What have you done to your DeLorean today?

[Helirich]

I drove mine in the snow for the first time. Seems to get good traction. I didn?t go very far.

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Stainless stays cold for awhile.

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[82DMC12]

I've got plenty happening right now, but honestly one of the last jobs left to do on my car. The only two parts of my car that I have never touched is the HVAC box and the roof box. HVAC box is working great now that I re-sealed the foam on the back side of it. I had nothing better to do so I decided it was time to clean up and repaint my roof box as well as inspect it for any troubling damage. The visible part near the hinges has some peeling paint and surface rust. I removed the louvers and T-panel and found the top of the box is quite nice aside from some peeling paint on the front half of it, along with more surface rust but nothing eaten through. I opened the plate where the plugs are and everything is super clean inside. I ran my shitty 15 year old Harbor Freight endoscope into the box and saw zero rust, however I have a much better new articulating scope on the way so I'll check it again. I plan to spray Waxoyl inside the box and then do a repaint of the exterior with POR15. To do the sides of the roof box I will remove the torsion bars for better access and replace all the hinge hardware.

In preparation for this work I built the classic wood torsion bar adjustment jig, as depicted in the Winter '86 DeLorean World mag.

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[DMC5180]

Andy,

Seems like that DW tech article or at least the Plans for the support tool should be placed in the ?Resources? archive, if it doesn?t already exist.


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[82DMC12]

Andy,

Seems like that DW tech article or at least the Plans for the support tool should be placed in the ?Resources? archive, if it doesn?t already exist.


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If it's not already in there, when I get home from a work trip this week I will scan it in.

Last year I decided it was a shame I didn't have a full set of DeLorean World magazines so I bought a few lots from other owners and was able to piece together every issue from volume one issue one to somewhere around 2013.

Many of those early magazines had very good and valuable technical resources in them. Some of them I have seen reproduced and shared, others seem to have been lost to time and yet are still useful.

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[Patrick C]

[JBaker4981]

While Andy is futzing with his roofbox, what have I done to the DeLorean today? I glanced in its direction and it's still in the garage. Hard days work.

[Mark D]

*Tech Article*

Pretty cool to see that tech procedure for adjusting the torsion bars. I've seen it done that way with the wooden jig by the guys at DMCMW when they re-secured my roof box to the fiberglass underbody and it worked very well. Never had a reason to build a jig myself, but it's nice to know the plans are available if I needed to.

[JETS 81 DMC]

Interesting part within the article is the heat shield to reduce fuel pump temps.

I had not seen that before.

[Timeless]

Interesting part within the article is the heat shield to reduce fuel pump temps.

I had not seen that before.

FYI with the Delphi fuel pump I don't have any fuel pump noise even in uber hot S. Florida summer temps and traffic. Car is EFI. Would I consider a heat shield? For sure.

[82DMC12]

It used to be that many of the clubs had a "community jig" and they would do torsion bar adjustments at tech sessions. I've seen it used at a Minnesota MNDMC meet in the past, and I believe my Dad and I even made a partial version of it over 20 years ago to do a quick adjustment to one of my bars way back in the day but I forgot all about it (when I showed my dad this picture he reminded me of it). It's not strictly necessary, I've assisted with adjustments before without it but the nice thing about this jig it allows the second person (breaker bar holder) to stand on the other side of the car so he's not in the way of the other person struggling with the spline plate.