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Funny you should say that. I have an old Bulova wrist watch that my dad's late uncle had. It needs a restoration but it's probably not worth what it would cost.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...25fcde925e.jpgQuote:
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Keep an eye on eBay and see what they sell for, you never know.. maybe someone wore one in The Godfather or something!
We worked on the car today from 12:00 to 7:00P. As usual things took four times longer than they should. Such is the way of restoring a Delorean that sat in a barn for 20 years.
I started by fixing some of the original insulation and adding some new insulation on the outside of the box.
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I decided to just drill out the holes for the missing studs and installed stainless steel bolts with loctite.
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I grabbed some foam tape off the shelf for the damper doors.
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We installed the dampers into the HVAC box.
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The foam tape seemed to work pretty well. We lubed the rods before installation.
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The new heater core next to the original one.
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We started rolling out the duct seal and laying it in place.
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The heater section all set up.
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We used a different type of seal on this door. It didn't come out perfectly but it should be fine.
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I didn't get a picture of it but we used panel bond to adhere the screen to the outlet side of the evaporator.
While the was drying we worked on other stuff on the car.
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Next we cleaned out the fresh air intake duct by blowing compressed air in through the drain hole.
Note- with all the work we have done on the car I never knew this drain hole existed until recently.
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After that was all cleaned out we cleaned the surface where metal screening was going to be installed.
I laid down a bead of RTV silicone.
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Sorry no after picture with the screen installed. I'll try to get one next time.
Others in the community told that the seal onto the fresh air intake fails as the cars get older and there is leakage onto the passenger floor.
I'm not sure I really believe this. If feels and looks like good RTV silicone still in really good shape. Just for the heck of it "While you're in there" I put a layer of RTV over the original RTV.
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While I was doing this the dogs but decided to jump up into the car. They don?t like being too far from us.
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I had Tam read the instructions for the steering shaft derlin bushing.
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She knocked the old bushing out.
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We used a 3/8"x3" bolt and a 1-1/8" socket to press the bushing into place. It went HARD! We stopped and pulled the bolt out a couple times to make sure that something wasn't wrong.
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Eventually, it moved fully into place.
I put a bead of RTV silicone around the bushing on the inside and outside.
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We moved back to the HVAC box. We put new thick foam tape on the new evaporator.
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We set the evaporator in place and put sealing putty on the seam.
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This is the part that took four times as long as we thought it would. We could get the slots to line up with the tabs all the way around the box. We banged, pushed, pulled. We took it apart, we put it back together again. We finally got it but it was a huge pain.
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We put putty on the end of the box and installed the damper assembly.
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We go all done then found this. This is a bracket that helps to hold the heater core in place. The heater core is solidly locked in place so I'm not sure why it is even there. I made the decision to not tear the HVAC box apart again to install this bracket.
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I found it funny that the factory went to such great measures to seal up the HVAC box (as did we) but there are huge gaps around the heater core pipes.
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