Project #3193

[Barson]

Hi

I'm resurrecting this thread as thr original one got deleted a couple of months back.

I bought the car last summer and after it arrived at the tail end of October 2008 i started with the restoration.

I've uploaded some additional files to flickr.

original pictures:










































I removed the doors, front and rear facias, hood, engine cover top and bottom.
I sent off the wheels to be refurbished by 'the wheel specialists' who did a good job (they also installed new tyres p600 and p6000s)
I started to repair the fibreglass section in the centre of the car in anticipation of installing Ed's stainless door support which i did back in december/january. I got four new door hinges; three from DPNW and one from 'The Don' in the states (he also sold me a pedal box to go into this car )
I reinstalled the doors (hung them - not aligned) and acquired a new pass side torsion bar from DMCH. still awaiting a driver's side bar because as you will note both torsion bars were in two pieces when i bought the car . the passenger side door will now open properly, but needs adjustment befor it'll lock and unlock properly.

more pictures on the flickr site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32731331@N04/

more to follow.

[Barson]

more recent photos.











































So as you can see I pulled the motor out (with tranny attached) and mounted it on a stand and stowed it at the back of the garage for cannibalization later.
Separating the tranny and motor I noticed that the clutch plate was well worn. I mean the car was only supposed to have done *around* 9000 miles, but it was very smooth indeed. Interesting find.

The rest of the photos simply show me stripping the frame down. As you can see the frame is pretty Swiss cheesed and needed to come out to be recovered. Interesting discoveries were that the clutch line was pinched just as it ran out the side of the centre tunnel just before the trailing arm. How’d that happen? The pass side brake line was rusted through and separated. The braided ground from the lower crank case to the engine mounts on the frame was broken - completely. Although in separating the body I did find a 'supplementary' ground running from the transmission casing to the ground terminal of where the battery would be.
particular areas of rust damage are in the corners where the fuel tank is (no surprises there) pass side engine cradle and all along the flat flange bit that runs along the outside of the centre tunnel of the driver's side.

Nice shot of the frame and the body separate, there

!!COMPRESSING AND UNCOMRESSING THOSE COIL SPRINGS WAS A BALL ACHE TO SAY THE LEAST!!. Worst part of the job. ever.

interesting find in the centre tunnel, when i proped up the frame to remove the accumulator and fuel piping was a key marked 'fits Volvo' i tried it in the door and it fits (but does not turn). maybe it was stowed in the centre tunnel in case of emergency? I'll take a look at it later when i come to work properley on the doors.


I've also stripped the interior (basically every piece bar a couple of knee pads and the centre column were destroyed).

[Tourettes Tony]

i shall take back all i have said about my car when i first see it, thatys a lot of work there mate TT

[Barson]

making progress (slowly).

[Tourettes Tony]

mine took me 14 months, 2kg of prozac, 2 gallons of regain, maybe thats why im a bit odd lol TT :lol:

[Chris Hawes]

Where about in Bolton are you based Barson, I grew up there? You're also not very far from Dave Howarth who has quite a lot of OEM stuff...

[Nick H]

That's a serious project!

I thought Dean's first car's fuel tank was nasty... I think ChrisP had some new tanks. Which would save digging through the sludge.
Are you repairing the frame yourself?

Nick H

[Guinney1971]

F****** hell Dave, that is one hell of
a project car!!

The last car I saw that was as bad as that was at DMCH in 2003 - I'll find the pics later
if I can of that and post them up.

Looks like your making good progress tho, and cant wait to see the finished results!

[A Van]

Looks much better already Dave, the amount of cars in the UK that have had frame off is beginning to mount up!

What was the story with it being left like that?

[Barson]

I'm in Bradshaw - which part were you from Chris?

I've already given the fuel tank a good going over firstly with soapy water then with acetone. much cleaner that it was

The car was from Florida, in fact here it is on the guy's drive:

http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&F ... &encType=1

the main house on the corner of north ocean blvd and lake view drive.

you see his drive wraps around the side of the house you see the Delorean parked between the house and two jet skis.
match it up with the photo and there you go.

it was sat since 2001, last *attempted* turn over was in 2003. (I even found part of the coolant hose was fabricated out of PVC plumbing piping presumably installed in the attempt to turn it over)
this guy's house is about 100 yrds away from the sea, hence the frame damage and to be frank, the hood, doors and froont facias just lifted off because the brackets were rotton through. easy stripdown. you'll notice there was two inches of water in the battery box (not sure if that's UK weather of florida weather; the fibreglass had a hole in it where the studs go through holding the door support in place.) the car was in no way water tight.

[Barson]

Nick H Wrote:That's a serious project!

I thought Dean's first car's fuel tank was nasty... I think ChrisP had some new tanks. Which would save digging through the sludge.
Are you repairing the frame yourself?

Nick H

no mate I'm hopefully sending it to Ed's to be worked on I've tapped up Glen (to take the frame) who i think is going over there soon, but I'm not sure if he's back in the country yet from his holiday.

[Barson]

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

look what I've got:





a little premature on ordering , but i need to make sure I've got all the requisite parts ready for when i get the frame back.

[A Van]

Good idea Dave

They make all the difference, are you polybushing as well or not?

Al

[Barson]

yep. just spent a shhhed load on a full set of poly bushes from these people:

http://www.superflex.co.uk/

I'll also be getting the front swaybar kit from Toby sooner or later.

[Tourettes Tony]

do they do the anti roll bar bushes 4 of em ? TT