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General Car Chat / TB's buggered motor
« on: 12 July 2023, 16:07:01 »
P006A.  DTC snapshot data shows very low boost pressure, suspect a loss of boost pressure.

Sent the DTC snapshot data and some photos to that DTM geezer, and he concurs that one of the intake manifolds has split being the most likely cause.  Cheap, crap, plastic shite that plagues this engine.  Still, to be expected when it was a JV between the yanks and the French ;D

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General Discussion Area / OOF next few days....
« on: 23 June 2023, 08:32:27 »
....might be subject to lots of small disconnections,, as I need to mess around with the network, which involves unplugging stuff and many a router restart.  Any outages are liable to be less than 5 mins, but there will be *lots* of them I suspect.

Apologies up front.

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General Car Chat / The future....
« on: 24 May 2023, 13:55:47 »
Those useless knobjockeys at Enterprise car rental have given my colleague a milk float ;D

It supposed to do 150 miles between charges, but he didn't make it beyond Oxford Services before playing chicken, only to find that the only unused, non Tesla charging point was out of order, so had to wait for somebody to finish before he could start charging.

So he arrives in Londonium nearly 5 hours after setting out, on what should be a sub 3 hour drive, and very late for a meeting with a support engineer.   Sorts the system out, drives about 2km to the next site, to do the same.  None of these sites have nearby charging points.

So now he's just called me, driving fully clenched, at very economical speeds, praying he'll make Beaconsfield services.  If he does make it, he'll have the joy of having to recharge again before Birmingham, and then recharge again before handing it back to Enterprise.

Apparently, this is the future we want ;D

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General Discussion Area / UK TV
« on: 29 April 2023, 09:04:49 »
Its all Nick W's fault, he's started me on a rant.

But Freeview TV. Christ.  Must be 100 channels, and never anything to watch.

If it's not celebrity tits out, it's stupid reality police chasing people, or ambulance documentaries.  Or Knobeneders.

Does anybody actually watch any of this drivel?

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General Discussion Area / 250m pages served
« on: 14 April 2023, 11:42:18 »
Blimey.  Since we've been using SMF as our forum software, its served up 250m pages :o

https://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?action=stats


This doesn't include 2006 to 2011, when we were using YaBB as our forum software.

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General Car Chat / Thanks, Mr Chrisgixer!
« on: 10 April 2023, 09:08:35 »
I got in a bit of a mess doing rear pads yesterday.  I followed the process to put the handbrake in the service position not using the diags tool, which going by the noises, seemed to retract the handbrake, but no messages that it had actually done it.

Tooke the pads out, but couldn't push or wind the piston in, so got the diags tool out to use that to put handbrake into service position.  Unfortunately, just turning the ignition on was enough to cause the handbrake to come on, popping the piston out of the caliper in the process.

Fortunately that nice ex-member Gixer popped over to lend a hand at this point to see what could be done.

4 hrs later, we had managed to get 70 ball bearings and 10 springs back in to the handbrake actuator, and rebuilt that.  Tidied the caliper enough so it is short term usable (it's had water ingress and corroded badly, so needs refurb, looks like it had been binding as well (probably just replace it TBH)), and got it back together.  Car is movable now, and probably fine for short journeys, as I imagine we'll be hard pressed to get another caliper by next weekend, given the short week.  Need to give it a quick test drive.

Had a very quick look (it was not far off getting dark at this point) at other caliper on the other side, that looks badly corroded, but might be serviceable, half tempted to get a caliper for that side as well.


I'd like to thank chrisgixer for popping over yesterday to lend a hand, as it had seemed like a completely lost cause at one point when bearings and springs flew everywhere.

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General Discussion Area / That sonic boom yesterday....
« on: 05 March 2023, 10:45:56 »
....sounded and felt familiar, so the first thing I did was check the garage ;D

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General Discussion Area / Outage today
« on: 18 February 2023, 09:23:53 »
Short notice, but we'll have an outage this morning as we move out databases to newer versions of Linux.

If time allows, I might even move the webserver over to it's planned replacement.

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General Car Chat / Bending a rod
« on: 09 January 2023, 10:56:05 »
Got a piece of steel rod, probably about 4mm (maybe 5mm, I should measure it ;D), with a 90 degree bend in it.

I need the bend to go the other way (ie, 180 degrees from where it currently goes), am I best off trying to bend on the current bend, or by twisting the rod before the bend?

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General Discussion Area / Well done all
« on: 04 January 2023, 11:08:37 »
I suspect later today, OOF will have had it's 2 millionth post :)

Well done all :y

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General Discussion Area / Sack of shite
« on: 20 December 2022, 15:23:02 »
Apologies, the OOF database is running like treacle, due to an overheating issue.

Currently moving the VM to another host, so I can get the dust out of the current one, but the migration is also running like shite :(

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General Discussion Area / Good ol' Chiltern Railways...
« on: 19 December 2022, 15:15:04 »
I love 'em.

No trains north of Banburyshire until 9th Jan, due to industrial action.  Means I can't do into the oriface for a month.  What a shame ;D

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General Car Chat / Tube for vacuuming oil
« on: 08 December 2022, 09:21:40 »
I'm after a piece of semi rigid tubing to poke down the dipstick tube to suck oil out (that's a separate debate, best left to another day).  Do they have a specific name for me to search on, or can anyone recommend anything suitable.

The dipstick tube, like most, has a bend in it, so needs to be flexible.  The clear tubes I got with the vacuum pump and from Ezibleeds and from bits of old screen wash tubing I had are all a bit too flexible, so hard to get as much oil out as possible.


This hasn't been an issue on the Big Black Pussy, as the engine was designed to be vac'd, so already has a tube fitted (in place of dipstick), but on Little Nell, that has a real, proper dippy.

Any pointers greatly appreciated :y

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General Discussion Area / My school never had this much spare money
« on: 08 November 2022, 17:51:39 »
To put on this sort of thing....

https://youtu.be/zfJmx41jwB4

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General Discussion Area / Varche Lane
« on: 24 September 2022, 13:54:32 »
Whilst cruising around Chalfont St Giles this morning, I came across Varche Lane.

So, now whenever I think of a long standing, regular member here of the same name, I will be reminded of the Chalfonts....

:P

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