[DML] An actual Delorean Topic

[kKoncelik@xxxxxxx]

I am working on another restoration for a friend of mine and at the same time 
working on possibly the next raffle car.

Both cars althought totally different backgrounds, storage, etc are exactly 
the same in problems.

Most are basic, bad fuels sys etc but the thing that gets me is the damage to 
the crumple zones.  I am wondering if this is something that is not being 
looked at well enough 

Out of the 11 cars I bought three needed new crumple zones and two needed 
repair.

On that same note I notice the shocks usually have not leaked and still work.

The brakes on a car that has sat are about 50 -50 with one car not running 
for 15 years the brakes worked fine another one had not run for only three years 
and they were shot.

My point here is that DeLoreans that sit do deteriorate and it appears that 
they do at a faster rate than one that is being driven,   I would have thought 
that ones that are driven at least for the crumple zone would have been worse 
but that does not appear to be the case in the cars I have bought.

To my surprise in all this I only replaced one fuel accumulator but had to 
replace all the warm up regulators.

It also appears that the Clutch slave cylinders go much more frequently than 
the master brake cylinder although I usually like to replace both.

The history we are getting on the raffle car that went to Shannon will help 
give feedback on how well and long some of these parts will last and what parts 
we should have replaced and did not.  If it worked we left it.

Last issue 

I am noticing that the exhaust manifold gaskets go more to age than mileage.
I have one car with 100k and the gasket just blew.  My concourse car with 7K 
on it just went and coincidentally the 170 mile car that I shipped worked here 
just fine but blew soon after arriving.

I have a feeling we will all be doing exhaust manifold gaskets in the near 
future (unless they are already done)

PS I like the Volvo Gaskets better than the D gaskets they seem to compress 
better and seal better.
Just my opinion

Ken


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