RE: [DMCForum] A DELOREAN QUESTION

["timnagin" <timnagin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You guys are just perverts! :)  I resemble that allegation. :P

Greg

PS - Mike, I did have the same experience dealing with my nuts.



-----Original Message-----
From: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Jon Heese
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 9:46 PM
To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [DMCForum] A DELOREAN QUESTION

I'm with Jack on this one.

That first paragraph was just downright painful...

Regards,
Jon Heese

timnagin wrote:
> I think my nuts are steel.  I had to twist all of my nuts off until they
> popped.  Some of them I had to cut.
> 
> That sounds just like my car.  One unique thing I found on mine was the
> stainless mounts on the back of each poontoon looked to have been worked
by
> a hammer to shape around where the top and bottom half of the underbody
> meet.  
> 
> I assumed all of this was because mine is an early car or it was altered
at
> some point.  What you mentioned seems to show mine was original.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of mike clemens
> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 9:02 PM
> To: dmcforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [DMCForum] A DELOREAN QUESTION
> 
> Hi there group,
> 
> I'm in the midst of a rebuild of Josh Porter's car,
> Beastie Boy, and I have a simple question.  Has anyone
> ever gone into the rear pontoons to remove the bolts
> that hold the stainless steel bracket to the closing
> panel, the fender, and the black mud guard (for the
> lack of a better word).  Josh's car came from NY and
> the bracket was stainless, the bolts were stainless,
> the washers were stainless, but the nuts were plain
> old steel.  They were actually so corroded that I had
> to cut them off.  You haven't had any fun unless you
> got a Dremel tool inside the pontoon and tried to cut
> off a bolt!!! :-O  Yea, I know, all the ML types out
> there have skinney little arms, but, gee whiz,
> shouldn't the nuts on the bolts have been stainless
> too??
> 
> Am I mistaken, or did the PO do a modification that
> just plain sucks??  Any thoughts would be greatly
> appreciated.
> 
> Mike   TPS   1630



 
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