What have you done to your DeLorean today?

Put the seats in. Having no carpet makes the stud holes easier to find. Nonetheless, I learned something; put the studs nearest the console in first, that way you can just make sure everything is lined up on the side that you can SEE. I did it the other way around, and while feeling where the rear stud was, the seat came down and bit a chunk out of my middle finger. :(

Fun conversation with the girlfriend:

"Cleaning the rust off that wrench again?"
"No, not this time. This time it's blood."
"Do I want to know?"
"Probably not."
"OK, then."

:lol:

if youre not bleeding youre not working hard enough! :biggrin:

With a little help from Dave S, fixed the high idle Clint and I caused during our air meter rebuild this weekend. Turned out to be simple - we either knocked off or neglected to reinstall the electrical connector to the vacuum advance solenoid. Hooked that back up (finding it back there was the hardest part) and set the mixture perfectly. Result is a nice smooth idle, with no hunting and no gas smell in the exhaust.

Washed it. It got covered in pollen and shit just from sitting in my driveway while I worked on it over the past few days.

It was gross, now it's clean and shiny.

Finally got the shock replaced on the left rear and repainted the spring.
What a pain that was....I really have a fear of compressed springs :nervous:

Today I solved some little irritations.

1. Re-enforced the support bracket of the cooling pipe below the expansion bottle.
That bracket is too weak to hold up the weight of the cooling pipes/hoses and by sagging it rips the air inlet hose where the hose meets the screw of the bracket.

2. Replaced the Rheostat for a new model which has a bit higher resistance (100 Ohm) but also nicely regulates power to the LEDS in the instruments panel.

A wash and a drive. Also made a slightly better CO plug out of a rubber bumper stop that I shaved down a bit. The one on the stick wasn't quite big enough to seal, and the stick was too tall and kept getting knocked down by the engine cover.

Bought a replacement cross-reference AC blower motor. Got the correct PM106 this time which turns the correct direction. I checked before I bought it. Back in 2001 I got the PM105 which turned the wrong way and for the past 11 years I've had it wired backwards. Certainly one advantage of having a "plastic" car.

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Originally Posted by dmc6960

Bought a replacement cross-reference AC blower motor. Got the correct PM106 this time which turns the correct direction.

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Is that the Four Seasons brand one? I installed it in my car and it works fine. Some of the other cross-reference blower motors don't seem to have the right length stud for the squirrel cage.

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Originally Posted by dmc6960

Bought a replacement cross-reference AC blower motor. Got the correct PM106 this time which turns the correct direction. I checked before I bought it. Back in 2001 I got the PM105 which turned the wrong way and for the past 11 years I've had it wired backwards. Certainly one advantage of having a "plastic" car.

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Hmmm. I bought a new AC blower at a Napa around then. I always thought the blower was weak. Wonder if I have the same problem.