Re: [doc] HELP!!

[Martin Gutkowski <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You haven't recently fitted a new coolant bottle cap by any chance? I've 
seen two hoses blow within a week after we fitted a new cap to one car, 
realising the system wasn't pressurising. Once it started getting up to 
full pressure for the first time in yonks it started peeing. Since then 
we've also done the radiator and water pump. Your car is definitely in 
the camp of "sat for years then suddenly being used regularly" - these 
cars inevitably experience the most problems with apparent premature 
failure on a number of parts. Some parts get killed by lack of use, 
others by regular use, most of them by a combination of both! Lack of 
use followed by regular use is a sure recipe for problems - but most 
people are happy to just fix things as they go wrong. The DeLorean isn't 
unreliable, it's just 24 years old!

Martin



Alistair McCann wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I had benn worried that my water pump was about to bite the dust as I 
> had a slight leak under the car......
>
> Now when I checked the car today there was the usual splash under the 
> pump but now there is a puddle under the car about midway along where 
> the two pipes that run the length of the car are and a small splash 
> under the right hand side of the radiator.
>
> WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON???? How have all the seals on my car gone at 
> once?  Is it my permabag drying out the seals? Is my car just that old 
> that the seals just had to go sometime and decided to go together?
>
> Please any help is great!!!
>
> Alistair McCann
> DOC 25
> VIN# PILOT25




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