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Omega General Help / Re: Removing drop arm from steering box

« on: 08 October 2017, 21:17:47 »

You're making this out to be much harder than it is.


Use Plan A, but get your son to do the hitting. It really isn't difficult. You do know that you're striking the socket, and NOT trying to knock the pin out?


A gas torch won't apply enough heat to anything useful. Cutting it apart is just butchery, and takes longer than breaking the balljoint with two hammers.

I am placing the sledge hammer behind the tapered hole in the drop arm while son Ben bashes from the other side, so that the tapered hole in the arm deforms and releases the pin, which drops out, right? I have done it before, in fact it's the forum recommended method for the idler arm. Plan A is my favourite, but I suspect mandula tried that first and it failed.

AAAAH Now I understand what he means. Smash the hole from both sides with a hammer, or hold one hammer on the other side. Used that before, kinda hard to do if you are working on ground but easy on a lift.

I do all of my work in the street. And I've not used any other method for years, including changing suspension arms on 40 year old cars that had never been apart before. The only reason not to use this method is if the components are made of aluminium.

Can you really get enough force on it alone? Or you have an extra set of hands in your garage waiting all the time? 

I assume you use two of these or something similar? Ofcourse with flat heads, not round...

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Omega General Help / Re: Removing drop arm from steering box

« on: 08 October 2017, 20:53:46 »

You're making this out to be much harder than it is.


Use Plan A, but get your son to do the hitting. It really isn't difficult. You do know that you're striking the socket, and NOT trying to knock the pin out?


A gas torch won't apply enough heat to anything useful. Cutting it apart is just butchery, and takes longer than breaking the balljoint with two hammers.

I am placing the sledge hammer behind the tapered hole in the drop arm while son Ben bashes from the other side, so that the tapered hole in the arm deforms and releases the pin, which drops out, right? I have done it before, in fact it's the forum recommended method for the idler arm. Plan A is my favourite, but I suspect mandula tried that first and it failed.

AAAAH Now I understand what he means. Smash the hole from both sides with a hammer, or hold one hammer on the other side. Used that before, kinda hard to do if you are working on ground but easy on a lift.

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 08 October 2017, 19:51:02 »

Just sat inside another Omega today, Estate though but still. Xenon from factory, self leveling suspension, black recaro leather seats and even those plastic wooden trims were black in color! Bose stereo with telephone and who knows what else.
It only has first and reverse on the tranny so went to see if my laptop would be of any use trying to see what actually works and what doesn't.

I WANT ONE 

Something like these:

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Omega General Help / Re: Removing drop arm from steering box

« on: 08 October 2017, 19:46:10 »

You're making this out to be much harder than it is.


Use Plan A, but get your son to do the hitting. It really isn't difficult. You do know that you're striking the socket, and NOT trying to knock the pin out?


A gas torch won't apply enough heat to anything useful. Cutting it apart is just butchery, and takes longer than breaking the balljoint with two hammers.

HALP ME UNDERSTAND!! How do you break them apart with 2 hammers 
I feel so silly and confused

I mean the fork tool has worked for me in every single situation with a few hits on the end when nothing else has but I'm still very curious how you do it with 2 hammers.

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Omega General Help / Re: Removing drop arm from steering box

« on: 08 October 2017, 17:51:47 »

I'm sure that you already know this, but the larger hammer goes behind the hoint and whack it with the smaller one.
Just like the old joke about "bricking the camel", don't get your thumbs caught in the middle! 

Ron.

Can you paint a picture? I dont seem to understand how you mean

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Omega General Help / Re: Removing drop arm from steering box

« on: 08 October 2017, 16:10:12 »

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61i7YSfl0aL._SY355_.jpg

? Best tool ever.

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Omega General Help / Re: Upgrading to Xenon

« on: 07 October 2017, 14:10:41 »

I have put in LED's in my Omega. Both for high beam and low beam. It is easier than to convert to HID/Xenon.

They give even whiter lights than Xenon and are very strong.

Swedish inspection don't like them because they give too sharp edges on the light pattern. So I have to change the bulbs for the inspection to normal H7 & H1.

https://www.diodhuset.se/en/led-xenon-lights-for-cars/high-and-dipped-beam/led/led-kit

LEDs are apparently were umm whats the word here really.. like they  need to be EXACTLY at the position they should be or the light is all over the place. Like some cheap chinese LED bulbs you need to shim to get the depth right so you see further than your bonnet.
Those you linked seem pretty expensive so they must be good?

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Omega General Help / Re: Upgrading to Xenon

« on: 07 October 2017, 13:09:42 »

Bought myself a pair of some +130% Philips bulbs for the high beams and some 110% ones for the low beams.

Will see tonight if there is a meaningful difference. Also gave the headlights a quick polish aswell, was a bit smudgy, clear as new now.

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Omega General Help / Re: Upgrading to Xenon

« on: 07 October 2017, 06:18:35 »

The hids only blind oncoming drivers if they are not in the projector lenses, the beam cut off in the projector is perfectly straight, with the young boys that put hids in reflector headlights causes the problem

The light emmited from a gas discharge and a halogen lamp is very different, not talking about the brightness.

Arent the newer kind Omega headlights projector type? Only the first few years had reflector?

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Omega General Help / Re: Upgrading to Xenon

« on: 06 October 2017, 15:33:55 »

Let's remember that we are basing comments on U.K. Regulations. The OP is in Finland so would need to check local laws/regulations 

IMHO regulations are bye-the-bye, if not fitted with active self levelling and washers then oncoming drivers WILL be blinded/dazzled, which is both selfish and dangerous.

But why would the blind more than normal lights? There are so many "illegal" cars here on the road with these HID kits and I dont feel like they are blinding me at all atleast.

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Omega General Help / Re: Mintex

« on: 06 October 2017, 08:45:40 »

Angle grinder and make a shallow vertical cut in the middle of the pad.

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Omega General Help / Upgrading to Xenon

« on: 05 October 2017, 11:05:12 »

Looking to upgrade the headlights on my Omega, when was the first year that Xenon was available? What would I need other than the headlight units themselves to do this conversion?
Or just go with some cheap chinese xenon kit?

Or just go with some +120% bulbs? Are they actually good? I have never tried any myself as they are rather expensive in here atleast.

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Omega General Help / Re: Grill differences 1999-2003

« on: 03 October 2017, 20:33:02 »

Irmscher retangles are wider than on Steinmetz?

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Omega General Help / Re: Small idle issue after plug change

« on: 02 October 2017, 22:12:33 »

Perhaps I should get these.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/6x-Vauxhall-Omega-3-2-V6-Genuine-Bosch-Super-Plus-Spark-Plugs-/361609125952?fits=Model%3AOmega&hash=item5431956040:g:BRgAAOSw4A5Yy4TK

Is that price really for 6 plugs?   
In Finland we probably have to pay that much for a single plug...

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Sodding alarm

« on: 02 October 2017, 20:05:23 »

Sodding alarm!

Had this happen for the first time, all windows closed etc and bam 8am alarm goes off out of thin air.