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timemachine16606 · 5 years ago

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DMCS August Bank Holiday Weekend Tech for 16606

After a DeLorean hiatus since August last year I’m finally getting back to my blog. To pick up where I left off, the following records the fantastic work undertaken by Dan Knowlton, Alistair Vanstone and Julien (”Bandit” on the Eurotec Forum - apologies Julien, I don’t know your surname).

Over the bank holiday weekend those great guys of the DeLorean Club UK sacrificed their time to take my car into their care to recommission the air conditioning. This coincided with a family vacation to Devon so it worked well to drop the D off on the way and collect it on the return journey. Inevitably, in the lead up to the weekend, additional items got added to the wish list. As a result not only was the air conditioning recommissioned, the shocks were changed to front and rear Spax. This was due to the leaking of the driver’s side rear shock absorber (probably happening during the July 2019 1500 mile round-trip to Hamburg. After one or two hairy moments during this recent trip with the absence of a functioning hand-brake, the guys also replaced the pads and installed new cables to recommission it. It is now said in Eurotec Club circles that I now have the best functioning hand-brake in a DeLorean! What’s more, when dropping off the car I had mentioned the trouble I had getting my side marker lights off in order to change to LED bulbs. Well guess what, they even used the box of LED bulbs in my boot and replaced them for me.

But first, time for a doors aloft photo of Dan’s i8, his DMC-12 and my Tesla Model X.

One of the first jobs was to get Timemachine16606 on the lift.

Next the new air conditioning compressor pump was prepared (100746).

Below, the other air conditioning parts required for the job,

Orifice Tube (109122)

High Pressure Cut-out Switch (106917)

Low Pressure Switch (100744)

R134a Filling Nipples PAIR (100016)

Air Con Condenser to Evaporator Hose (110525)

Air Con Compressor to Accumulator Split Hose (100750)

Air Con Compressor to Condenser Split Hose (100748)

Air Conditioning Condenser (106327)

O ring seal (AC system) (2 required per car) (106866)

O ring seal (AC system) (2 required per car) (106868)

Once the parts were fitted and testing was taking place, the guys encountered a problem. Unfortunately there was an issue with the air-conditioning running at high pressure. Following much investigation it was identified that the driver’s side fan was operating in the reverse direction. How my DeLorean made it all the way to Hamburg and back during the hottest days on record across The Netherlands and Germany, without over-heating, is a miracle.

The sockets in these photos are triangular in shape and can only be plugged in one way, therefore it is the opinion of the guys that this must have been a factory error that existed for the cars entire life up until this point in time.

Dan solved the issue by cutting the cables and re-joining them to the opposite cables to enable the fan to rotate in the correct direction.

Whilst the air conditioning was being sorted the Spax shock absorbers were unpacked and prepared for fitting.

They were fitted and Dan suggested I might want the rear Spax to be coloured black so the bright yellow isn’t obvious when viewing the car from behind. I agreed with this, liking my D to have, as near as possible, an original look.

One of the final jobs was the hand-brake, below the new Ferodo pads.

The cables used were as follows,

Parking Brake Handbrake Cable - RH (101964)

Parking Brake Handbrake Cable - LH (101965)

On the way home I collected the car. The air-conditioning was working well. We got all the way back to London, from Southampton, and then once in typical bumper to bumper London traffic, the D started to overheat. It was the first time this had happened to me and I kind of knew what to do, but I still checked in with Dan and Al and they talked me through likely causes and what I needed to do to get the car home. So, after walking to a local store and buying numerous litres of bottled water, the car had cooled and was then filled up with the water before heading home. The cause was probably due to the coolant being low following the weekend’s work.

#DMC-12 #DeLorean #bttf #car restoration

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adsthumbsblog · 3 years ago

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