What have you done to your DeLorean today?

[Dangermouse]

Changed oil and filter.
Replaced oil sender and seal (the warning light one).
Went to British Car Day in Oakville with a dozen other DeLoreans and about a thousand other UK cars.

Wow, that's a lot of cars !!! Makes our local British show seem minuscule.

I guess it's a hold-over from being part of the commonwealth all those years

[Jonathan]

Wow, that's a lot of cars !!! Makes our local British show seem minuscule.

I guess it's a hold-over from being part of the commonwealth all those years

I think they bill the show as the largest in North America and I think they might be right!!

I can only tell you what I see from growing up in little towns or living in bigger cities later in life, but most/many communities have a lot of people with English, Scottish or Irish backgrounds. And based on the accents, quite often were born overseas and came to Canada during their lifetimes (whereas their kids often don't have the accents because of growing up here). Those kind of folks are often in that retirement age and ripe for owning old cars. Perfect storm so to speak to see the volumes we do at these shows here. A nice combination for them as maybe they get the chance to be around so many like minded people that share something beyond just the cars. This show has vendors set-up with car stuff, yes, but also vendors with food from "back home," UK videos and DVDs, books and other things. They had a few WWII D-Day vehicles there fully decked out which I thought were really terrific.

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[mr_maxime]

Replaced a marker light socket and put the stainless steel coolant bottle in

[mr_maxime]

Finally put the piece of side moulding that fell off driver door back on.

[DMC-81]

Now that it's mobile, I'm focusing in the appearance. First thing is having the rear fascia painted....

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[iflights]

1. Replaced both mirrors with Tom@delorana convex mirrors.
2. Readjusted brake light switch to activate on a light press of the pedal. Before, the pedal had to be pressed hard down before lights would activate. Found out why...the 2nd nut was not on the switch shaft.

[novadmc]

front blinkers got LED bulbs (1157) installed @ lunch.
just have the binnacle lights left to convert to LED, but I've been lazy to tackle removing that.

[cpistocco]

I really wish BFG would bring back the radial TA in a 195. Love those tires. BFG are the best.

My 205 ta's fit great and look great NO problems.....and you get your raised whites!!!

[sdg3205]

My 205 ta's fit great and look great NO problems.....and you get your raised whites!!!

Pictures or lies!

[bfloyd]

Spent the evening last night in the garage removing the Automatic Transmission Shift Computer / Governor thing... I'm sending off the whole unit out to be repaired / replaced, so I ended up removing the whole thing from the car.

Drained the transmission fluid and dropped the pan. Pulled the electrical connection from the solenoid connector out and got it free. Removed the switch connector and finally removed the governor circuit box itself out of the side of the transmission. Using the "How to:" guide posted here on the forums, I then proceeded to remove the electrical connector box from the engine bay and push it down below the car. Easier said than done. "Find a gap between the firewall and engine bay" says the instructions.. I tried for 2 hours last night to get that connector box down through any resemblance of a gap between the engine and firewall. Vacuum hoses, wiring harness, the main fuel line from the filter to the distributor, and some big-ass square plug with a cap on it all seem to be in the way. I tried from the top. I tried from the bottom. At 15 minutes after 2 a.m., I called it quits and went inside. I'm so close to getting this done, but I just can't see a way of getting it out without disconnecting the main fuel line. I really don't want to do that since I don't have a single leak in the fuel system anywhere on the car, and really don't want to create one.

Anybody got any advise on this from previous experience?