Where did you end up putting the amp?:confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by jawn101
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Where did you end up putting the amp?:confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by jawn101
Still putting back together my VOD project.......Should be back and running soon.......:wiggle:
Today, I started on the starting circuit repair. First, in order to gain as much slack in the harness as possible, I pushed as many of the bulkhead connectors as I could through the mounting plate. The black connector would not push through because it was melted and therefore misshapen at some point in the past, and the blue one would not push through because it hits the fiberglass body at the top of its mounting hole. (It looks like the mounting plate may have to be tweaked a bit, if possible, to fix this.)
I had to unwrap the harness a bit to gain access to the white/red wires.
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Because of the blue and black connectors being fixed in place, I could not get my fingers on some of the others, but I did manage to push the "problem connector" through. Not only did it have its white/red wires cut off very close to it and a blue wire quick-spliced in their stead, it looks as if the connector itself was subject to overheating at some point in the past.
Attachment 17355
Both of the red/white wires are properly connected to the 3mm pin, and the wires themselves look fine where they were cut. This makes me wonder why they were cut to begin with. I traced them to their ends -- one ends at the Hot Start Relay socket, and the other has been cut off in lieu of the quick-spliced blue wire. The blue wire ends where this other red/white wire would have gone -- the Start Inhibit Relay. The only difference between this hack-job and the stock wiring is that it rendered the Hot Start Relay socket useless.
The repair should be easy to do, now that I have the harness unwrapped. First, remove the two white/red wires from the harness and remove the pins from the bulkhead terminal and relay sockets. Then, measure the old red/white wires for length. Using those measurements, make replacement white/red wires with 3mm pin at one end and tabbed female spade terminals at the other to push into the relay sockets. All of these I ordered from BritishWiring.com.
For the life of me I can't figure why those two white/red wires were cut in the first place. To me they seem to be in fine condition from beginning to end.
I have tested bad connections on a few crimped pins that looked perfectly good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Farrar
Today, I removed the damaged white/red wires from the starting circuit and replaced them.
The two wires have the same 3mm crimp terminal at the bulkhead:
Attachment 17409
One of the wires goes into the Hot Start Relay socket:
Attachment 17410Attachment 17411
The other wire goes into the Start Inhibit Relay socket:
Attachment 17412Attachment 17413
I snaked the new white/red wire into the existing harness to make sure everything was the right length and would wrap up like stock when I am finished. The shape of the harness is held together by wire zip-ties as a temporary measure:
Attachment 17414
Finally, here's the new pin in amongst the old ones, which I will sand and spray clean before plugging back in:
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About one hour's work.
Took the delorean for a drive and the clutch stared dieing. The free play in the pedal got longer and longer. I had to put the clutch all the way to the floor. Then even that wouldn't work. I limped home and got it in the garage. I'm going to look at it tomorrow.
The last car with a hydralic clutch I had was many moons ago. My question is back then brake fluid and clutch fluid were the same thing, is it still?
Yep, same thing - see here for details http://dmctalk.org/showthread.php?6558-Castrol-GTLMAQuote:
Originally Posted by Lenny
But look out - if the fluid is gone it must have gone somewhere, and it will eat your frame, so be sure to clean up any mess carefully!
At -15 and with a foot of snow on the ground, all i did today was take the cover off to check that the car is still there. Storage insurance comes off at the end of May. Most of the snow should be gone by then.
After my massive overhaul over the past month in readiness for a long distance trip across Australia for the DMC MidWest tech day in Sydney, I've been taking her out on a few shakedowns. Her first few went well, including what I thought was a hard long slog.
However, this past weekend I took her away for a trip and (aside from slamming into a kangaroo) that revealed a few minor issues. Firstly every coolant hose began to ever so slightly leak, so have re-tightened the bejesus out of them all. Steering was getting a little loose, tightened that up. Engine cover latch is not quite aligned right after my rear-end disassembly so is banging around a little - tackling that tomorrow night.
Have also reflushed and bled the coolant, there was still a little of the old stuff in the engine itself despite replacing the rest of the entire system so wanted to dilute that down a bit.
Plus have finally started work overhauling the lighting in my engine bay. Removed the old heavily melted unit, drilled out an equivalent spot on the other side, and installed two new units. Have also stuck a large array of SMDs inside each to eliminate the bloody hot bulbs.
Next up some wiring, realignment of the latch, some reassembly, one more shakedown, and a massive clean (she's absolutely filthy from the weekend holiday).
All the above now complete except for the cleaning. Comparison below doesn't do justice as the (now two) lights are pretty washed out by the camera flash.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tillsy
http://dmctalk.org/attachment.php?at...2&d=1363695056