Stuck home sick today so decided to change my brake fluid - has been precisely two years since I completely rebuilt the system.
Good opportunity to finally give the one-man approach a go - quite surprised how well that went.
Location: Adelaide
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Stuck home sick today so decided to change my brake fluid - has been precisely two years since I completely rebuilt the system.
Good opportunity to finally give the one-man approach a go - quite surprised how well that went.
Location: New Brunswick, Canada
Posts: 257
My VIN: 4266, Previously 11056
I am having this problem too. My voltage is never up to 13. It always sits close to the orange tick right below 13. Would you mind posting a link to that video? I had no idea what that gauge should read normally, and would love to try this if mine is wrong.Originally Posted by rdarlington
Location: Buffalo MN
Posts: 760
My VIN: 897 5 spd,
I had the same problem until I improved the ground by running a ground wire to the front and connected the ground junctions to it. Prior to upgrading the ground, the volt meter always looked a bit anemic. So your low voltage reading at the dash may be a ground problem. To check the voltage, use a volt meter and check the voltage at various points. You'll likely see a difference between idle and higher RPM such as 2,000RPM. To see if the gauge is seeing a ground problem, jumper (jumper cables will work) from the ground junction found just above the gas pedal (or near there) to the battery NEGATIVE. If it reads more accurate, you may want to consider a ground bus add.
Nick
- No matter how many people believe in a dumb idea ... it is still a dumb idea!
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Location: Stevens Point,WI
Posts: 2,546
My VIN: 6125
How did the old brake fluid look after you flushed it out? I've heard it will start to get pretty brown after just a couple years compared to the fresh amber colored fluid. I'm coming up on two years next spring to do mine.
Was your one man approach done with a pressure bleeder? If not, how did you go about doing it yourself?
Location: Adelaide
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My VIN: 6679
I'm pretty annoyed with myself actually - when I rebuilt the system and saw how bad it was, I promised myself I'd do it annually. But after two years - yep it was very very brown
It was the cheap little bottle with check valve - so you still pump the brake pedal to push the fluid through, but can leave the nipple open without the hold and close technique as the fluid and air doesn't suck back in. Worked fantastic except for front right - as the first front I didn't take into account the 60/40 difference in the master cylinder and thus more fluid came through for same number of pedal pushes. Bottle overflowed and I had brake fluid everywhere - doh!
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Posts: 266
My VIN: 10904
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB2NpX4c_aA
The key thing is the battery light never lights up when you turn the key. If it doesn't, it's either burned out or disconnected which would cause this issue. It's a 161 bulb (161LL at autozone) and comes in a 2 pack for $4.95 or so.
-Bob
Location: Fort Lauderdale
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Gave up on it and said "Better luck next year."
3.0L, automatic, carbureted
Location: Burnsville MN-Moving to Kalispell MT. in June 20111
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My VIN: 2691
entered Kalispell MT Glacier street rod car show july 19, in Heritage Days parade at Columbia Falls MT july 26, Show n' shine car show Evergreen MT Aug 2 ,,Flathead County fair parade Kalispell MT [won 30" trophy] And will enter Rumble in The Bay car show in Bigfork MT Aug 31. I could have gone to over 200 car
shows this summer in Montana. I seem to be the only rolling DeLorean in all of northwest MT.
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Location: Burnaby, BC
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Brought 3922 to a transmission shop close by to check my final drive gear oil level as I had constant drips of gear oil under the car.
They said that the level was fine and tightened the nuts along the split seal and the drain. No drips so far (knock on wood)!
They were pretty cool. They loved the car, took a lot of shots and did the check "on the house"! Awesome!
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Location: Los Alamos, NM
Posts: 266
My VIN: 10904
LED conversion done this weekend for the binnacle. An added bonus was that brake light that now lights up for the first time since I got the car. When I was in there replacing the battery light, I actually did replace the one for the brake indicator, but it never lit up. Maybe turning that bulb mount twice was what it took to clean the contacts. Bonus! While the binnacle was out the 2nd time I painted it with the SEM 17333 charcoal gray fabric dye stuff before putting it back in. I also managed to order two more cans of this recently discontinued product for when I do the dash someday.
I also figured out that Bar Keepers Friend takes out those hard water stains I had on my car. Sweet, they're gone. Vinegar, stainless polish, CLR, blending pad, etc, all failed. This stuff worked and it was pretty effortless. I used some bottle of liquid. I hear it comes as a powder too but haven't tried that.
Lubricated the lower speedo cable and now that gage is nice and smooth. I'm about 150 miles away from hitting 5000 on the clock after doing a 50 mile round trip ride to wally world (walmart).
Sun shade was ordered from amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001Y5DB4C - $47.99 delivered.
-Bob
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