What have you done to your DeLorean today?

[Stainless]

Well I picked up my bracket off the firewall and the two trailing arm covers from the powder coating place.

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Don't you know that anyone that still uses their trailing arm cover is a gosh dang commie?
Reference: http://dmctalk.org/showthread.php?13...ghlight=commie

[seventy4burban]

Gosh I had no idea trailing arm covers were such a hot topic. I figured I would clean them, clean the frame area around them, put them back on and be done with them.

I live in Yuma so water and mud aren't on the top of worries.

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[jackb]

Drove rather... "spirited" through a dip in the road on the way home and may have cracked my radiator. Hard to tell exactly where it's leaking from, but it appears to be from where the plastic joins the metal.

[Victor]

Pressure wash the engine and transmission from the bottom. Start the engine at idle afterward to let everything dry. Replaced retracting plate and parking brake pads (was a tricky job to removed the pad on the side of the ajustement lever because of the spring and barrel in the way). Changed the steering bushing earlier this week (went ok, but It is a job I don't like to do. It is my second bushing change of two different D).
Repainted all four wheel and clear coat them (with harderner, a little matting agent, and a little silver brillant powder in my clear). The end result is just a little more glossy than the job I also did on a previous D. But the result is great. It is between a powdercoated finish and a glossy finish in a sense. I'll send some pictures soon. I had a garage installed my tires back on. I watch carefully that the teck guy (boy) did not nicked them. He did not recognized from which car theses wheel belong to.

[jawn101]

Drove rather... "spirited" through a dip in the road on the way home and may have cracked my radiator. Hard to tell exactly where it's leaking from, but it appears to be from where the plastic joins the metal.

If it's an original radiator, this is almost 100% certain to be the case.

[Tillsy]

Cleaned tank (inside and out), replaced the padding, installed new integrated pump/sender unit, and refitted back into my D. Getting the tank back in with new padding proved to be a tight squeeze

That said, this was the easy job - replacing the fuel filter turned into a few hours more work than I was expecting (naturally it'd take no time if I did it again!).

[jawn101]

Cleaned tank (inside and out), replaced the padding, installed new integrated pump/sender unit, and refitted back into my D. Getting the tank back in with new padding proved to be a tight squeeze

That said, this was the easy job - replacing the fuel filter turned into a few hours more work than I was expecting (naturally it'd take no time if I did it again!).

Ha, that damn fuel filter It's in an awful place.

Tank looks good! Seems like everyone's putting those new pump/sender combos in.

[jawn101]

Cleaned the inside (as best I could) and surface of the roof box. Re-applied RTV around the access panel, door wire mounts and trailing edge. Scrubbed down the interior roof to prep for the new headliners to go in. Taped all the wires back up. Cleaned and reassembled the interior, all that's missing now is the headliners and seats.

[Tillsy]

Put 10L of gas in her belly and pressurised the fuel system for 15 minutes (yes overkill but I'm anal and was busy checking everything a thousand times for leaks).

Temporarily reconnected the coolant system and filled.

Cranked her over and #6679 instantly roared to life!

During the 20ish minutes I ran and checked her for my 2.5 year old daughter tested everything electrical - lights, stereo, windows, etc. Seemed to pass her tests too

Start putting the brakes back together next meanwhile ripping the crappy 30 year old rubber coolant hoses, radiator, and fans out and replacing with upgrades.

[Delorean02378]

With the help of another local owner (tgraham), the radiator and hoses on 15500 were changed out last Saturday just in time for the record heat we've been having. Friday 6/29/12 was the hottest day on record in Nashville ever at 109 degrees.

On the way home from NOROADS garage, my car hit 7000 miles. Exciting Stuff!




Kirk