Ask Bill about carbing a DeLorean and other K-Jet/Carb tangets

[ramblinmike]

So where is your drain located?

Passenger side of the console. You can see it by pulling the carpet back in the passenger side of the car under the center part of the dash. Bill has a pic of the drain in an earlier post. I did the coil-boot mod he was talking about last summer. I can go outside with my camera and take a pic if you need me to. (I'm w/my kid at the moment and the garage isn't an option right now...)

[ramblinmike]

I'm sure the air hose seemed like a good idea on paper, but in actual practice it doesn't as well as planned.

It wasn't planned by DMC. In it's original intended application on GM cars, that blower motor faces down instead of up like on the D. The blower is mounted on top of the A/C box and would never be anywhere near water.

[content22207]

I bet the combined effects of clogged condensation drains and water sloshing towards the passenger side of the car have led to a disproportionate number of premature blower motor failures.

Note also that a clogged windshield plenum drain will cause rainwater to fill the evaporator box (through the fresh air door).

Bill Robertson
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[stevedmc]

It wasn't planned by DMC. In it's original intended application on GM cars, that blower motor faces down instead of up like on the D. The blower is mounted on top of the A/C box and would never be anywhere near water.

Well at least we have something to be thankful for on these cars. It would be a total pain to replace the part if it was mounted with the motor facing down. At least my lifetime warranty part can be replaced in a matter of minutes when it does decide to quit working.

[ramblinmike]

Well at least we have something to be thankful for on these cars. It would be a total pain to replace the part if it was mounted with the motor facing down. At least my lifetime warranty part can be replaced in a matter of minutes when it does decide to quit working.

...yeah but on the GM application it is under the hood on top. Literally nothing in the way!

[Farrar]

Bill, did you install a heater core bypass or am I thinking of someone else's car?

Thanks,
Farrar

[content22207]

No bypass -- my heater core is very much active (that is where my radiator bleeds to, rather than the lower radiator pipe, which has been replaced with a length of hose, making it *SO* much easier to install than that stupid factory pipe with the bleeder nipple, which apparently doesn't work worth a damn because people are having to pull their bleeder hoses off their radiators to bleed them manually, or buy a collection of plumbing fittings to rig up a manual valve, still necessitating laying down in front of the car, both of which could be so easily avoided by simply putting a tee one of the heater core lines and letting the radiator bleed itself automatically).

Bill Robertson
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[ramblinmike]

No bypass -- my heater core is very much active (that is where my radiator bleeds to, rather than the lower radiator pipe, which has been replaced with a length of hose, making it *SO* much easier to install than that stupid factory pipe with the bleeder nipple, which apparently doesn't work worth a damn because people are having to pull their bleeder hoses off their radiators to bleed them manually, or buy a collection of plumbing fittings to rig up a manual valve, still necessitating laying down in front of the car, both of which could be so easily avoided by simply putting a tee one of the heater core lines and letting the radiator bleed itself automatically).

Bill Robertson
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Man, that is a good idea.

[content22207]

RadiatorBleedLine.jpg

Bill Robertson
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[ramblinmike]

Does it matter which heater core line? I'd think the return line would be the way to go.