Re: Spares

[jtrealty@xxxx]

You missed the moral of the story. If you had taken care of your car 
and not let the hoses deteriorate to such an extent as they obviously 
had then you wouldn't have gotten in trouble. I find that MOST 
problems on the road were preventable with some normal maintainence 
and like they do on airplanes a "pre flight" or at least a once over 
with an eyeball. If you know you haven't changed a hose on the car in 
20 years then you deserve getting stuck and maybe blowing your engine! 
BTW what is the "origional vacuum hose air removal system"? The 
cooling problems are not vin related except for the early cars that 
had the otterstadt facing up. (Not really a big deal and easily 
updated). The major problem is leaks and aging rubber parts. 
Electrically speaking the fan fail relay is dangerous, the circuit 
breakers underrated and loose connections contribute to the cooling 
system problems which IMHO is the most neglected system in most cars 
untill it overheats and the the owner wonders why it happened to me!
David Teitelbaum
vin 10757



--- In dmcnews@xxxx, "Buckner, William" <William.Buckner@xxxx> wrote:
> I had the original vacuum hose air removal system on my Delorean 
> last year. The hose got old, broke off, wrapped itself in the belt for the 
> water pump, created a overheat condition, bubbled over the overflow bottle. I 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Walter [mailto:Whalt@xxxx]
> Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 9:08 PM
> To: dmcnews@xxxx
> Subject: [DML] Re: Spares
> 
> 
> Steve said,
> 
> >....you
> >don't need to carry spare belts,
> 
> [moderator snip]