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Check out the NorCal DeLorean group on Facebook. It's a pretty active community, and there are quite a few folks from the Sac area.

Purely anecdotal, but my fans kick on around the 160F mark and generally run for a couple of minutes. 10 minutes seems like a long time at idle to cycle off?

I replaced both of those lines because they were leaking. The one leading up to the transmission was a real PITA. The nut on the transmission side would not spin on its own, and there was no room to...

I've had the dash out before (years ago), and swapped the lights for LEDs, minus the batt light. CA roads are not nice to our cars. The connector may have worked itself loose over time (or perhaps I...

Last (hopefully) follow-up because this happened to me again. But I think I finally found the culprit!

Yesterday I drove my car to work where it sat and heat soaked for quite a few hours. When I...

Picked up a 12 AWG wire from the parts store and moved the fuel pump/inertia switch ground wire to the shifter mounting bolt. My voltage gauge reading is a little more accurate now. :thumbup:
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I would suspect the thermostat is closed shut preventing the water from passing through the pump. They're designed to open when the water is hot enough.

People confuse my AMC Pacer with the Gremlin all the time. :hmm:

Finally got around to installing the "A/C bump" feature that comes with Dave's McKeen's microprocessor idle ECU.

For those wondering which wire you tap into, it's the pink one with the diode in...

Just to follow up for any future readers: The ground cable to the battery was barely hanging on. Apparently it had worked itself loose over time. I went ahead and replaced the 7 year old battery and...

I agree. I have Toby's cooling fan switch where you can dial in the fans so that they kick on at a specific spot on the temperature gauge, but the gauge is never consistent. There are times when the...

Solid advice. Thanks Ron!

I pulled fuse #5, which is the fuse for the dash instruments, while the motor was running and it reacted EXACTLY like it did when I lost my tach signal the other day. I revved the engine and it...

Thanks guys. This gives me a place to start.

Thanks Dave. When you say ignition coil primary, do you mean something along the positive circuit is failing, or is the coil failing?

This issue used to occur every once in a blue moon after I'd go out and start the car if it's been sitting in the sun for a few hours. The issue would resolve itself just by simply restarting the...

Random guy at a gas station asked, "What's the difference between JZD's DeLorean and a regular DeLorean? John's DeLorean weighs one kilo more." I chuckled.

I second Fuel Injection Corp. They are family owned and been in the biz for a long time. In fact, they told me some of our vendors go through them.

They recalibrated my WUR. It looked brand new...

That I can't really answer for as my gov was practically shot when I first bought the car. It does shift nice and smooth though. From what I understand, the original analog computer is prone to bad...

They swap out the old circuitry with modern internals. Definitely worth it.

I discovered I had the same exact leak a month ago. I replaced the stock ISM with a used Volvo unit. The Volvo unit is smaller and runs on less current.

The stock idle system is non-adjustable and will try to compensate for any loads on the system. You have something else going on if your idle runs that high.

Sounds like I'm not alone! In my case, the engine starts and idles fine until I give it gas... then it sounds like it's starving for fuel like something's disconnected. Whatever signals the RPM gauge...

Maybe something funky going on with the ignition ECU?

The first time this happened (about a year and a half ago) I chalked it up as some bizarrely rare anomaly, but then it happened again today.

My car sat in the sun/heat for a couple of hours (as...