What have you done to your DeLorean today?

A week ago, but forgot to post. Installed DPI Josh’s new injector clamps. Awesome designed little part. Went in without too much trouble, though I had to smooth out the stamped part numbers on the injector to make them fit. And of course cylinders 4/5/6 are a pain in the butt to access.

I’ve had a small vacuum leak around injector #5 for a long, long time now - these sealed it right up! And I’ll never pop an injector on start again (it’s happened 3 times in the 12 years I’ve owned the car)

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Also, I installed the plunger seals around the rear induction vents. Went on super easy and look great. Very happy with the results.

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And then, topped up the brake fluid. The reservoir had dropped some due to pad wear, and the dash light started coming on. Good thing that sensor still works.

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Originally Posted by jawn101

Also, I installed the plunger seals around the rear induction vents. Went on super easy and look great. Very happy with the results.

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That looks great! As an early car steward, I am also missing these and have always wondered if something went there. I never could find it in the parts manual the one time I did look.
What part number was it if you dont mind?

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Originally Posted by JBaker4981

That looks great! As an early car steward, I am also missing these and have always wondered if something went there. I never could find it in the parts manual the one time I did look.
What part number was it if you dont mind?

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See back a couple pages to post 8981 here.

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Originally Posted by JBaker4981

That looks great! As an early car steward, I am also missing these and have always wondered if something went there. I never could find it in the parts manual the one time I did look.
What part number was it if you dont mind?

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Yeah, lmao someone already replied but - there is no P/N for these anymore. They're literally off a plunger.

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Buy 2 of those, pull the black rings off, make a clean straight slit so they can be opened - then just pop them around the induction vents. Perfect match.

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Originally Posted by JBaker4981

That looks great! As an early car steward, I am also missing these and have always wondered if something went there. I never could find it in the parts manual the one time I did look.
What part number was it if you dont mind?

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P/N 106693

The OE part is called a Sponge Ring. Shown as Item 21 in this diagram.

The early cars had them as far as I know. They just weren’t made to last. They turn soft and flatten out, then pull away from the tube they surrounded looking very sad. Until somebody removes them or covers them up as shown in this thread. These plunger rings look legit.

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P/N 106693

The OE part is called a Sponge Ring. Shown as Item 21 in this diagram.

The early cars had them as far as I know. They just weren’t made to last. They turn soft and flatten out, then pull away from the tube they surrounded looking very sad. Until somebody removes them or covers them up as shown in this thread. These plunger rings look legit.

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My car someone took masking tape painted it black and put around it.



Dave B.

Wow! Thank you guys! This is why I still love DMC Talk...

I replaced my fuel filter today. The old filter was replaced when I first got the car a couple years ago. It was a sitting car and I had alot of work on the fuel system. I cleaned the tank as best I could without removing it from the car. Anybody that has done this knows it’s difficult to get a perfect job. Obviously, I didn’t get all the junk out because the car began running rough. Changed the filter and now it seems to be back to normal. I’m hoping that’s the last of it. I’m sort of worried about that junk going through the new fuel pump.

Whole the car was up on jack stands, I changed the clutch slave cylinder. That also seems to be working right now. I might be making a 700 mile trip soon, so I need to get some confidence in the car again.

Curious observation, when the car was running rough, it seem much louder. I really thought the muffler (DPI) was blown out. But after I got it running better, it seems back to normal. The muffler is discolored somewhat in the center which had me worried. I don’t care about the looks, but I thought it might have burnt out some baffles or something. I could probably polish it out, but again, I don’t really care about the looks under the hood.

Recently I noticed an overheating issue starting, so I clocked a couple hours last night bleeding the cooling system. Always fun watching the Champaign bubbles vacate the system. ;) Fans are cycling nicely and the temp is holding where it needs to be.

Followed Chris' suggested footwell lighting instructions and finally set this up! I used similar cheap Chinese LED boards, $17 total cost for LEDs and related wiring hardware. Have white ones installed now, but will likely also buy the RGB variant, for less than $10, that I can plug into the new wiring I've installed and see how well they work as well.

I used piggyback spade connectors to connect to the power (glove box) and ground (left side of blue driver's diode) so I didn't even need to tap into existing wiring! To undo this all I have to do is unplug it and pull the short wire harness I made out.

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For those interested, this is the LED board I used, picture for reference after the link goes dead in a couple years:
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