http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ DML - the DeLorean Mailing List Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:59:44 GMT Bob Brandys http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/message/79146 http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/message/79146 Only 11 more weeks until DCS 09! The Plans for DCS 09 Prelude are being finalized. Here is the Schedule for Monday- The Alternative Energy Day Tour. Please Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:43:53 GMT T. Madsen http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/message/79145 http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/message/79145 If anyone needs a driver's side door, you can email me off the list... there is one on ebay right now for $500. mine's cleaner--no dents, dings, or Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:04:47 GMT Dave Swingle http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/message/79144 http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/message/79144 Change the sender. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:03:58 GMT Farrar Hudkins http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/message/79143 http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/message/79143 You have am OEM (wrong) gauge. All vendors these days sell one that will register properly. Farrar Hudkins #2613 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:37:49 GMT Clint Pearson http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/message/79142 http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/message/79142 We recently dusted off #4739 and taken a few drives (including for inspection). I've noticed the oil gauge always reads around 80 or higher, and twitches in Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:36:47 GMT Chris Hawes http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/message/79141 http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/message/79141 The main pipe has ruptured at its weakest point. Although I re-secured it a few years ago (it came loose and the steering knuckle gouged it slightly resulting Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:12:04 GMT Kevin Abato http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/message/79140 http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/message/79140 When my driver door got "dinged/pinched" on the outer edge where the inner and outer stainless overlap (double thick) I was told its almost impossible to work Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:31:31 GMT rmclemns@... http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/message/79139 http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/message/79139 As promised, here's the update on the fender.  The seller did not get back to me as promised with closeup pictures of the two areas.  So I downloaded his Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:47:41 GMT welmoedj http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/message/79138 http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/message/79138 ... That a figure that will do (actually I calculated it to be 960 grams at the time of my car's conversion). Did you also add fluor to the refrigerant? That Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:20:56 GMT Bryan Pearce http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/message/79137 http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/message/79137 Chris, You might have already checked this... If the high pressure hose is not secured, it will rub against the steering shaft and eventually rupture. Be Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:22:37 GMT mike clemens http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/message/79136 http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/message/79136 Just a heads-up on the fender, take a real close look at the pictures. There appears to be a minor ding in the lower front (just behind the fascia mount) and Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:22:11 GMT Dave Swingle http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/message/79135 http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/message/79135 That can happen, and will make it move around a bit more than normal. But with the sender out of the tank, when you flip it over the gauge usually takes 15 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:19:07 GMT Chris Hawes http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/message/79134 http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/message/79134 Today of all days it had to happen. It was hot, hot, hot. I was driving the car hard with the aircon on full blast and then a loud air brake sound coming Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:10:29 GMT Martin Gutkowski http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/message/79133 http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/message/79133 If it's one of the new DMC remanufactured senders, could it be that one or both of the little screws in the bottom have fallen out ? Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:05:19 GMT Elvis Nocita http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/message/79132 http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/message/79132 I haven't been in there for quite a while, but isn't there something looking like a coin on the bottom of the sending unit that works like a valve or filter to