its lonely here in DeLorean Wasteland, NE. :mecry:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dracula
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its lonely here in DeLorean Wasteland, NE. :mecry:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dracula
I'm surprised the guys at DMC-CA didn't say anything about that when you had your car there for service.Quote:
Originally Posted by jfirios
Last night I installed the repaired transmission mount and took the car for one last 200 mile drive. Unfortunately fixing the mount alone did not realign the crossgate. Not wanting to spend any more precious time fixing it, I drove it as-is. This means lifting up on the shifter for first and second gears, and no available reverse. I'll finish fixing that during winter. Salt is expected to fly today, so assuming it does I'm done for the season.
Pulled my battery ground wire today for the new replacement. The ground wire terminals looked pretty good with the factory soldering still looking good. I was thinking of doing the extra ground to the transmission but I think it's better just adding another ground wire to the drivers side engine mount.
Worked on it all day, added neon tubes and led strips in the trunk compartment, removed the OLD rear speakers and added a small 6 in box with two speakers and tweets, cleaned up the under dash wireing and found more bolts missing that are needed to hold down the binicle, cut my hand while installing the stereo, wahsed and shined my girl up.
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Such a beautiful day today (70 deg). Went for a drive and found a change to put into my idle ECU software. My car was sitting outside in the sun and I just noticed the tape marks where they had the bumper protectors on when they shipped it. I see it on three corners so I guess my paint is original. Also my engine LED is back to full brightness today.:yesss:
Got fed up with waiting for the body shop and decided to tool around the neighborhood for a few minutes. Realized that I REALLY MISS driving my car..
Re-ran the USB cables from my head unit to my iPod nano. Velcroed the iPod to the underside of the ashtray. Fits perfectly, is easy to remove to change music, and is completely invisible. Love it! Also removed/reinstalled my climate panel to correct an issue with the back lights flickering. Seems better now.
Bought a sheet of 1/32" gasket material at AutoZone. Cut it to fit between the adapter plate and the intake manifold. Put the carburetor back on and connected all wires and hoses. Realized I left the battery plugged in all this time the car's been sitting and it only had about 10v left in it. Oops.
Started and idled the engine for several cycles of the cooling fans. Verified that my new cooling fan circuit works flawlessly. Volt gauge reads 13.5 even with stock fans.
After the engine had been running for a while, I happened to lean against the left front fender and felt heat on my leg! None of the other fenders felt that warm (in fact they were cool to the touch), so I thought it was electrical, until I opened up the trunk and felt heat on non-metallic surfaces, then opened up the access panel above the brake fluid reservoir. I didn't see any loose wires, so I suppose the heat was simply rising straight up from the radiator, with the occasional help of the cooling fans blowing the heat straight back. The initial worry when I felt that left front fender, though, was severe. I think I got a new grey hair then.
My car also now has "daytime running lights" (parking lights on when key is on) and -- finally -- functioning courtesy lights again.
Engine still misses badly, but does not stall. I can live with that for now.
Farrar