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Re: Just another B2 Omega out there
« Reply #15 on: 26 March 2014, 10:06:21 »

Very nice, how do you fill the oil with the Vectra cam covers....?
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Re: Just another B2 Omega out there
« Reply #16 on: 26 March 2014, 15:32:25 »

Very nice, how do you fill the oil with the Vectra cam covers....?

By moving the plenum out of the way. Would also be possible to switch the lefthand cover to the right side and vice versa to get the oil filler cap to a bit more available position, but after that the sparkplug leads wouldn't sit to their places as good as they do now afaik.

Minor discomfort in use tbh, but luckily it doesn't seem to be consuming too much oil, so no need to top it up between oil changes. Anyhow, while the plenum is off, there's no excuse to leave this undone http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=90653.0  :)
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Re: Just another B2 Omega out there
« Reply #17 on: 27 March 2014, 05:48:08 »

Excellent ... Omega keeps you busy for sure  :y
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Re: Just another B2 Omega out there
« Reply #18 on: 26 April 2014, 18:36:33 »

So, back again. Remembered the last oil change a bit wrong and did a 2000 km easter trip to northern Finland (born and raised there) first. Everything went quite smoothly, but once again Omega managed to surprise me ::)

Wipers managed to f**k up on the way there, luckily there wasn't much rain. The wipers linkage had came loose from the wipermotors shaft, fixed it there. Took few minutes after a lot of wiggling to get the wiper arms out of the way. So far I've made two trips there and first time my outside temp sensor fubard on the way and now this, so maybe the car doesn't like going up north ;D

On the + side, chancing the old water pump stopped my little coolant loss. It was making some noise already and there was a little play on the shaft, so no wonder.

Fuel consumption was quite ok, about 8,5 litres/ 100 km or about 27,7 mpg. Four grown men in the car + "some" stuff (lots and lots of beer hidden in there)  ::)



Went to the trip on winter tires, wanted to play it safe. Although summer tires would have been already justified, but you never know when some springstorm bites you up there.



And today I finally changed back to summertires and cleaned the car a bit. Now it seems to be just hard driving for a while, no big services in sight. Oils and similar light service only, and repair those rusty rear wheel arches also. Atleast I hope so :-X



And, yeah, I know, would do some good to lower it a bit. Atm my budget doesn't allow me to do that, so I'll have to wait a bit. I would also like to change that original grill to an Irmscher grill, or something like that and some other "spoiler" to the rear door. Only aesthetics, so no hurry on those :)
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Re: Just another B2 Omega out there
« Reply #19 on: 26 April 2014, 20:20:27 »

You certainly have been busy!

The summer wheels weren't getting me at first but I have to admit they are slowly growing on me :y
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Re: Just another B2 Omega out there
« Reply #20 on: 27 April 2014, 00:05:17 »

Nice motor mate its coming on nicely :)
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Re: Just another B2 Omega out there
« Reply #21 on: 27 April 2014, 18:44:58 »

Good looking motor and  :y and liking those alloys  :y :y
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Re: Just another B2 Omega out there
« Reply #22 on: 15 May 2014, 13:10:26 »

I might even see your Omega irl sometime :) It's good that there are others keeping their omegas in good shape here in Finland :) Like it!

-Mika
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Re: Just another B2 Omega out there
« Reply #23 on: 16 May 2014, 07:24:39 »

A well kept motor, love those wheels  :)
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Re: Just another B2 Omega out there
« Reply #24 on: 17 July 2014, 19:03:56 »

I've been quite quiet about Omega's life for a while, but no worries. Still going strong.

Got air conditioner maintenanced today, there's a small leak in the maintenance valve in the high pressure tubing. Had only 136 grams of R 134a left, I'll try to find a good second hand one. Luckily the leak is so small, that AC should stay alive for the rest of  the summer.

Otherwise things have been good and I've only washed and driven her (Haven't driven that much lately, got my Honda Hornet back on the road also :)). Polished paintjob also few weeks back, I'll up some pics later. Maybe things have gotten too easy, now I'm getting paranoid because I think that the coolant level has dropped atleast 2 mm since the timebelt change ;D

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Re: Just another B2 Omega out there
« Reply #25 on: 12 November 2014, 17:09:17 »

Thanks to TheBoy for updating the image URL's, pics should be visible once again :)

Damn thing hasn't let me down yet (:P), so not much to tell for now. Made some longer hunting trips with her and she has been running nicely. On my first trip for this fall, I had my summertires on and as expected, there was some heavy snowing the day before I drove back home. The roads were used by some timbertrucks, squeezing the snow up nicely which had been followed with some raining in the night. So the roads were "quite" slippery. Not excatly the most relaxing (or the fastest) 200 km's to drive before getting to some bigger and unfrozen roads  >:(

Passed MOT test last friday with flying colours and even a bit of praise from the inspector.

Winter is coming, again, and I haven't installed that pre-heater yet. Should really get on with it. Also planning to clean the breathers and maybe chancing the thermostat, but we'll see. And waxing her up too before they start to salt the roads. Going to get some pics out of those jobs once I get on with them.

-Miro
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Re: Just another B2 Omega out there
« Reply #26 on: 12 November 2014, 18:42:57 »

Lovely motor
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Re: Just another B2 Omega out there
« Reply #27 on: 13 February 2015, 17:39:57 »

She's been running well and oilservice coming soon. Front strut bearings started to make some noise earlier, changed those and all is well (and quiet) again, when steering. Didn't take any photos from that, but I did find some photos from last summer accidentally. Had saved them on PC, just forgot those  :D Anyways, here they are, just a bit of polishing and stuff.

Clean, but not shiny



Front end done, some old Merc there ;)



Sideview



Got myself on camera too



Finished product



-Miro
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Re: Just another B2 Omega out there
« Reply #28 on: 14 February 2015, 22:28:42 »

Great looking car :y
You have put your own style on it, very nice in my opinion.
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Maintained well too.
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Re: Just another B2 Omega out there
« Reply #29 on: 28 February 2015, 10:04:48 »

Shining now! :D
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