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There are 7 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. re: non-mechanic question
From: "H. Julian Wainthrop, IV" <smeghead79@xxxxxxxx>
2. Re: fuel baffle, inserting
From: DMCVegas@xxxxxxxx
3. Lower ball joint
From: paulheymeson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
4. door dings caused by window regulator
From: "Walter" <Whalt@xxxxxxx>
5. parking brake problems
From: Soma576@xxxxxxx
6. Re: Still need DMCTech?
From: "Walter" <Whalt@xxxxxxx>
7. I need more updates for the DeLorean Owners Directory..
From: "Montgomery, Ken" <kenm@xxxxxxxx>
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 12:52:56 -0700
From: "H. Julian Wainthrop, IV" <smeghead79@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: re: non-mechanic question
Doug,
As a non-mechanic who has been reading this list for a while, and also
studying the manuals intensely in preparation for owning my own D (which
has been postponed due to the rear-ending of my current vehicle by some
Toyota monstrosity driven by a five-foot-nothing blonde with a cell
phone and a rich daddy), I can say that the DeLorean certainly looks
like a very easy, straightforward car to work on. The only thing you may
come across is not having the proper tools for something (air-tools come
to mind), in which case you can borrow from somebody (and let them watch
you work on your "living legend"), or you can take it to a foreign car
specialist. DeLoreans are great cars. There's a reason they're still on
the road twenty years after they were built. And I don't mean like the
"rebuilt" machines out there, either. Plus, hey, it's a DeLorean! How
cool can you get? ;)
So my advice to you is: Buy it! You will never regret it. :)
Farrar Hudkins
New Orleans, Louisiana
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 19:36:45 -0000
From: DMCVegas@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: fuel baffle, inserting
It is possible to slip the fuel baffle in while assembled.
http://www.dmcnews.com/Techsection/fuelhose.htm
Step 17 will tell you everything you need to know.
-Robert
vin 6585
--- In dmcnews@xxxx, deloreanernst@xxxx wrote:
> In a message dated 4/23/01 1:31:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
Whalt@xxxx
> writes:
>
> << In order to fit it through the fuel pump hole, I had to pass the
pieces
> through separately; although, I have heard of some magicians fitting
them
> through the hole pre-assembled.
<SNIP>
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 19:45:30 -0000
From: paulheymeson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Lower ball joint
Hi list,
Just wondered how hard a job it is to replace the lower ball joint on
the d drivers side?
Anyone done one?
Cheers Paul Heymeson vin741UK.
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 16:41:06 -0400
From: "Walter" <Whalt@xxxxxxx>
Subject: door dings caused by window regulator
I have noticed the same dents in every DeLorean car door that I have
looked
for them including both the passenger and driver's doors. These dents on
every car are located approximately in the center of the door just below
the
molding. On some cars it is much more noticeable than others, but I have
noticed them on perhaps more than a half dozen cars so far. The dents
protrude outwards and appear to be coming from the tubes of the window
regulators hitting the inside of the door as they over-torque at the end
of
their travel.
My car is no exception. I have rather noticeable dents on both doors. I
am
suspicious that it is the OEM window regulator that is at fault and not
the
heavy duty replacements sold by the vendors. My driver's door still has
the
OEM window regulator, and the passenger door regulator was already
replaced
before I got the car. Since I have owned the car for over a year now, the
dents in the drivers door has gotten worse! Yet the passenger door does
not
appear any worse.
The driver's side window gets more use (since I actually do use it for a
toll booth window and to have security gates scan a bar code which I
refuse
to stick on my car. I don't recommend throwing change through that little
window, though. The last time I tried it, both quarters missed the
basket.
I had to get out to fetch them. The funny thing though, I was so close to
the basket that my door wouldn't clear it. I couldn't pull much forward
since the gate was closed, and I had trouble backing up since the guy
behind
me was already up my a... But I did make out like a bandit once I got out
and started picking up quarters that everyone else lost.) Okay I get side
tracked too easily....
So I suggest to everyone who wants to keep their pristine doors dent free
to
not use the OEM window regulators anymore. Or if you do, be very careful
to
not run the windows all the way up or all the way down without taking your
finger off the button immediately. I hear that the OEM regulators do not
stop automatically, and this is partially the cause of why they tend to
prematurely self-destruct.
Before anyone accepts this as the gospel truth, lets have some input from
the other DML'ers.
I have yet to take my driver's door apart, but by peeping in through the
front door light it looks like I have an OEM window regulator in there.
DMC
Joe showed me how to pull the light out and look inside, and he said that
it
looks like an original. My passenger door definitely already has the
heavy
duty regulator, but it went bad shortly after I bought the car. It filled
up with water because no one removed the drain plug when they installed
it.
(Read more about this in the archives.)
Walt Tampa, FL
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 16:56:57 EDT
From: Soma576@xxxxxxx
Subject: parking brake problems
Hey guys,
ever since i took ownership of my DeLorean, the parking brake has never
worked. the previous owner said that it was always catching on one of the
wheels and since he only drove his a few times (it was not a daily driver)
he
just disconnected the lines at the handle.
well i want a parking brake! it's really crappy driving a manual
transmission without a parking brake. so today i decided to have a look.
i
connected the cables again at the release handle (which was a 2 hour job
by
itself), and i removed both rear wheels. yes, the cable is not
disengaging
on the passenger side. what is actually happening is that it is catching
and
hanging up somewhere back there. i lifted the handle again and the
passenger
side cable fell out of the mechanism. dang it!!!! but that just goes to
show
that the passenger side cable or caliper is hanging up. the driver's side
seems to work just fine.
if you push the parking brake caliper apart, as in, push the inside half
towards the car, you can feel it grinding. i lubed up the hinge really
good
and moved it around a bit, but i think the grinding is coming from the
cable
itself or one of the pieces it passes through.
finally, should the rear wheels be very hard to turn? i don't have the
tires
on, but there is noticeable resistance when i turn the discs. should they
be
totally free moving, or should it be somewhat tough to turn? the car is
in
neutral.
thanks to all the brake gurus out there
andy
Soma576@xxxxxxx
1982 DeLorean DMC-12 VIN#11596
Fargo, ND 58102
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 17:05:17 -0400
From: "Walter" <Whalt@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Still need DMCTech?
Wayne,
I'm behind you 100% in supporting the DMCTech site. I'm just too busy
with
other things to do a decent job at anything. You are welcome to copy or
whatever anything I post to the DML to use in the DMCTech site. You are
also welcome to clean up and modify/correct as needed.
I would like to see a web site organized like a tech manual. I suppose
that
is what you are in the process of setting up. I haven't looked at the
DMCTech site yet.... sorry. Right now I'm not even staying caught up with
the DML.
My suggestion is to collect a couple of articles from the smarter guys and
then have a good technical guy go through and compile it all into one
complete article. Do this for every part or system in the car, and you
will
have a complete new tech manual!
Walt Tampa, FL
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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 20:37:42 -0700
From: "Montgomery, Ken" <kenm@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: I need more updates for the DeLorean Owners Directory..
It's time to come out with an update to the DeLorean Owners Directory. If
you've NOT put you and your car into the Directory, now is the time. I
want
to have a new edition available well in advance of the Belfast Expo.
So I'm setting a deadline of Saturday, May 5, 2001 as the cutoff
for new updated entries for the next issue. Any entries beyond that will
be
saved for the next edition in the fall. To add your car to the Directory,
go
to:
http://www.dmcnews.com/directory.html
And while I've got your attention, I want to remind you of the Fall West
Coast DeLorean Show on September 20-23. Plans are coming along well and
it'll be a great time for everyone. See my club website for details
(http://www.ncdmc.org/) . We should have registrations available somewhere
around the time of the Belfast Expo.
Ken
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http://www.jps.net/arkham/delorean/delorean01.htm
mailto:kenm@xxxxxxxx
President, Northern California DeLorean Motor Club
http://www.ncdmc.org
Keeper of the International DeLorean Owners Directory
http://www.dmcnews.com mailto:directory@xxxxxxxxxxx
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