[DML] Midwest Club Tech Day (week) report

["Dave Swingle" <swingle@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yesterday was the DeLorean Midwest tech session in the Chicago area 
featuring Don Steger. In spite of what some may think, we really do 
know how serve up a busy and fun couple of days here.  

For a couple of days prior to the official session, about 8 of us were 
at my home and did some of the heavier lifing including a transmission 
rebuild/clutch job. This transmission needed a new 3/4 slider, 1/2 
synchros, and a bunch of gaskets and seals. Luckily the "hard parts" 
were available in the basement transmission boneyard. Marty also 
installed a complete DMCH suspension setup in a car, and we did a 
couple of other minor repairs. 

Thanks to my wife Julee for making sure we all ate well - without her 
we'd probably have worked 20 hours a day and passed out from lack of 
food (balanced only by a few beers).

On Saturday, with a record turnout of 20 cars (I didn't count people 
but I'd guess 25), and weather that was much better than expected, we 
had a great time and got almost everything fixed. A big thanks to Rich 
Wiessensel - "chief arranger of stuff", and Riverside Brookfield high 
school for allowing us to use the facility.

The "Big Project of the Day" was a set of trailing arm bolts on an 
automatic D  - with some guidance from Don Steger, Jim Reeve and a 
couple of others showed how it's done. Marty Maier swapped a set of SS 
brake lines, and Don did a couple of sets of upper door seals and 
window regulators as well as some other window adjustments.  

Ken Koncelic showed up Saturday with the Pheasant Run raffle car, 
and "trained" several members (and a future owner or two) in some of 
the arts of DeLorean maintenance. The car is now on it's way back to 
Ohio for some further clean-up and probably a full tank of gas. 

After the tech session, we adjourned back to my house to burn the hitch 
pin out of Ken's trailer hitch, so he could swap hitches and haul my 
trailer back to Ohio. Concours competitors watch out - this time Ken's 
car is gonna stay clean on the way to Houston! If you happen to see a 
tiny Ford pickup in front of a 24" closed trailer, don't get in his way!

Off to clean the garage now. . . . 

Dave Swingle






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