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General Car Chat / Re: washer non return valve

« on: 16 May 2025, 17:26:09 »

Presumably Jaaag CBA to supply them.

I suspect it's because of the sh1te design of their headlamp washers and the fact that they don't bother as standard that he wants them.

Which reminds me...

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General Discussion Area / Re: Two firefighters lost

« on: 16 May 2025, 13:48:11 »

And, completely coincidentally, I am sure, where they were planning to build  a hotel were it not for the (listed) hangar building.

Now that it has cost lives I am sure I will be proved right or wrong one way or the other.. 

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Omega General Help / Re: Engine swap

« on: 16 May 2025, 07:08:37 »

It was definitely easier in the dry, and not being constantly distracted by Omegatoy destroying my door mechanism....

I don't know. LFF64 did an admirable job soaking up the rain for us.

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Omega General Help / Re: Omega Catera MV6 3.0 Iddle or oil pump Problem

« on: 16 May 2025, 07:06:03 »

That the light comes on when decelerating, was what I should have typed.

I did wonder about the level... although the pressure switch is on the front of the block so deceleration should have the opposite effect... Which leaves the pump from the three primary culprits.

It doesn't matter where the pressure switch is, the oil pressure is almost constant everywhere downstream of the pump, but the location of the oil pickup pipe in the sump, and any baffles, etc. might do.

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

« on: 15 May 2025, 17:58:11 »

Put an MOT on the roller skate at last.
..and right on cue, the nice weather has gone.

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Omega General Help / Re: Omega Catera MV6 3.0 Iddle or oil pump Problem

« on: 15 May 2025, 07:36:28 »

Hot engine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&si=S-LQuYNT4yzQ6apZ&v=jHf-5uTrRj4&feature=youtu.be&cbrd=1&ab_channel=Tomas
Cold start:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2d5CzxY--E&ab_channel=Tomas

Looks to me like the light is telling you the pressure is low but the gauge is behaving normally. I would follow Nick W's suggestion, get a workshop pressure gauge and actually measure the oil pressure before going too much further.

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

« on: 14 May 2025, 22:45:13 »

Finally got off my arse and started looking for a new (different) car. Going to see a V70 on Saturday.

Nice. Assuming it's a diesel, the 2.4 D5 is the one to go for. 

Don't need anything as powerful as that, Tigger. 2.0 D3 SE. 2014 with 140,000 miles on it, FSH, New MOT.

And manual, wouldn't trust an auto box with that many miles on it.

Power isn't the only concern. My brother had a 2.0 Volvo diesel of about that era and it was a dog. Kept diluting its own oil and eventually did the decent thing and committed harakiri by the side of the road in a big cloud of smoke, at about 70K miles IIRC. 

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Omega General Help / Re: Engine swap

« on: 14 May 2025, 07:27:45 »

Swapped the long, heavy TD engine before



I was younger back then.  Was that saga really 17 years ago

<shudder> There's something wrong with that picture. It's not raining and I can't see any re-purposed bits of garage door in play.

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Omega General Help / Re: Omega Catera MV6 3.0 Iddle or oil pump Problem

« on: 14 May 2025, 07:26:01 »

Might also be worth checking the oil pressure relief valve while you're at it, although I can't remember where they are on this engine.

Blocked oil pickup is definitely a possibility and worth eliminating.

Could just be a lazy oil pressure switch?

If the oil pressure picks up quickly at higher revs it's possibly not work worrying about if the above check out OK.

It's normal for some variants of the V6 to idle as low as 450-500 RPM from memory.

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General Car Chat / Re: Project anyone?

« on: 12 May 2025, 23:51:11 »

A brace of Bugs! 

I wonder if he'll throw the lawnmower in as well? 

Yes, then you'd at least get one desirable air cooled vehicle.

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General Discussion Area / Re: When will they learn?

« on: 12 May 2025, 19:43:52 »

Injections! 

You lot are turning into a bunch of bleeding heart, handwringing, liberal wet wipes! 

Bring back the chopping block! 

I'd suggest using the National Grid if it were reliable, but you don't want another substation going pop when it's only done half a job.

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Omega General Help / Re: V6 Timing was all going so well...

« on: 11 May 2025, 08:54:05 »

Popped the OS bank of plugs out as they're the easiest, ...

I'd take all the plugs out so you know the resistance isn't from compression, then see how easily it turns over.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Knob Trump!

« on: 07 May 2025, 19:07:00 »

Isn't it slightly ironic that with all the rubbish he spouts that he's called the site truth social?

.. and we all thought the ham shanks didn't get irony.

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?

« on: 07 May 2025, 19:03:11 »

My Samsung telly. Neo N95. It really is a complete crock of shite.

First world problems 

Indeed, and I'd normally just shrug my shoulders over it. But it really is a piece of shit.  Completely unresponsive for the first minute or 2 after turning on, not even volume, so late at night it wakes everyone up.  The apps are crap, which means every time I have to restart a stream on ITVX - like every ad break - I have to sit through the same ads again.  It constantly renames the input sources based on god knows what, and doesn't list them as HDMI1/2/3/4, but decides to call most of them PC, nor are they in order, so you have to keep trying each one in turn (bearing in mind they change their positions in the list as well).

I fikcin' hate the piece of shit.

I recognise the unresponsive bit. We've got a 32" 3 year old one on a shelf in the kitchen, I turn it on to watch the six o'clock news while I'm out there at teatime and it takes ages before the remote actually does anything.
I get round this by turning it on at five to. 
And.....I always remember to turn the volume down on the one in the living room before we go to bed. She gets up at 5:20 and I don't fancy being woken up at that time by breakfast tv at full volume.

.. and we're back to letting them "warm up" like we did in the valve days.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Knob Trump!

« on: 05 May 2025, 08:57:14 »

I agree although I think he’s a prick as well👍

I wish I could still find the meme I saw. Essentially, it was along the lines of:

Weatherspoon
Sports
Hogg
Vance.

Examples of things where just prefixing it with "JD" doesn't stop it being cr@p.