RE: [DMCForum] Polished valve covers and new belts

["Travis Goodwin" <tgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Walter Coe [mailto:Whalt@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 8:49 PM
> To: DMCForum
> Subject: Re: [DMCForum] Polished valve covers and new belts
> 
> Ron Wester has done this with his screaming yellow DeLorean.  I think I
> remember him saying that he uses a motorcycle aluminum polish to keep it
> shiny.  I think it would be a lot of work to keep the polished parts
> looking
> polished unless you painted them or had them anodized.  Anodized in some
> weird color could look cool, or you could do clear anodizing.  Turd in a
> punch bowl?  Try a Snickers bar. ;-)  I like the idea (of polished valve
> covers ...and yeah, okay, turds too.)

Turd = bad
Snickers = good

> I use a really big screwdriver to "pry" the alternator over to tighten
the
> belt.  The tip of the screwdriver goes somewhere on the alternator
> bracket,
> and the side of the screwdriver pries against the body of the
alternator.
> Our blessed alternator man John Hervey mentioned before a story about
how
> someone damaged the case of an alternator doing this.  It doesn't take
> much
> to over-tighten an alternator belt.  Some crazy rule of thumb says that
a
> properly tightened belt should have about one inch of flex for every
foot
> in
> length.  I'm sure someone will correct me on this.

That's the rule of thumb that I go by.

> > the belts and valve cover removals will be turned into
> new howto's
> 
> Cool.  Sorry for being so slow about getting together with you on how-to
> projects like this.  I'm staying really busy.
> 
> Walt
> 



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