Washed it and cleaned the wheels with that lug nut brush. Huge difference. Looks great and ready to drive again!
Location: Sacramento-ish
Posts: 4,408
My VIN: 02100
Club(s): (NCDMC) (DCUK)
Washed it and cleaned the wheels with that lug nut brush. Huge difference. Looks great and ready to drive again!
Jon
1981 DMC-12 #02100. July 1981. 5-speed, black, grooved w/flap.
restoration log, March 2011 to present
full and detailed photo restoration log
Location: sacramento
Posts: 1,415
My VIN: 1768
Club(s): (NCDMC) (DCUK)
Finally welded in an additional O2 bung before the Cat so I can begin to wire up my Wideband O2, yet another step in the EFi swap.
Spend the whole day working on recovering the drivers seat with the heating and cooling mods now in place. About 1-2 hours of work tomorrow and it will be complete. Then the drivers and passenger seats can finally go back into their proper positions and anyone can try them out at the DMCMW open house on Saturday.
Pictures tomorrow.
Jim Reeve
DMC6960
D-Status: - Getting some Spring exercise
Yesterday I made the first long trip in my car since finishing the rebuild... I'm happy to report that I made the 70 mile journey to my new house with no issues. The temp gauge never made it past the first tick mark on the dial so the new aluminum reproduction radiator from DMCH seems to be doing its job very well.
The A/C is offically dead though which made for a bit of a warm trip. The service records of the PO show that a can or two of R12 was added every couple of years to keep the system charged. I've been reading up on a few other threads here about R134a conversion. If I can find the source of the leak and can patch it up I may just stick with R12. Not sure what to do at this point yet.
Location: Fort Lauderdale
Posts: 4,740
My VIN: 02613
Club(s): (DCF)
I installed the diodes in the courtesy light circuit. It still doesn't behave correctly.
I cleaned and organized the garage and covered the car. Time to study some schematics -- I may have to remove Dave McKeen's new courtesy light delay module and return the socket wiring to stock configuration.
A discouraging afternoon.
3.0L, automatic, carbureted
DMCTalk.org Moderator
Actual snippet of a conversation from Sept 2013:
Me: Eddie, I can't wait to get the car back when you're done with it.
Eddie: Yeah, you'll be able to give the car gas, and it won't be - like - embarrassing....
Dave M vin 03572
http://dm-eng.weebly.com/
DMCTalk.org Moderator
Actual snippet of a conversation from Sept 2013:
Me: Eddie, I can't wait to get the car back when you're done with it.
Eddie: Yeah, you'll be able to give the car gas, and it won't be - like - embarrassing....