California, USA to England, here we go!

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Re: California, USA to England, here we go!

Postby Admin-bloke » Sat Oct 01, 2016 1:43 pm

Nice !

Keep up the good work :thumbsup:
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Re: California, USA to England, here we go!

Postby Westy » Sat Oct 01, 2016 2:45 pm

I reached the photo upload limit of 30 :o but lets continue!

What's that "what about the frame on the underside!?" haha, I didn't forget

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Ooooooo, nearly forgot! While looking at new bits for my interior, because that also needs seeing too, I got talking too a leather upholsterer and he was up for doing my entire interior. So then came the removal, right in the middle of me doing everything else! :doh:

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So with that all removed and sent away I then continued on with the cooling, suspension and brakes
Also whilst all this was happening I'd sent away all of my suspension components to be stripped and powder coated. And with a load of new bits started the reassembly!

And it started with in famous lower ball joints! :violin:

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Then came the cooling. With new radiator, fans but luckily my condenser was good! :clap: ARB, shock etc.

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Then, as the lower arm is an absolute b***h to remove, I thought I'd better renew everything on it. So came the removel of the.......powder coated baked into place bush. Not fun.

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And whilst I was busy, my brother Alex decided to make a start on my 2.7 engine rebuild

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I then got carried away, not taking many pictures of my progress, because it then all came together at the front with new springs, refurbed steering rack etc. A nice leap forwards :clap:

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And then the rear

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And then brake calipers needed a complete rebuild, and they were disgusting!

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And with a real good clean and paint they look pucker! And the gold is just to replicate the original yellow/gold plating 8-)

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Then the new internals, seals etc.

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A little comparison, before and after

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On to the car it went! With new pads

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Then my brother continued with my engine. We decided to test the head gaskets and the liner gaskets while it was out of the car, by filling the block with coolant. And lucky we did! The bleeding head gaskets literally bled, they leaked so we had to empty the engine of coolant. There was no easy way to do this because as usual the little side plugs/holes for releasing coolant were stuck so........

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So this is were I am right now. I guess people won't be impressed by my speed, almost glacial :dance: haha. But the frame took an absolute life age to do, losing the will to live etc but hey ho :thumbsup:

I'll update this sooner next time so it doesn't take up most of my day haha 8-)
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Re: California, USA to England, here we go!

Postby jerzybondov » Sat Oct 01, 2016 9:36 pm

Massively impressive work - HUGE amounts done there - especially when you consider that any job takes 3x longer on a DeLorean than it has any right to do.

Did you face any problems with corrosion getting everything apart? What's your previous resto experience? Is your D the first or do you have history? :D
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Re: California, USA to England, here we go!

Postby A Van » Sat Oct 01, 2016 9:45 pm

Top work again from Norfolk!

Well done and thanks for taking the time to upload the pictures.
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Re: California, USA to England, here we go!

Postby mec » Sat Oct 01, 2016 9:50 pm

nice work guys ! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :clap:
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Re: California, USA to England, here we go!

Postby Westy » Sun Oct 02, 2016 8:24 pm

jerzybondov wrote:Massively impressive work - HUGE amounts done there - especially when you consider that any job takes 3x longer on a DeLorean than it has any right to do.

Did you face any problems with corrosion getting everything apart? What's your previous resto experience? Is your D the first or do you have history? :D


Thanks very much :D
And no not at all actually, everything came apart easily..... well almost everything

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The CV bolts were rock hard! Almost round a couple of them off, but luckily not! I've got a lovely set of Dbolts waiting on the shelf so :dance:
And of course the hub nut. Solid! I guess I'm not totally weak haha
So yeah apart from those, everything came apart rather splendidly :thumbsup:
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Re: California, USA to England, here we go!

Postby Westy » Sun Oct 02, 2016 8:27 pm

Thanks to everyone again for the encouraging words :D
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Re: California, USA to England, here we go!

Postby Westy » Thu Oct 06, 2016 11:00 am

jerzybondov wrote:Massively impressive work - HUGE amounts done there - especially when you consider that any job takes 3x longer on a DeLorean than it has any right to do.

Did you face any problems with corrosion getting everything apart? What's your previous resto experience? Is your D the first or do you have history? :D


Ohh and the D is my first resto :dmcdoors: :D
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Re: California, USA to England, here we go!

Postby Kev blur » Tue Oct 11, 2016 5:47 pm

Loving the photo' s and seeing bits I didn't know existed. I wouldn't be able to sleep with the car in that many pieces, your a brave man.

Keep up the great work.

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Re: California, USA to England, here we go!

Postby Chuffingheck » Thu Oct 13, 2016 12:04 am

Loving the pictures. Great work too. One could say it has been inspiring.
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