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General Car Chat / Re: MOT day
« on: 19 August 2020, 18:09:04 »
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Omega General Help / Re: 2.6 into 2.2
« on: 19 August 2020, 12:00:29 »
Omegas, and Senators before them, have provided my family with cheap, luxury motoring for many years. But the bodies were not made to last for ever, and when the dreaded rust strikes, they have to go. I have to wonder whether your 2.2 body has enough life left in it to justify all this effort.
You could probably pick up a decent 2.6 for a song, if that's what you really want, but it's bound to have faults of its own.
You could probably pick up a decent 2.6 for a song, if that's what you really want, but it's bound to have faults of its own.
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Omega General Help / Re: How to get to bolt for wishbone inside engine bay 1995 Omega
« on: 18 August 2020, 12:53:08 »
My technique is to heave the strut out of the way with a pulley system, and tie it there. Then insert the wishbone horizontally, push a drift up through the holes and wiggle it, then a bigger drift, finally the 14mm bolt, then drop the bolt in from the top.
The man in Portugal who fitted the wishbones to my 2.5 was so relieved to get the bolts in from the bottom he put the nuts on and tightened them. He also replaced the coil pack with a new one strapped to the LH head.
The man in Portugal who fitted the wishbones to my 2.5 was so relieved to get the bolts in from the bottom he put the nuts on and tightened them. He also replaced the coil pack with a new one strapped to the LH head.
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Omega General Help / Re: How to get to bolt for wishbone inside engine bay 1995 Omega
« on: 18 August 2020, 07:56:30 »I've not had any trouble with dropping the bolts into the chassis rails.Now you are muddling me. The front of the car is the end where the headlights are, the rear is where the tail lights are. The horizontal wishbone bolt, 88mm long is at the front, and the vertical bolt is at the back, and a mere 77mm long. I once put the longer bolt in the rear, vertical slot, where it fitted perfectly well, but involved more turns to tighten.
But I have confused the front and rear ones. The front bolt is just too short to fit the nut when you put it in the rear location......
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Omega General Help / Re: How to get to bolt for wishbone inside engine bay 1995 Omega
« on: 17 August 2020, 22:41:08 »
The bolt or nut you might drop into the subframe is the rear vertical bolt, the 77mm long one. I have found one, with nut, as shown above. In the olden (Senator?) days I used to do what was told and used new bolts. More recently, I have bought the magnificent 70 pound kits of 2 wishbones, 2 drop links and 2 track rods, but no nuts and bolts, so I always reused originals. If you do lose yours in the subframe I will post above to you.
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Omega General Help / Re: How to get to bolt for wishbone inside engine bay 1995 Omega
« on: 17 August 2020, 11:42:12 »Thanks for the replies. I cannot see the hole on passengers side, because of the part in the photo, above the bolt hole. Would this have to be removed, or am I looking in the wrong area? Do the pipes on drivers side unclip and move enough to allow access to the bolt? The nuts are under the car, as the wishbones look like they are the original ones, from when the car was made.Don't apologise, I reckon it's challenging. Haynes treats it lightly. I know he has to be concise, but he talks of the vertical front mounting bolt and the horizontal rear mounting bolt. I reckon the front bolt is horizontal and the rear bolt vertical.
Sorry for asking, it probably is a simple job. But my brain still has bad days, since the stroke.
Addy
He says always use new nuts and bolts. Good to have them available in case you drop one in the sub frame.
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Omega General Help / Re: How to get to bolt for wishbone inside engine bay 1995 Omega
« on: 16 August 2020, 15:09:32 »
When you have supported the front of the car securely, and removed a front wheel, crawl under the car, find the nut on the bottom of the bolt. Put a light beneath it and you will find you can see it from above, bonnet open. As Nick says, manoeuvre a socket spanner on 2 long wobbly extension rods on to the head of the bolt, have SWMBO hold it from turning, then crawl underneath and undo the nut.
The fun job is aligning the hole in the new wishbone with the holes in the subframe, to facilitate dropping in the bolt. Once it is peeping through, turning the bolt from above will ease it all the way down.
The fun job is aligning the hole in the new wishbone with the holes in the subframe, to facilitate dropping in the bolt. Once it is peeping through, turning the bolt from above will ease it all the way down.
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Omega General Help / Re: Original hose spring clip
« on: 15 August 2020, 12:54:21 »
To seal well all hose clips need to be the right size. Spring clips work over a very narrow range, and can be hard to remove if the tongues are not accessible.
Jubilee clips claim a wide range, like 35-50mm, but if used on too small a hose the nut part of the clip will have the wrong curvature and allow leakage. On my Astra and Vectra bottom hose connections, 35-50mm jubilees leaked, but 25-40 jubilees sealed well.
Spring clips can rust through and disappear. My daughter set off from home for London last Christmas, only to ring from Leigh Delamere, claiming the header tank upper hose had come off, releasing all the coolant. I drove there with spare spring clip, antifreeze and water, and sent her on her way.
Jubilee clips claim a wide range, like 35-50mm, but if used on too small a hose the nut part of the clip will have the wrong curvature and allow leakage. On my Astra and Vectra bottom hose connections, 35-50mm jubilees leaked, but 25-40 jubilees sealed well.
Spring clips can rust through and disappear. My daughter set off from home for London last Christmas, only to ring from Leigh Delamere, claiming the header tank upper hose had come off, releasing all the coolant. I drove there with spare spring clip, antifreeze and water, and sent her on her way.
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Omega General Help / Re: Reconditioning ignition locks - are we stuffed?
« on: 10 August 2020, 16:54:20 »raid some glove box locks ......As Andy says, you have a spare and little used lock in your glove box, same key. They re quite fun to overhaul too, there is a guide on this forum. Don't get over confident and pull they key out with the lock cylinder out of the barrel, though, or all the springs and slides will ping out and vanish on the carpet.
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Omega General Help / Re: cant get started
« on: 07 August 2020, 09:14:48 »
Are Omegas particularly prone to crank sensor failure, or do all modern cars sufffer similarly?
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General Car Chat / Re: Couple of niggling fault codes on the Barge... C1022/C1022-0019
« on: 24 July 2020, 17:57:34 »
Gosh, what a battle! Well done, Doc, you got there in the end, aided by a small Indy.
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General Car Chat / Re: Service due light cancellation
« on: 22 July 2020, 19:40:12 »
Thanks to all for help. Problem is now solved.
Picture above shows the base of bulb no. 3, offside rear light cluster, which is the bulb which can be twin filament. The picture shows it is clearly single filament. The bulb envelope looked a bit blackened internally. so I replaced the bulb with new, and the InSP2 message has vanished. Great! Wondering why, I checked its resistance, and it read 20 ohms, which means it is now more like a 6w bulb. I guess that is what the message was trying to tell me.
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General Car Chat / Re: Service due light cancellation
« on: 17 July 2020, 21:29:39 »
I have two Astra owners manual here, not dated, however first quoted is labelled TS 1612-B-08, second TS 1612-B-04.
I list below the functions in each manual.
Both depict the bulbs in the rear cluster. They describe bulb as follows:
with the single bulb to the left, numbered 5:
5 Fog tail bulb
Going around clockwise from 5,
1 Reversing light
2 Flasher, OR Turn Signal
3 Reversing light/brake light OR Tail light/brake light
4 Tail light OR reversing light
5 Fog tail light right hand side only. Bulb on the left can be used as a spare.
So it looks like bulb 3 should be 2 filament. Will check when the car is next here.
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I list below the functions in each manual.
Both depict the bulbs in the rear cluster. They describe bulb as follows:
with the single bulb to the left, numbered 5:
5 Fog tail bulb
Going around clockwise from 5,
1 Reversing light
2 Flasher, OR Turn Signal
3 Reversing light/brake light OR Tail light/brake light
4 Tail light OR reversing light
5 Fog tail light right hand side only. Bulb on the left can be used as a spare.
So it looks like bulb 3 should be 2 filament. Will check when the car is next here.
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General Car Chat / Re: Service due light cancellation
« on: 17 July 2020, 19:51:46 »Terry Paget - what DG is saying is that when it detects a bulb failure, it uses one of the other bulbs in that cluster to compensate. So you will still see a tail light (or whatever is blown)./highlight]Thanks, TB. I understand that. But there only three bulbs available in the red section - rear 5w light, brake light 21w and 21w foggy light. I suppose the brake light and the foggy light are interchageable, but yesterday I checked all the rear bulbs for continuity and all were fine.
Sure systems often use twin filament bulbs, so check the handbook and ensure the correct bulb types are fitted
I cannot think of any other pairs of interchangeable bulbs.
The 2004-2008 Haynes manual expects stop/tail bulbs to be 5/21w twin. The 2009-2013 manual expects separate bulbs. This car is a 2006 model wih single filament bulbs. I will investigate further.
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General Car Chat / Re: Service due light cancellation
« on: 17 July 2020, 17:33:59 »
Ben was here this afternoon. As he left I was able to check, with engine running and headlights on, brake lights - both sides worked; and bright rear red lights - offside only worked. This may be normal, but many cars have lights on both sides. The Vectra only has one.
It seems unnecessarily discrete to advise the driver of a failed bulb with a brief small display of InSP2. I have never seen any other message on any Astra or Vectra. Senators and Omegas had unambiguous warning lights, and some Omegas verbal messages.
I understood that these cars detect bulb failure when a 'reed relay' finds the current going to a pair of matching bulbs differs significantly, so if both bulbs fail no warning is displayed. This particular Astra is in Design spec, with a higly informative display board.
It seems unnecessarily discrete to advise the driver of a failed bulb with a brief small display of InSP2. I have never seen any other message on any Astra or Vectra. Senators and Omegas had unambiguous warning lights, and some Omegas verbal messages.
I understood that these cars detect bulb failure when a 'reed relay' finds the current going to a pair of matching bulbs differs significantly, so if both bulbs fail no warning is displayed. This particular Astra is in Design spec, with a higly informative display board.