What have you done to your DeLorean today?

Discovered why she stalled randomly on me yesterday. Examined the nasty scrape and dent caused by me heroically charging in reverse straight into my roommate's car (luckily it missed the newly painted rear fascia or I'd have just about died..)

I honestly do not recall using a plastic inline splice to feed the ECU. Maybe the madness that caused my PO's mods has infected me. Tomorrow sees a proper soldered connection + bullet connector for ease of removal.

Not a good week. I get to save up to take her to DMC Florida now.

Installed the passenger-side door strut. My girlfriend was finally able to help me out and hold the door open for me while I got that tricky clip installed on the bottom attachment. :lol:

Farrar

Finally broke into the drivers side door to replace the rear latch. Got the upper and lower panels off and spent several minutes examining and fiddling with it. I still haven't disconnected anything yet, I want to be 100% on which pieces go where before I proceed.

Placed new dash mat for the dash I got from Hervy.

Fixed my craig radio to work perfectly, it now has a display and all lights and tape deck work again!

What was it's condition before you started?

My craig is fully functional except the cassette mechanism. The belts are all shot so the mechanicals don't work. Did you have a similar problem? If so, where did you find parts?

Any help would be great because I would love to get it working again.

Steve

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Fixed my craig radio to work perfectly, it now has a display and all lights and tape deck work again!

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Just got my stainless label kit in from Tamir/Russ a few days ago. Love the look! I'm going to find a few hours to put them on over the winter including a little revamping of my engine bay(think LED lights and the clear cover stainless air cleaner)

The labels will definately give a trick look to anyone who pays close attention to details. Here are a few pics, they still have the clear proctetive coating on them, but I took it off of one just to see what it looks like:

http://dmctalk.org/attachment.php?at...3&d=1326302606
http://dmctalk.org/attachment.php?at...4&d=1326302752

Got my girl out of DMC ca the other day having the new exhaust manifold rebolted on, and the stearing bushing replaced. Just washed and polished her up today. I would love to smack the guy who said lets use the turbine look for the rims. What a pain in the ass to clean. Then looked at it for a while as she shined in the sun. Went driving a bit listening to the 80's on XM and keeping an eye on my temp gague seeing if it freaks out again.

Replaced ethanol eaten rubber hoses at my accumulator after finding them leaking. WOW! What a PINA... Nothing like working on your back for an hour in a space only big enough for one hand. I had this done by a Tech when I replaced the accumulator back in 1998, I've only been in Houston 6 years and this ethanol additive in our gas has killed so many fuel components. I am now using a substance to neutralize the bad effects from the ethanol every time I fill up.

Pulled my passenger side rear interior panel. My buddy flopped into the seat yesterday and snapped the armrest extension off. Fortunately the rivets failed and not the plastic! I was able to reattach it, better than new. And as an added bonus I finally got my last new speaker installed. I had been putting it off but since the panel was already out.....

I bought one of those clamp type current meters on eBay. If Bills ground list is correct, I want to rewire the headlights to frame ground. Hence I can find the two ground wires back in the relay box with my new meter.

Why do this? I want to get switched +12 up in front of the car. It would make a really easy job to use one of those existing ground wires.

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I want to get switched +12 up in front of the car.

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Daytime running lights?

Farrar

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Daytime running lights?

Farrar

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Side marker blinking, motorized headlight covers and maybe DRL.

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motorized headlight covers

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:jawdrop:

:worship:

Started installing my new done light timer from Dave. Got dark and late, hope to finish up tomorrow.

After having 4915's rear fascia repainted I noticed the louvers were almost resting on the fascia at the latch. After 30 years the Support Buffers (the rubber strips on either side that the louver rests on) although still there, looked tired. Ordered new ones from DMCH and that solved the problem. There is now maybe a quarter inch clearance from the louver to the fascia ... keeping 4915 happy is a never ending job.

Backed it out and washed it.

I'm gearing up for suspension work.

I want to drive it like crazy, but there's enough rock salt on our roads you'd think it was actually snow!

I recently realized the lack of rock salt doesn't mean our roads are salt free. I saw salt going down in liquid form a week ago. They spray it on out high powered jets. Now when the roads are dry it's plain to see 5 lines of salt as you drive.

Used my new (second hand) clamp on current meter to find the two headlight ground wires in the relay compartment. Works like a charm but I'm sure the newer ones have a smart auto zero. Mine has to be zeroed with an adjustment. But it's a nice unit with two ranges of 20 amp and 200 amp. It just plugs into my normal DVM.

I hope to get the car up on ramps this weekend and get the headlights grounded to the frame. I will then do measurements to calculate the resistance of the frame. I want to know why DMC ran ground wires and not used the frame. Maybe they planned to have a "blown headlight" warning lamp. Or maybe the frame resistance drops to much voltage.

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I want to know why DMC ran ground wires and not used the frame.

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So do I, especially after looking at various folks' ground bus installations. Please let us know what you find! :)

Farrar

Finished the aforementioned dome light timer installation. Parade mode rocks!!

Started trying to troubleshoot my flickering A/C panel lights.

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I want to know why DMC ran ground wires and not used the frame. Maybe they planned to have a "blown headlight" warning lamp.

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That makes a lot of sense, however there would need to be a break in the line for that.

The proto clusters had about 3x the warning lights the production cars ended up with.

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I bought a pair of the original Lund headlight covers on Ebay but didn't like them because I couldn't drive at night with them. So I made these ...

I went to the glass store and bought some clear 1/8" Plexiglas. I made a template and cut out the covers. I then made a form to put a vertical curve on them. I put them in the oven at 250 degrees for about 5 minutes until they were limp and flexible. I removed them from the oven, laid them on the forms and let them cool for about 15 minutes. After stable I applied a 25% tint to them, then attached a rubber edging I bought from McMaster-Carr. Rather than mount them using Velcro like the Lunds I mounted them using hidden O rings as rubber bands. 8)

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I bought a pair of the original Lund headlight covers on Ebay but didn't like them because I couldn't drive at night with them. So I made these ...

I went to the glass store and bought some clear 1/8" Plexiglas. I made a template and cut out the covers. I then made a form to put a vertical curve on them. I put them in the oven at 250 degrees for about 5 minutes until they were limp and flexible. I removed them from the oven, laid them on the forms and let them cool for about 15 minutes. After stable I applied a 25% tint to them, then attached a rubber edging I bought from McMaster-Carr. Rather than mount them using Velcro like the Lunds I mounted them using hidden O rings as rubber bands. 8)

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Very nice work! I did something similiar to 5609 last year. I made a set of covers from tinted lexan which looked great in the daytime, but way too dark to drive at night. I made velcro mounting tabs from small plastic shelf anchors that I modified. I guess the upside was they install/uninstall in 5 seconds, but that made them easy to steal as well. Another possible problem was I really didn't want them on at night anyway as the trapped heat generated when stopped made me worry about possible damage to the fascia or paint.

I never put a curve in mine, but I was tempted to melt the edges to make a mounting tab on each side, but elected on the tabs instead. You should definately do a "how to" on your design. I bet there are a lot of owners that would like tinted or clear covers.

PS, I got my lexan online with a dark tint already in it for very cheap(around 30.00) which was enough to do about 4 covers. I remember there were lighter tints avaliable.
http://dmctalk.org/attachment.php?at...6&d=1317520711

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Very nice work! I did something similiar to 5609 last year. I made a set of covers from tinted lexan which looked great in the daytime, but way too dark to drive at night. I made velcro mounting tabs from small plastic shelf anchors that I modified. I guess the upside was they install/uninstall in 5 seconds, but that made them easy to steal as well. Another possible problem was I really didn't want them on at night anyway as the trapped heat generated when stopped made me worry about possible damage to the fascia or paint.

I never put a curve in mine, but I was tempted to melt the edges to make a mounting tab on each side, but elected on the tabs instead. You should definately do a "how to" on your design. I bet there are a lot of owners that would like tinted or clear covers.

PS, I got my lexan online with a dark tint already in it for very cheap(around 30.00) which was enough to do about 4 covers. I remember there were lighter tints avaliable.

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Wow, it's things like this that make me want to stop trying to keep things looking stock. That looks absolutely amazing!

On topic: Finally fixed my flickering lights in the A/C panel. Planning to go for another lovely January drive today!

Pulled my front grill off today for the first time. I pulled the high beams out so I could get a grip on the grill to pull it. Lots of rust on those ball fasteners but looks like only one of the clips need a new pop rivet. Will have to clean those balls up and put some grease on them when I put it back.

I did this to get at the headlight wires. I see the plate behind the grill is stainless. I also see some more of those connectors in the harness I don't like.

Thinking about also doing the eyebrow bars.

Moved my new seat covers (still in the packaging) from the workbench to the passenger seat of the D. I needed some tools buried beneath. At least the workbench is tidy again.

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Pulled my front grill off today for the first time. I pulled the high beams out so I could get a grip on the grill to pull it. Lots of rust on those ball fasteners but looks like only one of the clips need a new pop rivet. Will have to clean those balls up and put some grease on them when I put it back.

I did this to get at the headlight wires. I see the plate behind the grill is stainless. I also see some more of those connectors in the harness I don't like.

Thinking about also doing the eyebrow bars.

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Been thinking about doing those braces as well. Also considering pulling the headlights to recondition the mounting brackets - I see a little surface rust back there.

Finally finished the coolant change today. Have been chasing leaks all week. Fixed all of those. Tested otterstat. Installed solid state fan and fan-fail relays.

Greased all 4 front ball joints and went for a drive.

Good God. I pulled out my interior, almost all of it, center console, entire passanger side. Installed a touch switch, fog lights in front, wired for two more acessories, pre wired the underglow, removed sanded and re sprayed and greased the passanger seat rails. Dynamatted the center and passanger side and started putting things back together. Tomorrow finish the underglow, remove the drivers side and dynamatt clean and put it all back together. PHEW. So Tired.
I love this car

i havent done anything to mine over the weekend but last week @ school , i almost got the ignition lock off my car, and then a colleague along with me are working on removing the heads on the car. i just need the cam shaft sprocket support tool. where can i get that? PM me anyone please.

still working on the interior of the car, removed the radio that the PO installed and did a piss poor job. He had wires all over the place, what a mess. Things are now making a lot of sense. Hope to install the underglow tomorrow and finish dynamatting the inside.

Just a bit of late night front suspension disassembly, and cleaning, also replaced the lower ball joint boot. Its amazing how filthy the arms have gotten in just a year. Found where the from spring was rubbing on the frame so I fixed that with a hammer. Also confirmed that I never repainted the sway bar, I swear I had.

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...c/SSPX0041.jpg

Failed to install replacement cigarette lighter last night as I was unable to separate the green plastic from the metal cylinder. Succeeded in scraping a few knuckles pretty badly. :lol:

Double-checked contacts on inertia switch. All is well there.

Farrar

Bashed a quarter panel with a mallet.

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What? I'm FIXING it!

I installed one of my new stainless brake lines, the originals are putting up a hell of a fight. also got all the parts together for properly mounting my Mazda Miata Bilstein HDs in the front of the dmc. ill have a how to soon.

Booked her in to my mechanic to get the auto trans leak fixed on 30/1. It will be the first time for her to sleep over somewhere else since coming to Australia. :lol:

It was on Monday, but the last bits that need to have come off, and the heads are ready to be pulled as soon as I get my new ones in from DPI.

With the rain FINALLY coming, I took her for what may be the last real drive of the season. Went to Lowes to get some overhead lighting so it will be easier to rip her apart all winter :)

Nice! how many lights you get? I have 4 in my garage and I still want more

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Nice! how many lights you get? I have 4 in my garage and I still want more

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Just 2 24" double tube fixtures, one on each side of the car... I know I'll need more but wasn't sure what would fit :) Getting the wiring done is proving to be a challenge.