[DML] Re: Swapping trailing arm bolts, catch 22

[tobyp@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Michiel - First of all, rest assured that your DeLorean is no 
different than any others ... they all have their own individual 
quirks.  Your car had only 300 miles when you bought it a year ago?  
The TAB's are "shining like diamonds" because the car has hardly 
been driven.  For the right hand TAB, if you have the joint loose, 
and the bolt slid out all the way until the head contacts the 
transmission, you should be able to move the bolt around by 
deflecting the rubber in the rubber bushing.  I have never had one 
that wouldn't come out with a little "pushing and shoving".  If you 
really want to remove the right hand rubber bushing plate, a small 
wrench can be inserted into the opening in the frame on the 
transmission side to loosen the jam nut.  By the way, 
congratulations on recognizing that there is a jam nut as well as 
the welded nut.  If the retaining plate bolt is turned without 
removing the jam nut, it is easy to twist the head off of the bolt.  
The right hand TAB should be fairly easy to replace, so that is why 
it is not talked about much in the files.  The left TAB is another 
story when an automatic transmission is involved.  One strategy is 
to remove the entire trailing arm from the car in order to change 
the TAB (great article in Gullwing Magazine last year about that 
task), and the other is to cut the old TAB out.  This takes a hack 
saw or metal-cutting Saws-all.  Then, you loosen the bushing 
retaining plate, and insert the new TAB with the head to 
the "outside", through the trailing arm, the loose bushing, and then 
reinstall the bushing plate back in.  All of this takes patience and 
small tools.  With everything back in, you can torque the new TAB 
using the head of the bolt instead of the nut.  If you'd like to 
work through this "Off List", please feel free to email me at toby
(at)delorean-parts.com.  I have done a few automatics now, so it can 
be done.

Toby Peterson  VIN 2248 "Winged1"
DeLorean Parts Northwest, LLC
www.delorean-parts.com 


--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Michiel Böhmer <michiel.bohmer@xxxx> 
wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I seem to have a total different DeLorean then you all have.
> 
> I have these new trailing arm bolts and they have to get in my car 
with automatic transmission. According to the manual it should be a 
piece of cake.  




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