Newbies and Workshop manual

[jtrealty@xxxx]

One of the first purcheses for a new owner if he doesn't have one with 
the car is a Workshop Manual and a Parts Manual. They aren't expensive 
and they can give you a starting point for many of the things you will 
need to do on the car. They can be obtained from all of the Delorean 
vendors. Even if you don't understand all of it or don't even do your 
own work they will be a valuable source of info for whoever is working 
on the car. No one except the mechanics that only work on Deloreans 
can give you torque values from memory or specs on the fuel system or 
part numbers. Too many people think they can work on cars without 
refering to the manuals and that is just one of the many reasons 
things don't get fixed right. Manufactures go to great expense to 
print these things and they wouldn't do it if they didn't have to. We 
as the Delorean community are lucky to have as good a manual as we do 
for a 2 year production "Orphan". Mnay of the questions on the DML can 
be answered by refering to the manual and I try to refer to it in my 
responses. It helps to standardize the language, techniques, methods 
and procedures. When you order parts it is especially useful as there 
can be no confusing what part you need if you have the part number! If 
after refering to the Manual you still have questions then at least 
you are using the correct terminology.
David Teitelbaum
vin 10757