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Omega General Help / Re: Tracking and Camber adjustment
« on: 13 June 2016, 19:36:28 »


* What's first the tracking or the Camber adjustment

* Can I see the angles on the computer please before adjustment, can you explain what's what.

* Which side needs adjustment

* What bolts on the strut are you going to undo, top or bottom

* How are you going to do the bolts up? Haynes manual Stage 1/stage 2

*** I had to change a strut 6 months after an adjustment, and when I cam to undo the Strut bolts, they had not been done up properly. Enough to suggest that overtime the camber would move.*********

Any one know of the FREE CHECK garage before you decide to have the camber done - AREA M25 Junction 19 25mile Radius?


cheers for any suggestions welcome


Are you doing this because you've replaced wishbones? Or tie-rods and/or struts? Those require a much bigger adjustment, and will benefit from some basic setting up before you put the car on the machine.


Toe can be set to approximately parallel with a long straight-edge against the wheel's rim diameter and compared to the car's sill. This is surprisingly accurate.


Camber is measured directly off the wheel, but you do need some sort of apparatus to do it. That could be a plumb-bob, ruler and some maths, or a lot more sophisticated like this digital angle-gauge on a base:





I find that allows me to adjust the camber to 0.1degree with the car on its wheels. This is done by loosening both bolts, snugging the bottom one, and prying the wheel with a long lever until you get the required setting of 1o10" There is several degrees of adjustment doing it like this.




Omega alignment isn't difficult, but it does require care, attention to detail, and the realisation that the in the green specifications are much too loose.

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General Discussion Area / Re: The "Leave" campaign
« on: 13 June 2016, 14:57:42 »
Do people not think the fact that none of this is clear exposes the central flaw of brexit - that it simply hasn't been thought out.
Its like a shopping list of wishful thinking.


That is exactly what has persuaded me to settle on a reluctant and guarded Remain vote. All the Leave campaigners have published is a vague suggestion that it will be OK, with no idea of how that will be the case. Their continual implication that our immigration and economic problems will instantly improve is especially insulting.

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The other person is so you don't convince yourself that it will come in handy one day. The number of times this actually happens is tiny! .....

But you know that a soon as you bin it, you'll find a use for it within the week  ;)


Trust me, that happens so rarely it isn't an excuse for keeping stuff!


What actually happens is you spend 10 days trolling through piles of festering crap muttering I know I've got one somewhere to yourself. When you do find it, you discover it's worse than the one you're trying to replace. So, in desperation, you ring your favourite supplier who tells you that a brand new one is on the shelf and costs £17.49 including next-day delivery.


I've done this both personally and professionally, and if you're really serious about decluttering you can save a load of time, order a skip, and bin everything!

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General Discussion Area / Re: Steam loco
« on: 12 June 2016, 21:58:22 »
Young lad on 'The Chase' this week was asked: "What kind of vehicle is the flying scotsman, train, boat or plane?"
He went for plane so I sighed deeply and switched off.


Why should he know about a train that was removed from service 50 years ago? Should we all learn the names of all the P&O cross-channel ferries?

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Don't do this on your own, as all you'll end up doing is putting most of it back in a slightly tidier way.


Stuff that is damaged/incomplete/wornout(which is why you removed it) is clearly junk. Place in the back of the car ready for the tip.
Anything you cannot identify is junk.
Anything you don't have a known use for is junk.
Anything you know somebody else could use should be delivered to them immediately.
Anything that looks worth more than £50 goes on Ebay. If it doesn't sell, bin it.
Keeping irregular scraps of common sheet materials is a waste of space.


As soon as the car is full, or you run out of stuff, go straight to the tip.


The other person is so you don't convince yourself that it will come in handy one day. The number of times this actually happens is tiny!


The stuff you do decide to keep should be labelled and boxed with the date on it. This makes your next tidy up easier, as you can bin stuff without any remorse if you know that the last time you even looked at it was 5 years ago.

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Nick, sorry to argue with you, but as the battery feed goes to the starter via the alternator terminal and the car starts without issue (doesn't it?), it suggests that the wiring is sound - unless the person who fitted the alternator didn't tighten the connector adequately.
It's rare, but possible, for a new alternator to be dodgy.....

Ron.


This is why you diagnose with a meter, rather than just guess/hope.

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You're seeing battery voltage with the engine running, so you have an alternator fault. That might be the unit itself, or a connection.


Now you need a multimeter to decide what to do next.


I would check the voltage at the output stud of the alternator first; you're looking for about 14volts. If that's the case, then you need to check the wiring between the alternator and the battery. If it's only the same voltage as the battery then the alternator isn't working and it's time to have a whinge at the supplier.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-36498272

Drug dealer, endangering others lives, wasn't just a short high speed chase either. 2 years and eight months. Out in 1 year and 4 months?  Maybe I am just getting old.

What happens to the guys car? Who pays for the damage to the other vehicles?
Not sure for damage to other vehicles, probably get told to claim through there Insurance?

In serious Criminal Activity, theres a thing called Proceeds of Crime, where the Courts can impose additional payment of funds, loss of Assetts or face more sentencing after your initial sentence.

My 3.2 ExPlod (which was parked up on Private Property) got hit by a car that was being chased by the Police, He ended up smashing into a BT Telegraph Poll, bouncing off that through a Niebourghs Cast Iron Gate, out the wall the other side and ended up on top of my Omega, I got nothing as Plod said He was driving without His girlfriends permission, therefore He had no Insurance in place.  >:( >:(
Thought that MIB took care of claims like this?

And what do Tommy Lee Jones and Will smith have to do with it  ;D


We could tell you, but you wouldn't remember!

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General Car Chat / Re: Spotted
« on: 12 June 2016, 11:48:56 »
Drove to Daventry yesterday and back today, not a sausage, no Omegas either :D


I drove 1.5 miles to the cathedral this morning, and spotted a nice 3.2 estate I haven't seen before.

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My guess - the alarm on the 4x4 triggered each time the lorry braked.

I'd agree with that.  :y  The tilt sensor goes off with the rocking motion when the car is locked.


And it's annoying as hell when the alarm also goes off. You end up driving along with the car keys in your hand turning the damn thing off. Motorbike alarms are especially bad for that when you've got them in the back of a van.

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Omega General Help / Re: Wheel nut holder?
« on: 12 June 2016, 11:24:40 »
Cleaning out the boot of my estate to lend to Jonny, I found this strange item in the foam tool holder in the spare wheel. Could it be to hold wheel nuts while struggling to insert them into alloy wheels?



It's to pull the stainless steel cover off the locking wheelnut.

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General Discussion Area / Re: If we vote to stay....
« on: 11 June 2016, 14:10:32 »


Indeed.. and didn't we have a third party in the race once too? Whatever happened to them? Maybe I was imagining it. ;D


The third party is where disappointed centrist politicians go to die. That's why it changes its name every decade or so.

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Omega General Help / Re: Rear subframe rear bushings
« on: 11 June 2016, 10:40:26 »
Looks good to me. It shows what is achievable with some thought and simple techniques.

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Omega General Help / Re: Rear subframe rear bushings
« on: 10 June 2016, 19:02:45 »
Nice. Could you have machined the centre from one piece and saved a bunch of welding?


And I'm going to borrow your dimensions and apply them to the rough jig I modeled for casting urethane into an old mount



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General Discussion Area / Re: gtech
« on: 10 June 2016, 17:00:23 »
The only one I've tried was the windscreen protector, I think it was G3


Compared to the Rain-X that I've used for years: it's much fussier to apply; it doesn't work quite as well; an application lasts about six months rather than about a month; it costs much more.


So I only bought the one lot, that cost about £20 and gave about 18months use on one car. I've since gone back to Rain-X, which costs about £5, and lasts me about 2 years across 4 vehicles.


Although I like a clean car, I'm not into the obsessive polishing - sorry - detailing that seems to require 3 different unctions for each surface. Nor do I like the entire car dipped in a vat of lacquer look that the new polishes create.

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