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Omega General Help / Re: Damaged 3.2 Engine
« on: 04 April 2017, 11:32:23 »
Only worth buying if you have an actual use for it. The cheap fix will entail some valves, head gasket set, timing belt, several hours work, and maybe new valve guides. Or another pair of heads.


The inlet manifolds etc aren't a wear part, although the exhausts are worth something.


Don't forget, it's heavy and takes a lot of space.


So I don't think it's worth buying.

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General Car Chat / Re: This Week in Wheeler's Workshop
« on: 02 April 2017, 20:52:48 »
M24x1.5 dies start at about £60, and would need a big die holder and a lot of effort to turn it.
That was single point threaded in the lathe.

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General Car Chat / Re: This Week in Wheeler's Workshop
« on: 02 April 2017, 18:56:23 »
This week's jobs:


MGF wheel bearing:





That was the easy bit; it took 8 tons of pressure to push the hub out :o


And I made this blanking plug for the auxiliary fuel tank hose on a Yak18, as we can't buy them:



It's M24x1.5, cut on a piece of 1" hex bar. That's the first thread I've done just by the numbers, without being able to try the mating part, hopefully it will work

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Estate aerial mount
« on: 02 April 2017, 17:55:17 »
You can access the aerial by removing the trim around the boot opening, and pulling the headlining down a bit.


Buy a new base gasket for the aerial, an ordinary(non GPS) one is about a fiver: LINK

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General Car Chat / Re: What the Omega could have become
« on: 02 April 2017, 12:47:19 »
Holdens are basically Daewoo's these days.  ;)

Nice cars though and we all know that Uncle STEMO is a fan of Daewoo Motors!  :y
Almost... They've the Astra, Corsa and... Insignia :D

Like us that's all they'll have as well in future!  I expect the days of big RWD motors are numbered down under.  ;)


Both Ford and GM are stopping production of Australian vehicles. They will be getting the same ranges as the rest of the world. Considering how small the market is, it is surprising that they lasted this long.

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Rear parcel shelf blind
« on: 01 April 2017, 11:30:08 »
Don't see why they would be going up, when hardly anyone wants them. I have chucked a few boot loads of Omega parts in a skip because I couldn't give them away.

The thing is there is still enough of us who cherish our Omega's to make holding and selling of parts still a lucrative business.  The main dealers only have a few parts left, and they have gone up in price considerably over the last 3 years.  Now the parts that become available via the breakers, and there are pages and pages of them on the internet, are worth far more than they were worth when the main dealers had plentiful stocks of new ex-factory items. So the market forces of supply and demand rule and mean that if you have any Omega parts they will be worth a good, reasonable price . :y


That's what eventually happens, but we're a long way from it. It is niche sites like this that make it look more viable than it really is.


These cars are still common, but even a good one isn't worth enough to be desirable. They don't suffer from major mechanical failures(the low price of a good automatic gearbox is a fine indicator - getting one for a similar age BMW or Mercedes was always costly because they were in demand), and all of the service/maintenance parts(filters, plugs, belts, water pumps, brakes etc) plus the long term wear parts(shocks, springs, bushes, radiators, gaskets, bearings)are readily available new at sensible prices. Garages won't buy these parts used, and it's pretty daft to do so for DIY  work.


That only leaves trim, bolt on panels, the odd electrical part and the few upgrades that only apply to low spec cars for people breaking cars. This is a small market, with small returns even if you have the space and willingness to store a load of stuff long term.


The prices of used parts won't increase until they and the cars that require them are both rare and expensive; which is unlikely to ever happen - just look at the low value of an early Senator.

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General Car Chat / Re: If you purchased a brand new motor....
« on: 31 March 2017, 19:38:38 »
I had the dubious honour of owning the 1100, maxi and princess. I was a glutton for punishment  :(

You poor soul.  I would have jumped off a bridge! ;D ;D ;D

I reckoned I was soooo lucky to be driving around in Mk3/4 &5 Ford Cortina's ;D ;D ;D ;D ;)

Th Mk5 Cortina was more a Mk4A really. Very few differences.


A roof that's about 30mm higher is quite a big difference! Although the estates were the same.

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General Car Chat / Re: If you purchased a brand new motor....
« on: 31 March 2017, 18:08:11 »
http://www.ado16.info/feamormk1.shtml

So you spend £5000 in 1964 ( the cost of 2 houses)  and end up with rear lights from a poxy Austin 1100.  :-\

I seem to remember a sports car in the distant past that had the rear round light housings of a Mk1 Cortina saloon. :D :D


TVR Vixen.

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General Car Chat / Re: If you purchased a brand new motor....
« on: 31 March 2017, 16:53:37 »
http://www.ado16.info/feamormk1.shtml

So you spend £5000 in 1964 ( the cost of 2 houses)  and end up with rear lights from a poxy Austin 1100.  :-\


No different to Bristol using Superminx taillights, or Hillman Hunter ones on an Aston Martin - both of which dramatically increase the price of usable ones.
Plenty of posh cars use generic Lucas lamps, look at the back of a Cobra.

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Omega General Help / Re: Engine swap
« on: 28 March 2017, 20:07:31 »
Sounds like a perfect recipient for an LET swap to me.

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General Car Chat / Re: Worst day in the garage for a while
« on: 28 March 2017, 20:05:16 »
Doing a clutch change on a Capri on my own, in the street in 40 minutes. Then the bad bit: as I tightened the last prop bolt, it rolled down the ramps and pinned me to the floor. I counted myself lucky to get away with a sprained wrist and shoulder. This is one reason why I prefer to use axle stands!

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General Car Chat / Re: Bending brake pipes ?
« on: 28 March 2017, 18:50:44 »
I  only make fuel lines from 8mm nylon pipe, joining them with 8mm bore hose and jubilee clips. If you use a large overlap, there isn't a problem, even with 60psi of fuel pressure.

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General Car Chat / Re: Bending brake pipes ?
« on: 28 March 2017, 18:32:29 »
The Sykes tools are excellent if you can afford them. Or steal them, which is what happened to mine >:(


I replaced it with Automec flaring tool and this bending tool. While bending kunifer brake pipe isn't difficult by hand, that shitty looking tool will easily put a tight 180degree bend right next to a fitting. It makes your pipe work look much better!


Buy a cheap rotating small pipe-cutter from B&Q for a fiver; a deburring tool is nice to have, but a fine file is plenty good enough for DIY work.

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Omega General Help / Re: Smell of coolant inside the car
« on: 27 March 2017, 22:50:07 »
But what will it cost after Wednesday then  ;D


It will still be 16Euros. Which will be about £324568squillion, or 12 potatoes ;D

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Omega General Help / Re: Smell of coolant inside the car
« on: 27 March 2017, 22:03:28 »
Could be the rubber seals on the pipes to the matrix from the bulk head weeping,although once you have gone that far into the dissection is almost just worth fitting a new matrix is about £35,but the O rings are an odd size and are almost VX only and stupid price for a bit of rubber.



I've got one to fit that was 16Euros.

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