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General Discussion Area / Re: Novaxx Djokovic

« on: 16 January 2022, 10:43:23 »

Can't help wondering what would happened if, for example His majesty Prince Andrew the rapist kame to Australia unther the same conditions...
Nadal didn't follow post Covid quarantine protocole, 7 or 8 other players haven't been vaccinated also. But they are not a Serbian savage. Democracy at its finest.

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

« on: 15 December 2021, 16:04:51 »

I changed glow plugs on my 2.5DTI, and it wasn't easy, took me 3 hours. Poor car was starting on one glow plug working correctly. One was separated in two pieces, fortunately above screwing point.
Now parking sensors decided to die for some reason   

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

« on: 13 December 2021, 16:54:17 »

You are correct. Manifold was down couple months ago when HPFP decided to die.
Honestly, Bmw could make it simpler. I remember changing those on 2.3td Frontera, and it could be done on parking lot with one eye and one hand.

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

« on: 12 December 2021, 21:35:20 »

Finally resolved diesel leak on 2.5 DTI.
Turns out that piece of rubber hose that goes from fuel filter to HPFP started to disintegrate. I couldn't find new peace so I had to fabricate it, and it works. I cleaned EGR while I was there, now I have to resolve cold start problem in the morning. Glow plugs, relay or both probably..

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General Discussion Area / Re: Abu Dhabi F1 wont contain spoilers

« on: 12 December 2021, 21:29:44 »

I don't like the Dutch, but all things considered he deserved the title this year. HAM deserved to win today, but as he had luck on his side all these years, today he run out of it. Massi is a joke, and all that ''let's make F1 interesting'' crap could be done a lot better. But that's sport these days.
It's the same in all other sports. For example, look at Basketball. They make World championship qualifying in such way that teams can't use their NBA or Euro league players. So teams like Serbia are struggling to qualify.
All things aside, Checo has done some seriously god driving today. I hope next season Ferrari or McLaren could do better. Sainz had solid season, in competitive car he could be title contender...

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Omega Gallery / Re: Just Bought an Elite

« on: 17 November 2021, 07:42:47 »

Nice, very nice! 

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General Discussion Area / Re: US Grand Prix (possible spoiler)...

« on: 16 November 2021, 07:41:48 »

Cleanest driver?
I understand Hamilton is one of yours but c'mon, some objectivity??
I guess you was sleeping during first couple of rounds at Silverstone, for example..
Don't get me wrong, Max is what he is, but saying things like that is just childish.
Hamilton has got much more then he's talent or working ethics could get him in some other teams, such as Mclaren with MIka, or Ferrari with Nikki or Shumaher.
Not to mention Senna. Thay all had there ''dirty'' plays in their times, but that' racing. It is not valleybal.
Most of Hamiltons wins are based on having the fastest car, and just being lucky. We could see that last year. I'm sad that Bottas has no self respect to show that many of the current drivers could have ruffly the same results in that Mercedes.
I really don't like Max, I am a Ferrari fan, but in this case, I hope he'll get the title, cause Lewis got much more than he deserved.
As for the politics part, it's all about the money. Best possible way to see who is the best is to make all cars the same, but we all know that will never happen...

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Omega Gallery / Re: Omega2.5 DTI project

« on: 17 October 2021, 15:48:29 »

Couple of fresh pictures:





She runs and drives fine, I put new winter Hankook tyres, they are suprisingly quiet, but i noticed an oil leak somewhere between engine and gearbox. I suspect on turbo. Here in Serbia situation with qualified mechanics is terrible. Next on schedule is to return her to painter to fix some of he's messes, and than to find someone to deal with f**k ups of my ex mechanic... 

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Omega Gallery / Re: Omega2.5 DTI project

« on: 08 October 2021, 14:16:33 »

Gremlin found. My (ex) mechanic forgot to reconect intercooler hose. Smoke is allmost gone and she goes almost normal. I guess I need to drive it around a bit after all that sitting. I will put some fuel additive so we'll see what happens.

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Omega Gallery / Re: Omega2.5 DTI project

« on: 07 October 2021, 18:27:40 »

Poor bi*ch is on the road again.


I took her back today afternoon after turbo reassembling. I took her for a ride, she stopped smoking but now there is another problem.
Turns out that white smoke was caused by endless cranking while trying to detect the first problem ( HPFP ). My (ex) mechanic removed turbo for no reason, suspecting he caused white smoke. During testing they managed to do something with it. He confessed that turbo service didn't assembly turbo back as it should, they did the work again and now i suffer from black smoke when I floor it. Also she runs like 2.0 DTI, especially in mid range.
Scratches are 80% sorted with polishing but still visible. She is going back to painter anyway so that doesn't bother me that much.
I'll try to drive her some more to see is this black smoke maybe caused by sitting for 3 months, bit i doubt..

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Omega Gallery / Re: Omega2.5 DTI project

« on: 05 September 2021, 21:35:32 »

I don't understand it ether. Car needs to go back to painter fore some minor fixes anyway so i hope he'll be able to fix that. Main problem is that smoke, I'm planing a road trip next weekend so I really hope that turbo rebuild will fix that.

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Omega Gallery / Re: Omega2.5 DTI project

« on: 04 September 2021, 07:52:01 »

Update:
After more than a month, we managed to start that damn bmw engine. It turns out that High pressure fuel pump decided to die. I had a spare one from the donor car, but that's not the end of troubles.
Car starts fine, idles fine, revs fine, but after one minute of idling it starts to blow out lots and lots of white smoke.
Repair guy suspects on turbo, I lost all my will to deal with this,  and to put a cherry on top someone scratched entire bonnet and driver door while car was sitting in front of the repair shop...

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Omega Gallery / Re: Omega2.5 DTI project

« on: 14 August 2021, 13:06:43 »

Fuel is freshly added two weeks ago, she ran on it around 100 miles, tank is 1/3 full at this moment, but it did cross my mind to change the fuel anyway.
If it doesn't solve the problem, I could use that fuel in T-reg.
When I was checking lift pump I cleaned fuel filter, Pump is working normally. But I did notice that return fuel hose is not connected to anything, and I can't remember how is it supposed to be connected

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Omega Gallery / Re: Omega2.5 DTI project

« on: 14 August 2021, 12:15:53 »

Some (not so) good news about Omega.
In past weeks I'we changed oil, filters, both V belts, rollers, tensioners, front right engine mount, front arms, and faulty Turbo hose clamp.
I still feel some vibrations caused probably by small rear mounts under the transmission.

Couple days ago, while sitting on the traffic light, car suddenly staled, and I couldn't start it again. Towed her back, changed everything possible from donor car, cranck sensor, cam sensor, both fuel pumps, ECU, checked fuel lines, checked if there is pressure on fuel rail, there are no faults on "My Naff Code Reader", check engine doesn't light. I looked if the small chain isn't snapped, and everything looks ok.
She cranks normally but no start.
I lost ideas ( and energy) to figure  out what could be the problem . Guess I'll wait my repair guy to come back from holliday 

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Newbie Welcome Area / Re: Kinda noob 3.2 Elite owner

« on: 10 August 2021, 07:05:55 »

Nice one!
Full spec as I can see?
That ugly LPG filler cap could been done better