> Whenever I start fixing something that is not broken I inevitably break it or the part next to it gets jealous, wants attention and spontaneously breaks :-). Mike -- it sounds like you are well tuned into Dave Stragand's Zen of DeLoreans. Mark -- Depending on how the car was stored all these years, the water pump may be just fine or it could be about to go. I put my daily driver into service 3 years ago as a rolling restoration project. I got it with 8600 miles and it now has around 23,000 miles. The only thing I have done with the cooling system is flush it out, replace the header bottle (the old plastic one looked fine) and tighten every hose clamp that I could reach. And there were leaks at every single hose clamp! -- and still are at the waterpump & y-pipe where I can't reach them. I am long over due for a major tune up and to replace all the coolant hoses. I might replace the water pump at the same time, but I'm undecided. From what I can see, the aluminum coolant pipes are spotlessly clean inside. But when I removed the drain plugs from the engine block, one of them had a wall of dry silt behind it. It looked like part of the block. I wondered if I even removed the right plug. So I jabbed a screwdriver in there and took an unexpected bath in coolant. I don't believe that the system ever had any stop leak put in. My suggestion on how you proceed is to take into consideration the car's past behavior. A unique thing about DeLorean behavior is that if you love them then not too much will go wrong at the same time. You could have a pile of repairs planned to do to the car, but the next major part failure generally won't occur until the car feels that you are ready for it. Does this sound too ridiculous? Well I tell you that the whole of reality sounds ridiculous! What is it and what makes it work? Walt To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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