Does anyone have or know where to get an owners manual and vinyl wallet?

I used to have one before I owned a D...... I subsequently sold it.... arrrffgg lol

Obviously Houston has them..... but shipping is extortionate!

Cheers
Tris

Hi,
     Does anybody have the Bosch part number or cross ref. for the Distributor vacuum advance unit/diaphragm. DMC part 102684.
Pretty sure mine is toast.

Many thanks
Nick H

Anyone know who's showing their car?  I would have like to have attended this show.  Pity I can't.

https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/n...741939/amp

Hi all,

So I finally had some time today to look into my dim low beam issue.

All 3 wires were in the wrong place on the connector! Seems whoever installed the Hella lights swapped the high beam with ground instead of low beam with ground.

I also checked the fuse box, and the low beam fuse is completely melted. I assume it might have happened due to the wiring being incorrect?

Fuse 7 has been messed with as well but that's for another discussion.

So what would people suggest? Am I ok to just sort the wiring for both the lights, replace the fuse and test?

Or should I do something else as well?

   

Here's a quick question (yeah right).  In order to check properly, you have to remove the air filter box, so some of you may rely on memory for your own cars, but is everyone's throttle body butterfly armature, which is connected to the throttle spool via the miniature ball-jointed control link bar, tight?

What i mean by this question, is:  is it "waggle-able" from left to right quite freely, or is it held rigid in place by the staver nut which holds that whole sprung loaded assembly together?

I'm asking, because for a while now, i've been suffering a "sticky throttle".  

In fact, ever since i disassembled the VOD in 2015.

The situation is improving all the time, with a tweak here and an adjustment there, but coming down the M6 three weeks ago, the problem exhibited itself again.
Not badly, but persistent.  It seems it only becomes an issue when the car is fully warmed up and been running for a while (something expanding with heat?).

What's happening is the throttle is getting stuck around the 2k rpm mark, and i can only get it to return to idle by stomping down on the accelerator quickly a bit, and letting go immediately.  Then it returns to idle.  The idle speed micro switch, as far as i can determine, is always being clicked, at least when the throttle spool returns to the resting idle point (which isn't with the tab on the spool resting against the vertical pin.  which i guess is another question.  Is it supposed to?  It hits the pin at full acceleration on the other side, but not when idling.  I tried to make it do both, but couldn't win with that.  I ascertained that even in this resting position, both butterflies are fully closed inside the throttle valve, so i'm convinced it's ok).

I'm finding that by releasing that staver nut (which i think is the only one on the entire car out of interest) another "notch" at a time, is slowly improving the situation, but it's starting to get that armature quite loose feeling and waggles quite freely.  In fact, the threaded push bolt which clicks the idle speed switch is now over to one side, only just meeting with the metal of the switch, rather than sitting nicely in the middle of it.  Others have demonstrated with their car that their armature is solid feeling and works fine with the idle speed returning, but if i tighten up that staver nut to produce the same result, then the throttle becomes really stiff and sticky.  Back in 2015, immediately after my VOD work, when we were driving round the Lotus test track, my throttle got jammed at 4,500rpm!  and i had to get out the car to push it back to idle.  That was before i started loosening off the staver bit by bit.

I'll admit that when i had everything apart doing my VOD, i disassembled that whole assembly to clean it all up, including the springs throughout that whole throttle area, and realised that the original rubber on that armature pinion had all perished and was crumbling, so i had to devise a replacement setup using nitrile o rings etc, and i'm wondering whether my rushed, under pressure effort to get me going ready for Lotus, was simply not good enough.

Sorry for such a long explanation.  A video would have been better than all these words i guess.  Anyway.  Any help or ideas or comparisons of what your car does around that area?

Took the car out for a run at the weekend. I noticed that it was stuttering/jerky under acceleration. 
 This happens when under load. Engine will happily rev smoothly when in neutral.
Car starts fine and idles smoothly when hot or cold.
Stuttering seams to smooth slightly if I floor the throttle or disappears completely if I apply throttle very slowly.
Anyone have any ideas? I tried a tank of super unleaded but still have the issue today.

Thanks
Nick H

Ok, a pretty minor thing in the grand scheme of things, but as it’s on my mind......

The radio in 11477, whilst not a Craig or ASI, it is a post type radio (meaning the console is intact!)
This also means radio removal is difficult.

So the issue is there’s static ALL the time - the aerial doesn’t work, so I tried a cassette, but still immense static, when the volume is maxed out I can hear the music, amongst the static! Lol

So, clearly a bad ground.....where’s the easiest place to start looking?

This is it, an ARA “professional series”


Tris

On the week end I got vin~11789 started for the first time.

Had to rotate the distributor way past the "hold down" bolt so this afternoon I'll be taking it out and re seating the distributor, thereby re timing it (static).

Have all the meeting unit/ leads and fuel pipes off all ready, to do it the afternoon.

I had my mate Tim a retired Volvo mechanic on hand - he had just literally landed in the UK - after his holiday in Mexico.
I also had young Miles over from Bristol.

In all the excitement the guys (not me!! ) failed to attach the bar to the throttle spool and were wondering why it wouldn't rev up - dohhhh. Even in it's rudimentary condition it ticked over !!

A big step forward for me and goes someway to alleviating my fears on buying a project car that didn't / couldn't run !!

Will take the ubiquitous video this afternoon if all goes well :-)

As I’m getting the car nearer to MOT time, I’m finding bits and pieces that needed to be done as I go.

The newest discovery are the rubber bushes on the top shock mount.
Looking at DGo, they say 2 per shock? So I need 8?
I thought just one per shock on the top? 
I want to order some ready for when I’m back on the car next weekend.

While I’m here, anyone have the torque values for the nut on the top of the shocks?

P.S.....This is what I’m looking at getting
https://www.deloreango.com/uk/spax-rear-top-bush.html

Any other suggestions welcome

To: Tim Collins <Tim.Collins@outokumpu.com>


Good afternoon Tim 

Good to hear from you. I’ll forward your email to the three owners’ clubs in the British Isles. I hope some of their many members are able to turn out. It reads like a great day to be!

Best regards 

Barrie 
Outokumpu is what was once BSC Stainless of course. Tim was extraordinarily helpful to me when I was writing John Z, the DeLorean & Me so I’m hoping some of your members might like to take him up on his generous proposal and take their cars back to where the stainless steel came from.

Best regards 

Barrie 


On Tue, 8 May 2018 at 11:49, Tim Collins <Tim.Collins@outokumpu.com> wrote:

Quote:Dear Barrie,
 
I hope you are well.
 
I wondered if you could help with a (hopefully) simple request please.
 
Outokumpu Stainless Ltd is holding an ‘employees families day’ at our Sports and Social Club close to our works in Sheffield. The date for the event is Sunday 1 July 2018.
 
I would like to ask if any members of the Delorean owners club would be interested in bringing their cars to our event in Sheffield. We would cover expenses and feed the owners who were prepared to visit us in Sheffield.
 
Please let me know if you can help and if anyone interested wants to talk to me please ask them to call me on one of the numbers below.
 
Thank you and best regards.
 
Tim
 
Tim Collins
General Manager, Supply Chain
Outokumpu Europe
 
Tel;       +44 (0)114 261 6088
Mob;     +44 (0)7710 319 458