Hello all, This weekend was my season starting engine cleaning. Though the car has been out this year already, it seems the running condition was getting worse for some reason. Interesting sidenote to this is that as the condition got worse, the sound in the radio got worse as well, along with a worse idle. Therefore, I took this as an opportunity to connect the O-scope up to the car. I used the direct and ignition power of the radio as a reference point. And things didnt look to good. Because the car was sputtering when under load (uphill) I figured maybe the ignition is the culprit. As it would turn out, three issues were repaired, the car is in perfect working condition. 1) 90 degree coupler on ignition coil was melted inside. ( broke into dust upon removal) reason was severe oxidation on the connector (i mean severe) 2) both 2.2mf caps checked out good on the tester however the one at the coil had a bad connection to ground and the one at the idle switch was completely oxidized at the terminal. once completed, I made videos of noise testing in the electrical system and posted them on youtube. needless to say the signals look great, the radio has no noise and the car runs fine!!! As an added bonus I made a video of my dramatically improved idle which used to seek about 300 rpm from the norm. pictures http://www.mydelorean.net/pics/brokeconn.jpg http://www.mydelorean.net/pics/brokeconn2.jpg http://www.mydelorean.net/pics/capreroute.jpg http://www.mydelorean.net/pics/capsolder.jpg http://www.mydelorean.net/pics/captest.jpg http://www.mydelorean.net/pics/directconn.jpg http://www.mydelorean.net/pics/motorclean.jpg http://www.mydelorean.net/pics/motorclean2.jpg idle movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sogbrgDWjlA Jordan Rubin mydelorean.net Like Myspace for your Delorean, plus HOWTOS and a parts catalogue Wie Myspace fur dein Delorean, plus HOWTOS und Ersatzteilcatalog http://www.mydelorean.net __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:dmcnews-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:dmcnews-fullfeatured@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/