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Got any pics of the LEDs? I was really unhappy with the ones I put in my brakes and turn signals (brakes not bright enough, turn signals not amber enough) and ended up going back to traditional bulbs.Quote:
Originally Posted by DMC5180
Congrats on getting out of the garage!
Decided spring was really over, hooked up the battery and took out my personal car at home.
Ran it for a while in the driveway to make sure everything was still in order after storage for the winter.
Ran out of gas - in the driveway.
Went to the gas station for some fresh gas
Finally got to take the first drive of the year!
Weather looks good, I'll likely daily-drive it this week. Time for some final tweaks to the power steering unit installed last year.
No pics yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by jawn101
These are ALL Brighter than the standard bulbs (no Hot spots either). I do agree the Amber is too yellow, but then I'm not the one looking at them when in use :-). It's funny I tried the Amber SMD in the Tail position and it lit near up near perfect amber through the red lens. Putting a red Unit in the amber lens (showed through as RED unfortunately) I'm going see If i can find a suitable red translucent tape and wrap the Amber unit and see if that is enough shift the output to a more orange appearance.
Finished prepping my parts car for shipping out to its new owne. Also replaced the broken ball joint and bent upper control arm and topped off the brake fluid for bleeding tomorrow.
Don't you mean Winter is finally over :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by DMCMW Dave
Possible T-storms Thursday with light rain into Friday up here. Hopefully Indy will be better.
I am starting to think there are more pieces of my car removed than there are still in it.
The final piece to come out before everything new and old goes back in is this miserable little bolt holding the last of the seatbelts in place. It is the passenger side receptacle bolt. If it isn't pretty much fused right to the head of the bolt with rust. I have gotten the bolt itself free within the threads, but I can only spin it out about a half a turn as the receptacle bottoms out on the fiberglass floor. I have been PB Blastering it, impact gun-vibrating it, and while trying to keep the bolt head in position, whack the receptacle with a hammer to try and break it free. None of the pieces need to survive as I have replacements for pretty much all of it.... well, except the threaded collar itself that this bolt is threaded into, as I am being paranoid/cautious of whacking it too hard for fear of this collar getting damaged. It is trying my patience to say the least... good thing the weather is nice and the golf course is right around the corner :)
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Continued body work on the lower engine lid, I really hope the reinforcements last and dont crack again.
Ahh yes, I can finally chime in on this as well. I too took my first drive of the year today. Ran it in the driveway for a while checking everything out. Low fuel light came on. But I did not run out of gas. Drive it to the station, filled up and went for about a 10 mile drive. Taking it to work tomorrow. Good day.
Hooked up the trickle charger to the disconnected battery while I worked a little bit on the interior wiring -- removed and replaced damaged wire/terminals in rear area of interior harness, removed incorrect terminals and replaced with correct ones.
Started troubleshooting the door and interior lights. Suspect bad diodes (red, blue). Need to source replacement. Suggestions?
Replaced inner door seals. Tore one. Dammit.
Really annoyed with the sagging of the headliner -- can see dome light through gap at top of windshield. Baby steps.
Went to the body shop to see the progress on the car. It's all done and better than before it was damaged - all for free! The only thing is that I've had to order some new little rivet clip things to hold the grille in place since the others were broken during the repair. In the meantime, it's going to another shop tomorrow to have all the rubber coolant hoses replaced. Some of them are original and are looking pretty worn.
Hopefully I can have the car for this weekend back up and running.
4516 was a bit soft on the clutch pedal. Checked underneith and saw the clutch master cylinder a bit "wheepy". Replaced both cylinders. The D is feeling much better. :-D
~Roland
Finished replacing the accumulator and took it out for the first drive of the year! After driving my 928 for the last month, the DMC feels like a donkey-cart....still brings lots of smiles though!!!
Installed an idler pulley bearing I've had in a box for a while, I was getting a high pitch squeal from the old one so I figured it was time. Should have replaced both when I did the other one previously, but didn't have the right tools at the time so had to wait until now.
Went to do an inventory of needed parts to refresh my fuel pump. Decided against my better (short-term) financial judgement to just get the new pump combo unit. Check your email, Midwest folks...
Started planning my garage overhaul to make more room for tools and supplies. Since buying the D my storage needs have certainly ballooned from a screwdriver and a weed whacker...
I continued headliner repairs and found the source of my cooling fan failure. Also discovered one of my dash lights was flickering because the bulb went bad, found another bad LED too. Time to order more.
Today I reassembled everything from the tank (freshly steam cleaned) back to the engine on my car. New fuel pump and soft lines, pick up filter, and wiring. I pulled and installed a new accumulator and replaced the fuel filter. The accumulator went well....THAT F'N fuel filter was another story. Who on earth put that damn thing there? I also ziptied the fuel and water lines away from the exhaust manifolds. 4.5 hours of work in on the D today. Felt good, now my arm hurts.
Clint,Quote:
Originally Posted by vwdmc16
What was the source of your cooling fan failure?
Can you say more about the reinforcements you put in?Quote:
Originally Posted by vwdmc16
I've been thinking about an AL bar (1/8in) across the back of the engine cover between the brackets. Painted black and bolted through to the engine side if the cover. The goal being to counteract rt he bend when the cover is suspended on the point in the middle.
That's what I did, except I put it almost all the way across on the back side (else I'd post a pic) and used pop rivets (better hold and harder to see).Quote:
Originally Posted by DrJeff
Took 2743 for an short evening drive to return DVDs.
Combination of no inst cluster lights and nasty burning smell forced a hasty retreat. Noted that the lighting rheostat was too hot to touch. Not good. Spent a fraught 15 minutes after shutting her off watching in case of spontaneous combustion.
Assuming that the rheostat is the culprit, I think I will be decommissioning it and using a 3-way jumper instead. $100 for a replacement seems pointless for a feature I don’t need anyway.
:eek1: Yikes!!! Horrible feeling, I know all too well...Quote:
Originally Posted by Dangermouse
(Yesterday) Applied POR-15 to some areas requiring touch-ups in the rear of the car. It is now rock hard and no more unsightly little rusty areas. Now I just have to find some grey paint that looks right. (I can't get Rustoleum Smoke Grey here).
Also, good idea or bad idea: painting the hidden side of the fuel tank closing plate with POR-15 after brake fluid damage?
That's what I did to my closing plate. Turned out great
Great idea. Uncoated it will rust out from the inside. that is where all the rainwater from the windshield goes.Quote:
Originally Posted by pezzonovante88
lol, so weird. Well, maybe I'll get to it this weekend.Quote:
Originally Posted by DMCMW Dave
With 1258 now in daily driver status, I'm becoming most adept at removing door panels...FML.
After getting new tires ordered at the local TireRack yesterday, I decided to take a good look at the tires I have now. I knew I was getting a few bald spots, but boy was I wrong! I got chords showing on one of them! :ohcrap: She'll sit now until the new tires are mounted. On the plus side, my new radio, a Pioneer DEH-X9500BHS should arrive in the mail today or tomorrow. Should be able to get that installed this weekend.
And no longer casually for sale?Quote:
Originally Posted by thirdmanj
Meh. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by dmc6960
Changed the cap and rotor to evidently finally solve the miss I was experiencing. Installed 6 new injectors as well.
Eight hours of hell replacing the front left suspension spring (and shock at same time) - what an absolute b#tch that was!
Reckon I have it licked though, front right should only take two hours but won't get to that for another week.
Will aim for rears over next few days as they look piss easy to me.
Washed and shined it up for the British show on Sunday. Dug out the Mr. Clean Autodry thing I bought years ago (before the D even) and decided to give it a try. It did a fantastic, effortless job on the stainless and I will be using that from now on.
Also wiped down every inch of vinyl and leather inside with a damp microfiber. I can't remember the last time I bothered to do that and the results were awesome. I didn't realize how dirty everything was :) Vinyl cleaners be damned, I say.
Still having water coming in to the passenger side footwell from the blower motor when I wash it slanted on the driveway though. Not sure what to do about that. The drain isn't blocked, but I guess because of the incline of my driveway the box doesn't drain properly and water comes from the blower cooling tube.
Edit: Wow, I'm dumb. I just thought of this after 3 years.... park the car nose down...
I had to go to the Dentist so I thought I'd at least have some fun so I drove the Delorean. Stopped by FedEx to mail a package and a guy walked up and asked to take a picture. He waited till I came out. While in FedEx one of the employees looked out and screamed I think that's a Delorean. I told him it was mine and he followed me out. When he saw the guy taking a picture he asked also. So I raised the doors and took pictures of them standing buy the car with their cell phones.
I spent this afternoon removing the old foam under the parcel shelf - it smelled really bad. Discovered a mouse nest behind the rear bulkhead panel!! They had chewed quite a bit of foam. They had almost chewed through some wires but only removed the black wrapping... the little farkers...
The shelf foam was really tough to remove, it broke up as I pulled it away. Some of it was practically welded to the fibreglass and had to be taken off with a paint scraper.
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Originally Posted by MML
Some Scrubbing Bubbles or Kaboom foaming cleaner (or your local equivalent, this is the stuff I mean http://www.amazon.com/Church-Kaboom-...ds=kaboom+foam) will melt that foam right off the fiberglass, along with any dirt, etc. And as a bonus the fiberglass will be gleaming black and so sterile you can eat off it (smells nice too, which is a bonus if you had mold or mice, etc). Spray it on, wait til it turns white, then wipe up all the old foam residue and glue and such in one pass. When I did my car I didn't even scrape up the old carpet pad. I just sprayed this stuff all over everything and came back in a half hour.
As a bonus, it also works wonders on any other exposed fiberglass in the car - the boot, engine bay, wheel wells, undercarriage... you name it.
Well I'll be damned. I wonder if we can get that over here. I'll have a look for it!Quote:
Originally Posted by jawn101
Installed a new radio. Pioneer DEH-X9500BHS which is one of their higher-end 2013 CD receivers. Has a built in HD radio tuner, "satellite ready" with tuner which I also bought, direct iPhone compatibility, and my favorite: custom color illumination. I have that now set at a matching green to the AC decal. Sounds way way better then the cheap low-end Sony radio I installed in 2001.
I've worked on my hot start problem.
So, I've changed those two seal without any problem.
Now, the fuel accumulator is another story :confused2:
To unscrew the four bolt wasn't easy, but finally I made it.
I spend the all afternoon on those two big bolt to unscrew them and change the two hoses, but it was impossible.
I'll try later, as a friend on the French forum advice me to unbolt them from the inside of the car.
I just bought a new Pioneer for my D as well!. Mines not as nice as yours, but it does have the custom color option, which is what I wanted. It looks fairly inconspicuous.Quote:
Originally Posted by dmc6960
Showed it at the UBSCC Sacramento British Car Show. Was pleased to take 2nd in the DeLorean class, losing out only to Stephen and #3130, a loss in which there is definitely no shame.