My DeLorean Journal

Today I have a rough plan for something to work on:

-Check out why the blower motor makes so much noise.

-Fix the sound system so I can listen to music from more than one blown rear speaker.

My thoughts on the blower motor was that maybe there was a mouse nest in the fan cage or the bearings on the motor were bad. The motor was really easy to remove - six screws to lower the motor from the passenger kick panel. It was surprisingly clean. While *carefully* holding the motor, I turned the fan on low. It started vibrating pretty good! So I thought maybe the metal balance clip that are on the blades was missing. I looked inside the fan cage and saw the balance clip, but there was something else... I pulled a good sized little rock out of the blades. Turned the fan back on low, then high - it runs good now, smooth too! I reassembled it and turned it on. It runs quiet and blows much better without a rock in it! ;-)

Next on the list is the speakers, I decided that I would start with the front speakers as their removal doesn't require any other panel dis-assembly (from what I've read removing the back ones are a task) I removed one of the front speakers. Its a 3.5" round little thing, I'm not even sure if they make speakers that small anymore... Headed over to Soundtrack with the speaker and ask them if they have that size.

While I was running the wire for the rear speakers (don't have them yet, just going to run new wire.) I decided that I would clean up the wire mess in the center console. I shortened the power antenna wire, which was about 5 feet too long, and replaced the antenna cable with an new one (just the extension really, the cable coming off the power antenna only sticks out about 2 feet from the rear firewall) lucky for me I had a spare antenna extension cable laying around. 

While I was working on the wiring in the rear fuse/harness access panels I found a shit load of mouse truds (pun intended) So I got out the shop vac and spent a good hour and a half cleaning that up. I put some traps in the back although I don't think there are any mice there any more, there’s nothing in there for them to eat.