[DMCForum] Re: Chain Saw Lives (Mark V)

["content22207" <brobertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oh no, I could never do that -- I'd feel so guilty if I accidentally
used up the last of the K Jetronic and there was none left for you
fine people.

Seriously, if you haven't figured out yet that I'll give up my carb
when you pry it from my cold dead fingers, you haven't been paying
attention.

I promised Marc I'd stop waving carburetion as the panacea for
whatever ails a DeLorean, but I can definitively say it doesn't do a
thing for broken angle drives. Took another stab at repairing mine
about a week ago. Repair lasted less than 24 hours. I've now lost the
outer windings of the spindle cable all the way into the housing.
Perhaps now I'll finally pry out the sealing disc and replace the
drive cable with one wound in the right direction. When Mike Cohee and
I replaced Jack's over the 4th, noted that Houston's new one is wound
in the other direction, and Jack's failed factory cable was wound just
like mine. I'm now firmly convinced they were intended for RHD on the
right wheel.

Bill Robertson
#5939

>--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, DMCVIN6683 <dmcvin6683@xxxx> wrote:
> Hmmm....... I store my car from the day after Trick-Or-Treat till April 
> or May and she fires right up too with out a Carburetor and that K 
> Jetronic works fine every time for me.
> 
> Step up to the 90's man and abandon the Carburetor.
> 
> Mark V
> 
> 
> 
> On Jul 28, 2005, at 9:33 PM, content22207 wrote:
> 
> > Actually the more I used it the more civil it became. By the end of
> > the day it was pretty much back to its original self, minus the chain
> > oiler of course (slings copious amounts of oil -- almost 2 quarts per
> > tank of fuel). I guess that's one advantage of carburetion over fuel
> > injection -- a carb can unglue itself, whereas fuel injectors have to
> > be ultrasonically cleaned & flow tested.
> >
> > In the future I am going to fire the thing up several times annually
> > just so I don't have to go through this resurrection process again
> > (unemployed people are surely the only ones with three days to spend
> > resurrecting a $100 chain saw).
> >
> > My DeLo is the same story. Have been living out of the trucks for the
> > past 2 weeks. Haven't even started the car in the interim. But I know
> > that it will eventually fire on the first key turn and run flawlessly
> > thereafter. That's why I carbureted it -- don't have the time or
> > patience to screw around with K Jetronic.
> >
> > Bill Robertson
> > #5939
> >
> >> --- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Jon Heese <dmcforum@xxxx> wrote:
> >> Or, from another angle, it only cost you $11 to cut off your face. =)
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Jon Heese
> >>
> >> content22207 wrote:
> >>> On the bright side, it only cost me $11 to resurrect the thing.
> >>>
> >>> Bill Robertson
> >>> #5939
> >
> >
> >
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> >
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