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 4 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1. Re: My Delorean Stopped Dead in the Water From: "Dave Swingle" <dswingle@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 2. Re: When and where in Cleveland? From: "Dave Sontos" <dsontos@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 3. Re: Carpet Color From: John Yeoman <theshovel1224@xxxxxxxxx> 4. Camshaft From: "Chris C" <petleech@xxxxxxx> ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 1 Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 22:57:35 -0000 From: "Dave Swingle" <dswingle@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: My Delorean Stopped Dead in the Water I purchased a replacement fitting for this wiring(connector, wires, 2 lugs) for about $9 from one of the DMC suppliers a few years ago. Kind of expensive for a plug and a couple of lugs, but it was OEM. Any other quality connector should be functionally equivalent. Saw a car last week where it was wire nuts and extension-cord wire, that was probably a LITTLE too crude, but it did work. > > It should not surprise anyone to learn that our fuel pump connectors are > > wearing out. My car did the same thing earlier this year. I thought it > > was the inertia switch, but it turned out to be the electrical > > connections to the fuel pump. They do not last forever. My advice is to > > cut the wires, go to a hardware store, and buy some sort of strong > > connector to replace it. > > > > Everyone should probably replace this connection in the next few years. > > > > - Mike Substelny > > VIN 01280, 7 years ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 18:58:20 -0400 From: "Dave Sontos" <dsontos@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: When and where in Cleveland? visit this web site......http://deloreancarshow.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian McCool <bjmccool@xxxxxxxx> To: <dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 10:02 PM Subject: [DML] When and where in Cleveland? > I know that there has probably already been a posting of the exact date and > time > of the Cleveland show, but I was hoping that some could refresh my memory as > to > the time and exact location of the show in Cleveland again. Thanks > > > > > > 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 > ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 18:25:55 -0700 (PDT) From: John Yeoman <theshovel1224@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Carpet Color Do any 1983 DeLoreans have completely black interiors? John #16822 w/ dual color interior __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 4 Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 01:32:53 -0000 From: "Chris C" <petleech@xxxxxxx> Subject: Camshaft We are trying to isolate a rough-running problem in our car. We suspect the injection system but have tried everything in our ability with no success. We normally do all the work ourselves but a bad back problem has forced me to give my car to a local shop. The local shop has told us that these engines are very prone to camshaft failure because of a poor lubrication design. Our car has 82k on it. At what mileage do the camshafts start to wear badly and what are the symptoms? We did a compression test before buying the car and all readings were between 155 and 165psi. If the camshafts are bad are they difficult to replace and is there a solution to the lubrication problem? If this is a very costly procedure is it better to simply buy a good used VOLVO B28 engine? Is the engine from th volvo car identical to the DMC engine and does it mate directly to the DMC gearbox? ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________
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