For geeks only / Loose cables & ground connections ;-)

[abiberacher]

Hello everbody,

I am new one, my name is Alex and I'm from Germany.

I've recently bought a DeLorean and fixed a lot of problems by myself, except a few connectors and ground cables where I couldn't find, on which place they should be connected or plugged in.

Maybe some geeks can assist me in finding out......

Thank you guys.

Alex

[Jonathan]

Hi Alex,

Welcome aboard!

Is your car a manual transmission? In your 8th and final picture, you show a black connector right up on top of the W pipe. I believe this connector is the 2nd connection to the microswitches which control the kickdown and full throttle aspects. On an automatic car, you use both, but on the manual transmission, there is only one microswitch. I believe that one on your car (if it is a manual transmission) would be okay the way it is.

A couple others look like ground wires, notably the one in the 2nd picture coming from the fuel tank sender. I'm not near my car at the moment, so I'll have to let other owners figure out some of your other wires.

Cheers.

[Ron]

Hello everbody,

I am new one, my name is Alex and I'm from Germany.

I've recently bought a DeLorean and fixed a lot of problems by myself, except a few connectors and ground cables where I couldn't find, on which place they should be connected or plugged in.

Maybe some geeks can assist me in finding out......

Thank you guys.

Alex

Hey Alex,

:welcome:

You are just in time to join a group effort to document all of the delorean grounds.:biggrin:

Here are a couple of links that you might be interested in:

http://dmctalk.org/showthread.php?1301-Ground-Location-List

http://dmctalk.org/showthread.php?4555-List-of-Grounds

[abiberacher]

Hello again,

and thank you for helping me.

Yes it is a manual ;-)

And I've already read all the ground list locations but I can't understand exactly without pictures :-(

Maybe:

6. Single ground going to the bolt that holds the Vacuum advance solenoid to the throttle body.

Could be this black ground cable....

Thank you again....great community !

[dvonk]

welcome to the forum, Alex! :wave:

[jawn101]

That one with the red tag is your ECU ground and should be bolted to the intake manifold. Not sure how the car is running without it but my guess would be 'not very well' :)

Good luck!!

[Ron]

It would help if you gave wire colors (including stripe if any).


From left to right:

3. (?See 7 below?)

6. ECU (see jawn101's post above)

7. Lower Left- Diagnostic plug (Orange: Lambda ECU, can use to set CO dwell; Purple: 12V from Fuse#12)

8. Not used on Manual Transmission (kickdown request switch harness pigtail).

Did you see this yet (if it don't help here, it will sooner or later lol)
http://dmctalk.org/showthread.php?17-DMC-12-color-wiring-diagram

[Elvis]

Hi Alex,

where exactly are you from ?

There is also local help, we have around 200 Delorean in Germany
and coming weekend 30 Deloreans will meet in Bavaria for our annual
club event.

Elvis & 6548
www.deloreans.de

[abiberacher]

Hi Alex,

where exactly are you from ?

There is also local help, we have around 200 Delorean in Germany
and coming weekend 30 Deloreans will meet in Bavaria for our annual
club event.

Elvis & 6548
www.deloreans.de


Hi Elvis,

ich komme aus der Delorean Stadt oder auch Wolfgang-Hank-Town ( Augsburg ) ;-

Kommenden Montag habe ich bei Wolfgang einen Termin für meinen Delo bekommen, daher versuche ich noch soviel wie möglich selbst zu beheben um Kosten zu sparen bzw. Budget für teurere Sachen wie den Motor frei zu machen. Natürlich sollte sich dann auch idealerweise der geplante "Aufenthalt" in der Werkstatt verkürzen so daß mir mehr Zeit zum Fahren bleibt....

Leider hat es mit den deutschen Foren bisher nicht so gut geklappt, weshalb ich es hier und in UK versucht habe, über das prompte Feedback kann ich nur staunen.

Hatte z.B. schon Anfang April versucht mich bei deloreans.de anzumelden, habe aber bis heute keine Aktivierung erhalten, auch nicht im Spam etc. :-(
Habe es dann mit identischem Namen ( anderer als jetzt hier ) im Forum des Deloreanclubs versucht, dort wurde ich prompt freigeschalten,
hab mich dann gleich vorgestellt aber bis auf den Peter hat niemand geschrieben, in 3 Monaten...schon ein bißchen schwach.

An dieser Stelle nochmal danke an den Peter für die nette Willkommensbotschaft :-)

Außerdem kann man die wichtigen Bereiche wie Technik nur als Clubmitglied einsehen, finde ich schade.....

Da fühle ich mich bei den Amis und Engländern deutlich wohler....

Hier wird man auch nicht wie in vielen deutschen Foren unterschiedlicher Interessen üblich ( nicht auf Delorean Foren bezogen )
ständig von "Besserwissern" belehrt:

1, stelle dich doch erst Mal vor bevor du Fragen stellst

2, benutze doch die Suchfunktion

etc.

Du kennst das ja sicher auch, solche Forenbeiträge liest man täglich im Internet.

Deshalb habe ich mich entschieden, erst mal meine Fragen im Ausland zu posten.

Freue mich aber auf alle Fälle auf ein baldiges Treffen mit dir, damit ich dich noch persönlich kennen lernen kann.
Bist ja, auch wenn ich dich nicht persönlich kenne ein bunter Hund in Deutschland.

Bisher beschränkt sich die Bekanntschaft mit deutsche Delo-Besitzern noch auf den Wolfgang und den Martin B. aus Aalen.

Übrigens, falls du einen Tipp zu meinen Bildern hast, würde ich mich sehr über einen Beitrag freuen, vor allem dieses schwarze Massekabel das aus dem Kabelstrang zum Tankgeber kommt hätte ich gerne noch vor dem Werkstattbesuch richtig angeschlossen.

Viele Grüße und danke

Alex

[Tillsy]

Sounds like you are worried about the grounding wire in picture #5 - that one connects to any of the bolts around the fuel filler. I have taken and attached a photograph to demonstrate for you.

[abiberacher]

Sounds like you are worried about the grounding wire in picture #5 - that one connects to any of the bolts around the fuel filler. I have taken and attached a photograph to demonstrate for you.


Great !!! :tantrum:

This should be it, I haven't seen this cable attached to that bolt.

Thank you very much.....

Alex

[abiberacher]

Great !!! :tantrum:

This should be it, I haven't seen this cable attached to that bolt.

Thank you very much.....

Alex



@Chris

So we figured out that a lot of these connectors are for automatic only or diagnostic.
Ground cable found ;-)

Except two cables:

Green connector at drivers footwell Pic 1

Pink/orange Connector at Engine Bay behind the Fuel Distributor and between the bulkhead Pic 3

One guy meant it should be connected to the inlet manifold TT

Chris, could you please try to get pictures of these two connectors ??

I have already yesterday searched for a place where this Pink/orange Connector at Engine Bay could be plugged in,
but didn't found anything.

Thanks in Advance !

Alex

[jawn101]

@Chris

So we figured out that a lot of these connectors are for automatic only or diagnostic.
Ground cable found ;-)

Except two cables:

Green connector at drivers footwell Pic 1

Pink/orange Connector at Engine Bay behind the Fuel Distributor and between the bulkhead Pic 3

One guy meant it should be connected to the inlet manifold TT

Chris, could you please try to get pictures of these two connectors ??

I have already yesterday searched for a place where this Pink/orange Connector at Engine Bay could be plugged in,
but didn't found anything.

Thanks in Advance !

Alex

Green in the driver footwell is supposed to be disconnected. There were two versions of the wiring harness, one that allowed the brake lights to work all the time and one that only allowed it when the key was on. That spare connector is a leftover and goes nowhere.

The pink/orange connector is for the diagnostic plug, which probably fell off/was removed long ago. It goes nowhere as well, and you can use it for probing the frequency valve dwell if you ever need to.

[abiberacher]

Green in the driver footwell is supposed to be disconnected. There were two versions of the wiring harness, one that allowed the brake lights to work all the time and one that only allowed it when the key was on. That spare connector is a leftover and goes nowhere.

The pink/orange connector is for the diagnostic plug, which probably fell off/was removed long ago. It goes nowhere as well, and you can use it for probing the frequency valve dwell if you ever need to.


Brilliant !

11987

What do you think about this white connectors on the right side with cable colors red & black ??

Alex

[jawn101]

Brilliant !

11987

What do you think about this white connectors on the right side with cable colors red & black ??

Alex

Unsure on that one. The connector is the right shape for the frequency valve bulkhead connection under the coil box, but those wire colors don't jive.

You should definitely check out this thread:
http://dmctalk.org/showthread.php?40-All-Wiring-Schematics

Post #6 has bulkhead connector diagrams for the engine compartment.

[Ron]

I have taken and attached a photograph to demonstrate for you.
Sinfully clean!

[Ron]

Pink/orange Connector at Engine Bay behind the Fuel Distributor and between the bulkhead Pic 3

One guy meant it should be connected to the inlet manifold TT
I think he meant the one in pic #6 goes to the intake manifold.

Right side, top, toward the front of the vehicle... last 10mm headed bolt on right if I remember correctly ;-)

[abiberacher]

Hello guys,

thank you again to all of you who gave comments about my problems.
All of them are now solved.

Good job !

alex
:bigclap:

[DeLorean]

That prevents static electricity build up. Would not be a good place to have a spark as the filler nozzle came in contact with the metal there.

[Domi]

Welcome to the forum and good to hear everything is fine now.