Re: DeLorean problems

["Dave Swingle" <swingle@xxxx>]

Very true - we need to reinforce this once in a while. I (like most 
of us) went thru that same "fix all the neglected stuff" process for 
the first year or two of ownership, at this point my car is so 
reliable that it's almost boring (since I'm fascinated by working on 
them!).

So I've been working on other local cars, just for the fun of it. 
After completing the trans rebuild on Rich's Buick-powered car, I did 
a frame/body separation on another car last weekend so that the owner 
can do a frame-swap. We'll reverse the process when he gets the new 
(stainless) frame built up.

Dave


--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "David Teitelbaum" <jtrealty@xxxx> 
wrote:
> From reading posts on the DML the casual observer may conclude that 
a
> Delorean is nothing but a bunch of problems covered by Stainless
> Steel. The truth is somewhat better than that. Many of 
the "problems"
> can be traced to improper procedures done by less than knowledgeable
> mechanics for previous owners. When a "new" owner aquires 
his "dream"
> the first impulse is to try to make a 20 + year old car look and 
work
> like new. Depending on the car's history in many cases this requires
> undoing a lot of the previous work and doing a lot of neglected
> maintaince. I still see many cars running on ORIGIONAL cooling 
hoses!
.....