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Re: Frank the Ramshackle Omega
Reply #15 - 13. Mar 2010 at 10:25

So, my donated foglight switch arrived this morning (thanks Chris - Mutantcav) so I got a few jobs done...

First I switched the front fog light blank over from the faulty switch to the good one as the new one had provision for front fogs too which ours didn't then slotted it in..

Fogs on

Fogs off

Then onto the washer problem

Off with the grill

out with the pump

out with the filter - look at the state of it!

cleaned up and back together

We now have nice powerful washers! Just need a good run to sort the emissions and a tyre and we should have that MOT!

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philrich Omega Baron Offline Proud to be an Englishman, free to speak my mind. Posts: 4259 Hartlepool, North East England Gender: Drives: 2002 2.2CDX 4dr Auto. LPG Converted.	Re: Frank the Ramshackle Omega Reply #16 - 15. Mar 2010 at 14:00 It's looking good
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mattg Junior Member Offline Posts: 77 Northants Drives: Omega 2.0 16v GLS / BMW 325, 205GTI	Re: Frank the Ramshackle Omega Reply #17 - 15. Mar 2010 at 15:20 Thaks mate. It's gone back in for it's retest today so i'm keeping my fingers crossed!
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mattg Junior Member Offline Posts: 77 Northants Drives: Omega 2.0 16v GLS / BMW 325, 205GTI	Re: Frank the Ramshackle Omega Reply #18 - 15. Mar 2010 at 17:15 MOT passed Incase anyone wants to follow Frank on Facebook, here's a link... http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Frank-the-Ramshackle-Omega/212135322162?ref=ts Obviously will keep the updates on here too! and I thought I would celebrate with some mildy immature badgework... And a wash..
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Entwood Omega King Offline Quietly Confident Posts: 11488 North Wiltshire Gender: Drives: 3.2 Elite (with LPG)	Re: Frank the Ramshackle Omega Reply #19 - 15. Mar 2010 at 19:56 Looks too smart to be called "Ramshackle" ....
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mattg

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Re: Frank the Ramshackle Omega
Reply #20 - 15. Mar 2010 at 20:03

Entwood wrote on 15. Mar 2010 at 19:56:

Looks too smart to be called "Ramshackle" .... Wink

It does in the pics mate. When I bought it I said if it looks as good in the metal as it does in the pics there's no way we can use it for the rally.

It is however really rough when you see it.. poor filler work and overspray EVERYWHERE. It's solid where it counts though. Wink

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Re: Frank the Ramshackle Omega
Reply #21 - 24. Mar 2010 at 21:49

Good to see the parts come to good use, other bits on there way to you tomorrow mate Thumbs Up!

My current car almost falls into the ramshackle category at £200...but I reckon they would tell me to feck off when I turned up in a V reg 3.0 elite

Good luck to you all and anything you need just let me know...happy to help the good cause Thumbs Up!

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Re: Frank the Ramshackle Omega
Reply #22 - 25. Mar 2010 at 22:07

Thanks mate. The parts have done the trick niceley so far.

The rally we do is £150 max (although you can spend out on the car, we are aiming for £250 all in) and must be older than a '95... Planning a major update for the bank holiday weekend, cambelt, waterpump, tensioners, aux belt, oil and filter, new cam sensor and new AICV. All of which cost us about £20... Result! Looking forward to getting stuck in!

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mattg Junior Member Offline Posts: 77 Northants Drives: Omega 2.0 16v GLS / BMW 325, 205GTI	Re: Frank the Ramshackle Omega Reply #23 - 29. Mar 2010 at 14:54 Nice result today. Opie oils have offered to donate the oil and a filter for Frank www.opieoils.co.uk I'll certainly be using them from now on for my other cars.
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Re: Frank the Ramshackle Omega
Reply #24 - 04. Apr 2010 at 13:20

So, got quite a bit sorted out today.

The team arrive...

Marked up the aux belt, note the cambelt cover is loose as it's broken in the middle

Off with the old and on with the new...

We replaced the rollers, tensioner, waterpump and of course cambelt.

We didn't want to have anything getting into the cambelt cover and not wanting to spend out on bits we improvised..

Take one scrap 205 door from my pug project and cut a plate...

Drill and bolt up

Sorted!

We also flushed the cooling system and filled it with nice clean antifreeze mix. It was when running it up to temperature we moved the loom a little bit to get it all back where it should be and it died. I bit of investigation later we found a real bodge to the cam sensor wiring...

We sorted that and it's running well again!

Next job was to whip the doorcards off so we can sort the central locking next time. We also found there are no rear speakers, one standard front speaker and one sony speaker just resting in the door with the wires just wrapped around it so we'll sort that too...

Mollie approves

And that was about it for the day! Off goes Frank back to where he is stored...

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M Omega Baron Offline MV6 Posts: 2697 Nottingham Gender: Drives: Opel Omega 2.6 MV6	Re: Frank the Ramshackle Omega Reply #25 - 04. Apr 2010 at 13:37 What a fantastic thread Matt, really interesting, for a good cause and full of fun Best of luck with the rally, shes looking good, and I have joined the fans of Frank on Facebook....!!
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Del Boy Omega Lord Offline Posts: 7962 Ashford, Kent Gender: Drives: 2006 '56' BMW 5 Series	Re: Frank the Ramshackle Omega Reply #26 - 04. Apr 2010 at 13:45 Looking good mate, I had a 3 series M Sport too, in Grey
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Re: Frank the Ramshackle Omega
Reply #27 - 04. Apr 2010 at 13:47

M wrote on 04. Apr 2010 at 13:37:

What a fantastic thread Matt, really interesting, for a good cause and full of fun

Best of luck with the rally, shes looking good, and I have joined the fans of Frank on Facebook....!!

Thumbs Up!

Thanks mate! It is all good fun, we're really pleased with the Omega so far. We're finding loads of bodges but it's satisfying to gradually get them all sorted. Looking forward to getting started on the decoration soon! Thumbs Up!

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mattg Junior Member Offline Posts: 77 Northants Drives: Omega 2.0 16v GLS / BMW 325, 205GTI	Re: Frank the Ramshackle Omega Reply #28 - 04. Apr 2010 at 13:48 Del Boy wrote on 04. Apr 2010 at 13:45: Looking good mate, I had a 3 series M Sport too, in Grey Thanks mate, yeah I really like mine... Like the look of your 5 too
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Del Boy Omega Lord Offline Posts: 7962 Ashford, Kent Gender: Drives: 2006 '56' BMW 5 Series	Re: Frank the Ramshackle Omega Reply #29 - 04. Apr 2010 at 13:56 mattg wrote on 04. Apr 2010 at 13:48: Del Boy wrote on 04. Apr 2010 at 13:45: Looking good mate, I had a 3 series M Sport too, in Grey Thanks mate, yeah I really like mine... Like the look of your 5 too Ta
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