You may also notice a bolt-less hole to the right of the upper pulley wheel. That hole also stripped out, and those threads were past the timing cover in the engine block itself! What to do, what to do...
For the lower hole, I purchased a Time Sert thread repair kit (on the left in the photo below). The $70 was steep, but best to do it right. For that hole in the engine block, Joe fortunately determined the hole was deeper than the bolt was long, so I ordered special long-threaded M7 bolts from a company in England via Ebay (in the right of the photo).
I discovered that my DeLorean was missing the crucial A/C belt tension bolt that would make the whole process much much easier, so we restored that part to the assembly as well.
Joe and I also had a hell of a time with a clutch bleeder cable that is supposed to make bleeding the slave cylinder easier in the future. The cable seals came undone during installation and the cable leaked hydraulic fluid into the valley of death. Ugh. Special-T-Auto sent a replacement that was much better quality. That has now been installed.
Another task involved lowering the rear shocks. Ever since I installed them last winter with the front now on lowering springs, the rear looked way too high off the tires. I ordered some shock adjustment spanners from Jegs and muscled the shocks down half an inch each.
Joe and I also replaced the sparkplugs with Bosch Platinums, the fuel injector boots and clips, the distributor cap and rotor as well as all of the sparkplug wires...
We also completely replaced the 30-year-old catalytic converter with a heat-shielded one from Special-T-Auto, replaced a cracked muffler bracket and all the rubber bushings around the muffler.
Overall the engine bay is really starting to come together again. Enjoy the before and after (so far) photos below...
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