[DML] Re: HELP! - STUCK IN THE EXHAUST

["Dave Swingle" <swingle@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

You only have to remove the muffler to pull the engine/trans. Leave 
the Cat and crossover in place. 

After doing all this exhaust-type work on an engine out of the car, 
I'd never do it any other way. An engine pull in this car is about a 
2-3 hour job. Once it's out and on a stand, all the exhaust stuff is 
right out in the open where you can torch/saw/drill/heli-coil to your 
heart's content. And now you can easily replace the other stuff thats 
hard such as pan gaskets, main seals, etc. And do a lot of 
housecleaning. 

--Remove facia/hood/louvre
--Remove Muffler, 
--Remove alternator (optional)
--Remove Axles and linkage
--Drain/unhook cooling lines
--Unplug all the electrical connections and a couple of vacuum and 
fuel lines
--Disconnect throttle cable and the tiny hose to the heater valve
--If its an automatic disconnect the dipstick-to-head retainer or 
you'll bend it all up. 
--Loosen all 4 mount bolts and pull away. 

You can heat the O2 sensor all you like - it's ceramic and won't melt 
other than the wire cover which comes with the new one anyway. Ive 
seen them so bad you have to drill it out and re-tap the hole.

Of course this probably isn't what you had in mind when you went to 
replace that $4 gasket. Which was probably not the problem anyway, 
I'll bet your manifold-to-head gaskets are the issue. They are even 
worse to do "in the car". 

Dave S

--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, mike p <cambpd@xxxx> wrote:
> 
> Please, can anyone help with advice??!  I am trying to
> replace a @#%@%#$ exhaust gasket on the right side of
> our Delorean.  I have the nuts off on the manifold/
> exhaust connectors but of course I can't move the
> crossover exhaust pipe out far enough to slip the new
> gasket over the stud (oh yes, took it to Midas before
> and all they ended up doing was breaking off one of
> the connector studs).  
> 
> Then I tried "loosing" up the exhaust connections on
> the left side of the engine and that is really where
> the fun has begun?? #^%$%#%.  There's a sensor device
> bolted to the crossover pipe just below the top nut
> (of four) connecting the catalytic converter. Of
> course the nut holding the sensor is stuck with 24
> years of rust so heat would seem to be the answer! 
> But NO, HOW THE HELL CAN YOU HEAT THE NUT HOLDING THE
> SENSOR WHEN TO GET THE NUT CHERRY RED HOT WOULD ONLY
> MELT THE @$#$%^$ SENSOR ITSELF.  How the @&^$$# can
> anyone possibly remove this exhaust system on this car
> short of using a HACKSAW??!!!  THERE IS NO ^$#@@#$
> ROOM.  Then they say you have to remove the engine,
> but don't you first have to remove the %$#@# exhaust
> system to do that.
> 









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