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Omega General Help / Re: Car won’t start
« on: 05 April 2020, 17:04:06 »
He didn't say it did or didn't crank ::)

'car won't start' is a pretty broad description...

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https://youtu.be/ja7Ax45DGT8

Imagination and Weetabix... Get it done ;)

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From the appropriate fuse in the rear SAM via the reversing light switch on the gearbox ;)

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Omega General Help / Re: Car won’t start
« on: 05 April 2020, 16:33:11 »
Does it crank?

Saloon/Estate?

How much fuel?

Fuel pump priming?

What does it do in neutral?
?

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Ring spanner. Also you're pulling it UP from the front of the engine so will be lifting against the weight of the engine, so no worries on leverage.

Can't remember if you need to shift the alternator to remove the bolt... May help access shifting it :y

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Or a suitable ring spanner :y

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General Discussion Area / Re: Dead Person
« on: 05 April 2020, 14:15:28 »
Food for the kitties...

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Omega General Help / Re: Car won’t start
« on: 05 April 2020, 14:14:12 »
Does it crank?

Saloon/Estate?

How much fuel?

Fuel pump priming?

What does it do in neutral?

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Omega General Help / Re: Wishbones
« on: 05 April 2020, 12:53:17 »
It seems to be hit & miss with them. If they have your order in stock they will send it out to you. If they don't, they will set about sourcing it from suppliers and that takes as long as it takes.
I waited over three weeks for a small order and they ignored all attempts to communicate until after it had been delivered.
Drop shipping is the new business model >:(  (I stopped using Allgerman for the same reason.)

Every twaaat and their dog seems to do that nowadays...

For example, I ordered six can of my favourite upholstery cleaner ten days ago. Order confirmed, get an email on the Friday confirming shipping with a delivery date of last Monday/Tuesday. Obviously it didn't turn up, so on Thursday I rang them... "still processing orders from 23rd March... Don't know if we have it in stock, so I will get it shipped here from our Sheffield depot. And will forward it on when it gets here."

I understand that places are short staffed and that delivery times are a bit off at the moment, but if you don't stock something, you shouldn't be allowed to advertise it.

So, today, I need to go to Halfords to buy it at 50% more just so that I can start to get stuff done ready for replacement bits to get the car running.

ATP are cheap, and it isn't unreasonable that this affects their service standards, but at least you know that you get what you pay for. And I would rather this than paying through the nose for shit/unhelpful service from franchises.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Labour leader
« on: 05 April 2020, 11:13:15 »
Starmer is a Trotskyite in a suit and a barrister. So a third rate Tony Blair. The Tories would have to get themselves into a hell of a mess before he could win an election.
Stranger things have happened though.
I take it his knighthood is ironic then...  ???

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General Discussion Area / Re: Corona virus Europe
« on: 05 April 2020, 11:12:24 »
Our local surgery is a bit better than that, you can actually get physical appointments, although the attached pharmacy gets a bit creative with medication selection, so if you're after a specific brand you have to badger them.

We have lived here twenty years, and for the last fifteen Mum has had a prescription. I think it might have been filled correctly three times in that time. The surgery doctors are pretty good, and they will support the consultants and respect her choices... Anything eye related and she goes to Moorfields in London, everything else St Richards in Chichester (partly because that's where the ambulance normally takes her ::)) but they do look after her.

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You need to free the dowel from the gearbox.

It's an interference fit on the block and a push fit on the gearbox  ;)

Starter for ten would be to heat the gearbox flange and use  grips to remove it.

Failing this, use a hacksaw and notch the flange into the dowel. Again should twist out with grips.

Plenty of plusgas as well.

Trying to remove the dowel from the block will be a hiding to nothing.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Just popped the telly box on...
« on: 04 April 2020, 19:42:44 »
There's been zero change to the recovered number, still 135 apparently  ???

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General Car Chat / Re: Anyone know about Astras?
« on: 04 April 2020, 19:41:11 »
Drop it and look into the pipe from both ends. If it's clogged, then it will be apparent both ends, if someone had dropped a rag into it, then it may have been removed prior to refitting the pipe in an 'itwasn'tme' stylee.

Which given the fact the pipe was disconnected already...

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General Car Chat / Re: Anyone know about Astras?
« on: 04 April 2020, 19:34:00 »
Back pressure could possibly damage the valves.

Pull the DPF and see what's blocking it ;)

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