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General Discussion Area / Re: It seems everyone hates everyone else in the UK these days.

« on: 29 June 2016, 21:38:12 »

The people in Larndon have always hated us northerners 

Actually you're far enough away, and irrelevant enough for us to be apathetic about you

Irrelevant? You're avin a giraaaffe. The votes from up here made you leave the EU. 

I think you'll find that was entirely due to the soon to be Emperor for Eternity Boris

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Omega General Help / Re: Steering wheel play

« on: 29 June 2016, 20:47:41 »

just to reiterate as my explanations are at best terrible  the movement is not turning.... its when I grab the wheel and push or pull on it i.e. towards the engine bay or pull towards the rear of the car.

Either the wheel is loose on the column, or the clamp at the base of the column is loose/damaged.

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General Discussion Area / Re: It seems everyone hates everyone else in the UK these days.

« on: 29 June 2016, 20:45:31 »

The people in Larndon have always hated us northerners 

Actually you're far enough away, and irrelevant enough for us to be apathetic about you

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General Discussion Area / Re: It seems everyone hates everyone else in the UK these days.

« on: 29 June 2016, 19:19:02 »

I've always hated everyone

Yes, it saves a lot of time and disappointment.

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General Discussion Area / Re: New Tory leader?

« on: 29 June 2016, 18:20:14 »

Boris will probably get it, assuming he doesn't bottle it at the last moment, some will say he's the right man for the job, others will probably argue he started this mess so now sort it out. 

Net result is the same, he becomes the next PM, and as such has a responsibility to ensure that he leads from the front and gets the job done and done right

Those are several new skills for him to learn on the job. Is it too much to expect that a prospective leader would have shown some of them already?

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Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted / Re: V6 header tank with sensor

« on: 29 June 2016, 17:09:10 »

Mine came from here although the price has gone up in the last couple of years. I'd spend the extra couple of quid and get a new cap too.

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General Discussion Area / Re: BL, BMC, MG-Rover; can someone give me a history overview?

« on: 28 June 2016, 19:55:33 »

........
So in summary, some Rovers were decent. Some just needed avoiding - Montegos, Meastros, Itals, Marinas, Allagros etc etc.

I'll have you know that I had over five years trouble free motoring in my MG Turbo.    Sold it to my brother-in-law who had another five years out of it. The only thing that let go was the front tyres when I hoofed it. 

......
Having never owned a rover were they properly shite cars.

My mate bought a MG Montego turbo for £200, more rust than car but bloody hell it could shift in a straight line if you could stop the front wheels from spinning 

I paid £100 for mine with 6months MOT. The seller couldn't understand why it overheated as soon as it hit boost; he'd changed the head gasket, used double hose clamps and hermetite everywhere but lost patience. I drove it around the corner, and got the AA to recover it home from Margate. After stripping it down, the bow in the cylinder head was visible without  a straight edge! I found a crashed one in a local breakers, and got the head for £25. Spent the same on a gasket, put it back together and tried it out. Fast, yes. Drivable, no. Due to the worn tyres(metric remember), knackered shocks, worn out bushes, saggy springs and knocking CV joints/wheel bearings, if you floored it 70mph in the middle lane of the motorway it took up all three as it accelerated past 120. There was a properly fast car lurking inside, but I couldn't afford to put it right(I stopped counting at £1000 in parts), and the council eventually took it away.


Personally, I thought the Montego was a pretty good car, it certainly compared well to a mk2 Cavalier or Sierra which were its competitors.

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General Discussion Area / Re: The 'Hindsight' EU Poll

« on: 28 June 2016, 15:48:51 »

Your poll should have had another category: We've had the referendum you demanded; now live with the result.

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Omega General Help / Re: Alternator service life

« on: 28 June 2016, 15:43:26 »

Indeed Nick. 

Me, now, I have replaced most of my doors, it's literally insane to spend time grinding out rust, welding new in filler, and a repsray, when a new door can be had for £25 or less, and swapped over in a lunchtime(ish) fast forward a few years and someone with a FC Victor would be faced with no other option than the very costly former.

You're right about older cars, used doors are rarely any good even if you can find them.
I've done several doors, and consider them to be one of the easier repairs.


With the steel, filler and primer, this 1972 Avenger door was an afternoon's work and cost about £10:

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Omega General Help / Re: geometry settings

« on: 28 June 2016, 15:30:48 »

Front end

Camber -1.10 / -1.15
Castor 5 degree's
Toe in  0 degree 05

Move the subframe to adjust castor(good luck actually persuading the garage to do this...)

Rear end

Thrust angle MUST BE ZERO

Fixed

Agreed, especially as many won't adjust the camber, which takes a couple of minutes per side with two spanners.

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Omega General Help / Re: Alternator service life

« on: 28 June 2016, 13:21:58 »

There is no predictable wear rate/MTBF figure for electronc parts, so no point in replacing the regulator "just in case" - a new one could just as easily fail sooner than your existing one, DBG - so no, don't fix it!

Ron.

You could quite legitimately say that of the bearings. We only hear of the ones that have failed, but how many cars get scrapped with an original untouched alternator? Or any other rotating part for that matter. As these cars age we're going to see more parts that used to be considered bulletproof failing due to wear that would previously have been thought of as unusual.

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General Discussion Area / Re: GULP.......!!!!!!

« on: 28 June 2016, 13:15:18 »

Should I be worried that the surgeon has just been in & drawn an arrow where he's operating?

Would you rather he guessed? Or relied on another doctor's handwriting?

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General Discussion Area / Re: BL, BMC, MG-Rover; can someone give me a history overview?

« on: 27 June 2016, 18:30:22 »

So in your opinions was the trade unions striking every two seconds not the main catalyst?

That was certainly an important factor, but the terrible management trying to run Austin, Morris, Triumph, MG then Rover and Jaguar as competitors within the same markets but with model ranges and factories deliberately designed to be incompatible(Maxi/Dolomite/Toledo/Marina/Allegro or the big Triumph/Rover/Jaguar for two examples) had to play a big part.

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General Car Chat / Re: big hole

« on: 27 June 2016, 17:16:44 »

There's only one way to deal with a rust hole. Cut it back to good unrusted metal(which always makes a much bigger hole) and weld in new.


Using rust converter on sheet metal is a waste of time and money once the rust has got a good hold.

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General Discussion Area / Re: The Labour Party

« on: 27 June 2016, 14:00:50 »

And politicians wonder why nobody trusts them!


Cameron won a general election by promising a referendum that was bound to split his party no matter what the result. It makes you wonder what he and his advisors were smoking when they came up with that as a plan. The Conservatives are now stuck with a damaging leadership election instead of getting on with the real job of making the referendum result work.


The resurgence of a traditional right wing Conservative party unsurprisingly made Labour swing to the left, and they elected a poster boy leader. Their lowkey Remain campaign actually turned out to be lazy and complacent, and now they're emulating the other party with similarly damaging internal problems.


Neither party has a plan, and so they're concentrating on things they know how to do, but that are utterly useless for what we elected them to do and pay them for.


The electorate hasn't helped; a 75% turnout and a very close result is a pretty poor showing and the whining about how it isn't fair or democratic(which are not the same thing!) does us no credit whatsoever. It seems Churchill was right(The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter); there was a grandmother on the radio this morning whose reason to  Leave was I don't understand the issues, so I voted Leave because I like Boris, and it's what my father would have wanted