The fuel smell could be from something leaking at the fuel tank when you fill it up all the way. Try to take notice if it happens when full or if it smells at any time. Very unlikely the distributer has anything to do with overheating unless the timming is WAY off and it would noticably affect performance. On a 20 + year old car you need to keep a continuing fund for maintainence and repair. Your mechanic who is "cutting you a break" may charge less per hour but if he isn't familiar with working on the car will just take longer then he should so is that a deal? You might be better off in the long run to get the car to someone who can fix it once and for all. It is really rare that you need to "rebuild" the distributer. It might help if you can get your mechanic to talk to one of the Delorean venders for advice on how to get the car into shape. In 15 min on the phone it could save hours of labor and $'s in parts. David Teitelbaum vin 10757 --- In dmcnews@xxxx, Swoyerzone@xxxx wrote: > Currently the DeLorean is in shop, the distributor is undergoing a rebuild. > The original owner had told me he smelled fuel leaking from the car. I had > the taken to a mechanic the 1st week of ownership, to have the brakes worked > on. I also asked about the gas, at this time I didn't experience it. the > mechanic couldn't find anything wrong with it. After a good month or so I > started to smell it. but the source was never found. I have switched > mechanics, the current one has found many problems. all but the cold start > and fans have been solved. I'm hoping that its just the distributor, I bought > the car with intentions that I would invest in repair, but I'm now running > very low in repair money, just about out. The good side is the mechanic has > cut me a large brake. he charges less about 15% less on labor, and he only > works on the car one day a week, for my situation, the only down side its > that it takes so long before I hear any update on the car. And its been in > the shop since May. I will pass on the information to my mechanic, > > Thanks, > > Darryl > 5898 > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]