[DML] Re: won't start
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Just being able to replace parts is not going to get you runing. You
really have to be able to diagnose a problem and change just the bad
part. Now that you are where you are I would try turning the mixture
screw. It is probably way off. We saw this on a car in Virginia. He
repalced the mixture unit and it took a turn or 2 to get the
adjustment close. It seems the mixture units do not come preadjusted
for Deloreans. You have to remove the tamper-proof plug (if it is
there) and use a metric allen wrench. Don't forget to plug the hole or
you will have a large vacuum leak. The procedure is in the Workshop
Manual D:04:01.
David Teitelbaum
vin 10757



--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, advantics@xxxx wrote:
> The car ran when I got it, then one day it just didn't start. I was
getting 
> plenty of spark but no fuel when I pulled an injector. When I pulled
the fuel 
> line going to the fuel distributor, I had fuel going to it but the
fuel getting 
> in the engine was next to nothing. It would sputter and try to start
but it 
> would just tease me. I had thought the fuel distributor and
injectors were 
> clogged, and so I bought new injectors and took the fuel distributor
and cold 
> start valve off my other D. Still the same problem, only difference
is it will try 
> to start and sometimes run for 10 or 20 seconds but dies out as soon
as I 
> take my foot off the gas. The few seconds that it does run it smokes
a lot.
>   I know I got the lines all back correctly and it helps that I have
another 
> D to look at, and even swap parts with to see if something bad. It
runs great, 
> and I have since tried some of the "bad" parts on it, only to find
that they 
> work fine. I don't know these cars at all, but am trying to learn. I 




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