Farrar's car blog

[dmc6960]

The best construction adhesive you can buy is "PL Premium". You can find it at Menards in the caulking section. Lots of different grades of PL, but Premium is the best. It's Urethane based similar to the windshield adheasive Dave mentioned. As long as the surfaces are clean, it will never come loose.

[Farrar]

I've never heard of Menards but I will look for that product. Thanks!

[qwerk]

I've never heard of Menards but I will look for that product. Thanks!

It's a pretty big hardware store chain here in the Midwest. Worked there from 5am - 9am, M - F the summer before my freshman year of college. Not a bad gig.

[Farrar]

OK, I really need to change out that oil seal and put somewhat of an interior back in the car... A few days ago when the work crew started putting the siding on the next building, I asked if they needed me to move my car. "No, it's not in the way," they said. They put caution tape around it, but today one of my neighbors saw a guy working on the third floor balcony lose his hard hat, and it fell inches from my front bumper! Needless to say, I moved the car when I got home from work today ... but by pushing it instead of driving it. Electrically almost nothing is connected inside, and I was afraid that if I re-connected the battery and turned the key, I'd start blowing fuses.

*sigh* I wish I had more time and money to work on my D... but then again, who doesn't?

Personal note: this morning I heard on the radio that it was the birthday of a writer who decided to move to Oregon and take up mountain climbing, then got a job as a salmon farmer to support his climbing habit. It's backwards from the way most people are taught to think about their jobs, but in a strange way, it makes sense: he knew he'd have a boring job, but always enough money to do what he really loved, even though there was no profit in it. I thought that was an interesting way of looking at things. Anyway, nighty night.

My DeLorean budget is now severely limited by the unexpected $650 I just spent on my daily driver. I probably will not finish my current to-do list before Orlando. *sigh*

[Farrar]

The AFR gauge I bought (before my PT blew my budget, of course) arrived today. I will install it when I get the chance. It has a ten-year warranty -- I'm impressed.

At this point I am not sure I want to go ahead with a complete re-vamp of the car's interior. I may simply do the console and leave it at that -- concentrating instead on getting the engine vacuum-leak-free and the transmission gear-oil-leak-free first, then get the air conditioning going. *sigh* I will never finish this car...

[jawn101]

I will never finish this car...

Finishing's no fun It's a journey, not a destination.

Even if you don't agree, keep telling yourself that

[stevedmc]

Sweet. Does the AFR gauge just hook up to an oxygen sensor?

For what it's worth, I checked my plugs using Bill's dual plane manifold and size 48 jets. My plugs are perfect.

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[Farrar]

Sweet. Does the AFR gauge just hook up to an oxygen sensor?

Correct, but only a narrowband one like the DMC-12 originally came with. The fancy wideband sensors like the EFI folks have are too awesome for this unit.

It has a digital readout which will indicate levels from 8.82 to 19.1, and next to it an LED which will indicate yellow (lean), green (stoich), or red (rich).

Farrar

[Bitsyncmaster]

Correct, but only a narrowband one like the DMC-12 originally came with. The fancy wideband sensors like the EFI folks have are too awesome for this unit.

It has a digital readout which will indicate levels from 8.82 to 19.1, and next to it an LED which will indicate yellow (lean), green (stoich), or red (rich).

Farrar

I would only trust that indicated value around 14.7. That is all a narrow band sensor can do. That is why they had to develop the wide band sensors.

[Farrar]

I would only trust that indicated value around 14.7. That is all a narrow band sensor can do. That is why they had to develop the wide band sensors.

I wondered about that... the gauge can only be as accurate as the information it's given.

In other news, it looks like my interior redesign is going to be placed on hold. My car is being treated like a piece of furniture by the construction crew working on my apartment building, so I need to get it moving again. If I have driven it to work, they can't eat their lunch on it. (I am threatening to sue the company if any damage arises from this mistreatment, and will report them to the BBB as soon as I have their name, phone number, and address.)

Once again, the DeLorean suffers from its movie star status and becomes, in the minds of plebes, "public property." What. The. Fuck. People.