[DML] Re: Emergency Brake (was Vortec Install)

["DMC Joe" <dmcjoe@xxxx>]

Gus,

This should make you feel a little better: The brake cable problem you
described is common; we see it all the time. To correct this problem we
replace the parking brake handle assembly.

DMC Joe / De Lorean Services / <dmcjoe@xxxx>
Web Site: <http://www.deloreanservices.com>
----- Original Message -----
From: Gus Schlachter <gus@xxxx>
To: <dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2000 12:28 AM
Subject: [DML] Re: Emergency Brake (was Vortec Install)


> Duke,
>
> Either a)you greatly underestimated your mechanical skills, b)your tools
are
> much better than mine, or c)I'm much too meticulous. Engine removal in
2.5
> hours? I spent 4 hours today just fiddling with my parking brake! You
are
> quite ambitious. I do appreciate your reasoning for the engine swap, but
my
> preference is to stay "casual stock", I term I coined to mean "updated and
> improved but original and stock-looking to everyone but a
clipboard-toting,
> white-glove-wearing, magnifying-glass-carrying concours judge." Thus my
> choice to pursue the Wynne-inspired super PRV.
>
> As for the parking brake, I was tinkering with it because it won't hold
the
> car despite new pads. I thought I could tighten the adjusting screws on
the
> calipers, but even when fully clamping down I could see between the pad
and
> rotor. The pads were only making contact over about half their surface,
> since they weren't parallel. I even tried using the parking brake to stop
> the car several times to wear them down to flat, but it didn't help.
>
> The real tinkering began when I was just about done and tried to lift the
> brake handle...POP! then no more resistance. I thought I'd broken a cable
> but I was mistaken. One of the cable ends pulled through the bracket
under
> the handle by *bending* it and slipping through, which is probably the
> result of my using so much force on the handle to keep the car parked. I
> assume this is not a typical Delorean experience for the rest of you, no?
>
>
> Gus Schlachter
> Austin, TX
> VIN# 4695
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Duke Bladorn [mailto:at88mph@xxxx]
> > Sent: Friday, January 07, 2000 10:12 AM
> > Subject: [DML] Re: Vortec install and update (was PRV tuning)
> >
> >
> > I wanted to voice my opinion for the other side of the coin.
> >
> > The engine swap isn't that difficult. I do not have any major
mechanical
> > skills, just alot of common sense and ALOT of great support from Mike
Bell
> > and Darryl Tinnerset. With their advice and advice of Vortec owners, my
> > swap has been extremely painless. The whole swap could be
> > completed in 3-4 days with the right parts...
> >
> > ...Here's my time frame. It took me 2 1/2 hours to take the rear facia,
> rear
> > louver, engine cover, and engine out. When I got the engine out I
called
> it
> > a day. This weekend I will take out the stock trans and install the new
> > trans and bellhousing. I'm guessing it shouldn't take more than 2 1/2
to
> 3
> > hours. Next week I will have to have the oil pan made and mounts as
well.
> > Then next saturday I can install the engine and take the rest of
saturday
> > and all of sunday to wire it up. To be honest, it will probably not be
> > going in next weekend because I want to build the engine and get about
> > 250-270 hp out of it so I have to send it out to a shop...
>
>
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