Re: New owner... relays? burned wire? Good mechanic near Philly?

["Jim Reeve" <ultra@xxxx>]

Scott, congrats on your D purchase.

As to your questions, I do know know anyone in the Philly area, so 
someone else will have to field that question.

As to your relays, the horizontal stripe indicates they have already 
been updated.

As to your burned white wire, probably nobody here knows what that 
is, because it isn't original. It appears a previous owner of your 
car tapped into the 12V on the door lock breaker with this wire for 
some purpose. Your going to have to trace it. I also easily 
noticed the scorch marks on your cooling fan breaker. I would be 
suspicious that this was the cause of your problems in the first 
place. Even if the breaker had been upgraded with the relays, a 
poor spade connection will cause a tremendous amount of heat to 
build. I suspect that is the cause of the burning on the breaker, 
the melting of the fuse box cover, and burning of the mysterious 
white wire. I recommend a new cooling fan breaker with new, clean, 
tight connections.

One more newbie tip, remove your fuse box cover. Since the 
connectors for the fuses are of very poor quality, they also build 
up a lot of heat. It isn't a bad idea to remove it and let it vent, 
many owners have done this. Of course, keep the cover in the 
compartment still so you know what fuse is what, but I would 
recommend removing it. Keep a close eye on your #7 fuse, thats the 
one that likes to melt on everybody. My car made it 60,000 miles 
before it melted, which is much longer than it usually takes. I 
always kept it clean and tight, but fate still caught up to me. Keep 
an inline fuse and some wiretaps with you at all times, just in case.

Good luck with everything.

Jim Reeve
MNDMC - Minnesota DeLorean Club
DMC-6960


--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Scott McMullan" <mcmullan@xxxx> 
wrote:
> 
> - I'd appreciate any recommendations for a good mechanic near 
Philadelphia.
>
> The relays in my D look like they could be original, 
> 
> - I found a severly burned wire (over 1" of blackened insulation, 
wire
> burned through) near the relays; hopefully one of you can save me 
a bunch of
> disassembly tracking down where this goes... Check out
> http://www.sixgeeks.org/~scott/DeLorean/fuse_area_1.jpg -- the 
white wire

> --Scott