off.

[Rich_NYS]

Thanks for the compliments everyone....it means a lot & keeps me motivated!


Josh:

I did [what I call] a "partial" frame-off to get better access to the center frame rail; I removed all but two body bolts in the rear, then "opened" the front (kinda like a gator's jaws.) I should've just done a complete frame-off; I think it wouldn't have been much more time spent, and would've saved a lot of work (not having to mask off the body for painting, being able to reach "down" instead of "up" to work...etc.) I didn't paint the rear portion of the frame or trailing arms, just the front part and center rail.
How's things with your car?

[Parzval]

Josh:

How's things with your car?

Unfortunately I haven't touched it except to move it in and out of the garage a couple times to do work in the garage. The week after Halloween it developed a miss along with a melting rubber smell. I haven't had time to investigate because I've gotten into some major renovations on my house, but I suspect it's a plug wire melting on the manifold. I posted the issue on here and a few other suggestions were posed as well. Like fuse #7, and fuses in general. The insurance goes on lay-up the first of the year, so knowing me, I'll fix it the week before April when it reactivates.

I did want to do a few things to it this winter while it was on lay-up, like touch up the frame and bleed the brakes.... maybe fix the curb damage on my one wheel and paint the set. But the house work is going far slower than I anticipated. Good to see you're getting some headway! You'll be on the road this spring I assume!

[Rich_NYS]

Hopefully I'm only dealing with what I can see here:

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The yellow wire hacked into position 1 is spliced to that red wire, which was spliced to a blue wire (I removed today) and was run through the bulkhead, along the frame, and into the FFE where it was connected to a fuel pump at the fuel tank.

Everything else electrical seemed to work when I first got the car. I didn't check the A/C....there obviously would be some issues there.

I'm going to replace the fuse block, normalize the wiring, then go from there.

Still on track to start the car this month.

[powerline84]

I am in the same boat ...ordered a new fuse block

[Lwanmtr]

Yaay for PO mods...I just looked at mine and I dont have any wire where that red one is..hehe.