RE: [DML] HELP!!!!!!!!!

["Kevin Abato" <delorean@xxxx>]

Hi everyone....just dropping in for an update on my problem.

First off.....BIG THANKS to Dave Swingle and Rob Grady! Their help was
awesome! (other people e-mailed me also, but by this time I had the info
from Rob and Dave). THANKS GUYS!

I checked the car out tonight (did not drive it today) and the coolant in
the tank was about 1 3/4" above the cold fill line. I bleed the system
after I warmed the car, and a generous amount of air bubbles came out of the
system. I took quite a bit of coolant out of the system (still plenty left
in the tank...when it was warm, it was at the cold fill line) and I am
waiting for it to cool down a bit, and I will add coolant back in.

End result: There was some air in the system, and maybe a little too much
coolant.

Question to all of you: The tank is mounted in a way that it sits on a
slight angle. This makes the fill lines not "level" are the markings made
with this in mind, or should I fill it slightly higher?

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Abato [mailto:delorean@xxxx]
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 7:57 PM
To: Dmcnewsyahoo (E-mail)
Subject: [DML] HELP!!!!!!!!!


I called rob grady on this one earlier tonight, but I was a little
overwhelmed (and cold) so I don't think I gave him the best info (sorry Rob!
I will call you again tomorrow) In the mean time...if anyone else can
help...or offer ideas...

I was driving home (1 hour commute) and the last 5 minutes, I noticed that
if I took a sharp (or somewhat sharp) right turn, I could hear a rubbing
sound (like a fan blade scraping something, or the a tire rubbing on the
body) It came from the front right side of the car (my first thought was
the tire) but I just drove again, and had the same thing, but noticed I had
the heater on with the blower set to "1". If I turned it off while turning
or set it higher, the rubbing sound went away. Is the blower fan for the
heat located in the front right side of the car? Is this what I am hearing?
When I shut it off, it slowly went away, when I cranked it to "2" or "3" it
went away and I could hear the fan with its normal sound.

More importantly.....The car also started to spew coolant when I first got
home. The temp gauge never went into the red (or over 220) from what I
know. (I panicked and turned the car off and manually rolled it out of my
garage to avoid a mess) Over all I lost about 10oz of coolant. I called
Rob Grady, and he told me that I have to bleed the system. I am not at all
mechanically inclined, so he told me to have someone help me. Now that I
drove it again, I checked the coolant expansion tank (when cold) and it was
3/4 filled. Do I need to add coolant? Do I need to still bleed it? I ran
it for 20 minutes and the temp stayed fine (not sure if the fans came on or
not).

I was panicking at first thinking a hose burst, or something worse, but I
did finally realized that the coolant came from the hole on the top where
the cap is. (again...sorry Rob! I did not know that hose was SUPPOSED to
do that. And I did not realized that was where the coolant came from)

Please respond tonight if you can...so I get a little piece of mind before
I go to bed. I have had the car blues...new DMC cost me mega bucks, then
the head gasket blew on my Intrepid! I am going SOOOO broke! :)



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