Re: [DML] Great Delorean Day

["David Swingle" <dswingle@xxxx>]

Uhh - a minor faux paus, Bill - not DMC1 - DeLorean Motor Company 
Houston.

Some other notes:

In the process of lifting the body from Rich Weissensel's project car 
(in 5 hours Rich and a gang did a rolling frame swap on a car with 
the rustiest frame I've ever seen!) we learned a couple of very 
important lessons:

---If you are not trying to salvage the old frame, a Sawzall(tm) is a 
very helpful tool;

---When working with multiple people, be very clear on the definition 
of "loosen" with respect to body bolts, there's nothing quite like 
seeing/hearing the frame (with the engine still in it!) unexpectedly fall partially out of a DeLorean on a lift;

---When doing a body-off, an in-ground lift has the support posts too 
close together to pull the chassis out. We discovered this with the 
chassis on the ground and the body 6 feet in the air. Can you say "Oh 
s#$%"? Took a lot of sideways dragging but the group was able to get 
it out without further use of the Sawzall. You really want to use a 
twin-post lift for this.

Unfortunately I was too busy to take pictures so they will have to 
come from somewhere else. Luckily Tamir and Bryan were there with 
digital cameras in hand! 

Dave Swingle


--- In dmcnews@xxxx, billschaferabn@xxxx wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What a great time we had in Napierville, IL today. Hats off to 
DMC 1 on 
> the fine job they have done on the new high-output PRV engine.