Well said Rick. Good food for thought and great story, thanks for sharing it. Royce. --- Rick Heile <rick.heile@xxxxxx> wrote: > A few weeks ago I posted asking how to be sure I > fully filled the > coolant in the car. I have a 150 mile round trip to > work and it seems > that when I get back home I was down a quart. Maybe > there was an air > bubble in the system somewhere and I wanted to get > it out. > > Well that was not the problem. Before I bought this > Delorean it sat > for untold years in a barn. I knew this was the case > when I purchased > it and did all of the normal things that have been > discussed here > before I even started it. I flushed the coolant > system twice before > event road testing it. > > The first year on the road saw some issues other > than the cooling > system. To all of you this would be normal kinks > getting worked out. > It was this year when I noticed the drop in coolant > after I flushed > it before driving it this season. > > On one of the 98+ degree days here in MA the state > police decided to > create a road block to check each cars license and > registration. I > sat still for over an hour. By the time I got moving > again I noticed > that my temp gauge was starting to climb even though > the fans were on. > > Now I started to see a bit of steam coming out of > the back. After > saying a few choice words I pulled over and let it > cool. At the next > exit was a gas station so I started it back up and > drove it in. > > I pulled around to the service entrance and a whole > bunch of people > came out to see because when I stopped and shut the > car off I was in > a full cloud of steam. They were all saying that I > had just come back > from the future. > > I was not in too good a mood but dealt with the on > lookers. After > letting it cool for two hours I filled the coolant > back up and took > it directly to my mechanic. He determined that the > radiator was not > working correctly. > > When I bought the car I did check to see if it had > the original > radiator. It did not, it had a brass radiator. Well > after pulling the > radiator we tore it apart. It was more than 60% > clogged with a gummy > goo. My mechanic said that when coolant sits for a > long time it > breaks down into a gummy residue and since the > capillaries of the > radiator are so tiny they all get trapped in there. > Once stuck, > flushing will not help. > > The reason I was down a quart after every trip was > that a bit of the > coolant was boiling off each day. > > This is just some information to the group, that if > you find a low > mileage Delorean do not think that that is a gem. > These cars need to > be driven to stay healthy. > > Rick > 3290 > > > Royce Holden ----- ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get your own web address. Have a HUGE year through Yahoo! Small Business. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains/?p=BESTDEAL 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/