[DML] "SOLVED" - She starts (painfully), she runs (mostly), she doesn't go anywhere...

[JP Hindin <jplist2008@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I had an epiphany on Friday night, after some dinking around, and charged
the battery over Saturday. Sunday afternoon it fired right up and I was
able to take the car out for a 45 minute drive.

The battery light was on for the whole drive. When I got home again I
pulled out the voltmeter and checked voltage between the battery post on
the passenger-side of the engine bay to one of the intake runners and got
a consistent 12.5V.

So I crawled under the thing and measured the alternator, between the
surprisingly rusty terminal (which I had to scrape to even get a read off
it) and the engine block - 14.0V.

So it seems like the alternator is working, but the voltage isn't making
it out to anywhere. While the crimping looked ok on the two ring
connectors on the alternator post, it was pretty rusty, so I'm going to
clean it up with some sandpaper and get some dielectric grease on it
(seems to me like from its position under the car it really should have a
boot over it, but apparently not) and see if that helps.

Anywhere else I should be looking?

Thanks again for everyone that suggested places to look.

OH! Before I forget, there are two bolts on the top of the fuel
distributor, I think they -may- be mounting bolts. The one under the
intake banjo is apparently completely undone on my car as it just rattles
about (but the banjo holds it in). Is this just a mounting bolt?

Cheers!

 - JP

On Fri, 14 Jun 2013, JP Hindin wrote:

>
> My DeLorean has a hot-start issue that I've not bothered dealing with yet,
> so it usually only gets out for 30 minute runs out-and-back. Last time it
> was on the road was probably December. Over the Iowa winter I'd fire it up
> once a month, generally, a let it idle for ten minutes to get the moisture
> out of the oil. I've been waiting for nice days in the summer, but it's
> rained a LOT out here, so I haven't started it up in maybe three or four
> months.
>
> Usually it's a bit of a pain to start. Lots of fire and die and then
> eventually it'll settle into a clean idle and run like a champ.
>
> Yesterday I got in to take it out because it was finally a nice day and it
> was a real bear to even get it to idle, and after at least five minutes of
> crank-fire-and-die, it settled into an unusually lumpy idle, but ANY
> throttle input would cause the engine revs to drop to the point of it
> dying. As such, I was unable to actually go anywhere because the best it
> could manage was an idle.
>
> Is this a common issue with the KJet that I've yet to come across in my
> nine months of DeLorean ownership, or should I be concerned?
>
> Thanks all;
>
>  - JP
> 50441
>
>
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