Before posting messages or replies, see the posting policy rules at: www.dmcnews.com/Admin/rules.html To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderator@xxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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> ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ 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 ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ 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> ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ 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. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ 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 ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ 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 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ 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 ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ 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 ======================================================= Ken Montgomery Sacramento, CA VIN #10911 'OUTTIME' 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 ======================================================= ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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