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General Car Chat / Re: Clean Bill Of Health

« on: 13 November 2020, 19:09:51 »

Well done Andrew    good news that ,  theres been a few up for test recently on here , mostly with an excellent result. 

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Omega General Help / Re: Glove box Replacement question

« on: 04 November 2020, 18:21:39 »

Thanks Gents . . .will look at the guide .     need a Grey one 

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Omega General Help / Glove box Replacement question

« on: 04 November 2020, 05:06:51 »

Hi all
            had some scrote get into my Omega a while ago and forced open the glove box.  The lid/door itself is damaged where it locks at either end after being forced open.  Can just the lid/door be replaced or does the glove box come as one complete assembly.  TIA       Al

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Omega General Help / Re: Rear wheel bearing special tool Hire/loan

« on: 02 November 2020, 17:01:28 »

I've just seen your message.


Will phone you soon

Nick is coming to the rescue      again OOF at its best   

That'll cost you a curry

See the new post in "Gen car chat " Re  Nick W

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General Car Chat / Big Thank You to Nick W

« on: 02 November 2020, 16:57:13 »

Once again the "Man from Kent"  has excelled. He came over to 'Saffend  today to do my rear wheel bearing .
What a pig of a job to do they are 
But as usual Nick just got on  with it , ignoring several head bumps and some blood letting from his finger 
Can't thank you enough Nick , and sorry it took longer than you thought . 
Top Oofer is Nick  and once again Oof at its best with member assistance .
We had a nice bit of grub in cafe afterwards to sweeten things a bit 

If we ever get another curry night  . .  .I owe you one Nick

Regards , a very grateful  Al       

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Omega General Help / Re: Rear wheel bearing special tool Hire/loan

« on: 02 November 2020, 08:48:04 »

I've just seen your message.


Will phone you soon

Nick is coming to the rescue      again OOF at its best   

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Omega General Help / Re: Rear wheel bearing special tool Hire/loan

« on: 01 November 2020, 10:36:01 »

I've just seen your message.


Will phone you soon

Thanks mate  . . .appriciate it   

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Omega General Help / Rear wheel bearing special tool Hire/loan

« on: 01 November 2020, 10:05:03 »

Would any of you fine Gents or Ladies   know anywhere that I could hire /loan  / beg / steal or borrow the special tool kit for doing the rear wheel bearing on the Omega.

I have started to do the job , but it looks like using the proper special  tool set is the only way to go .

I seem to recall that one of the Oofers had one and was offering it for "Hire" on his signature at the end of  their posts. I may be wrong here as memory is not as good as it was 

TIA for any help on this     Regards, Al

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Omega General Help / Re: Rear wheel bearing estate /saloon . . .Same ?

« on: 31 October 2020, 10:51:23 »

I use:


a basic wheel bearing set for FWD cars to remove and fit the bearing
a slightly modified(I filed one of the slots to fit) Mini flywheel puller to remove the drive flange. A generic 2 or 3 leg puller will work
A cobbled together, on the car, out of scrap hub extractor, meet Mr Ugly:





that's a short length of 70mm bore tube, some lugs hacked out of 8mm steel and welded on, a steel disc with an M16 nut welded in the centre, M16 bolt and an aluminium block as a pusher. It bolts on the back of the hub carrier using the 2 of the handbrake backing plate bolts, and winds the hub out of the bearing. No measuring, just hacked to 'fit' with an angle grinder and welder. I made this because trying packers in the front and the whelbolts was starting to do damage, and I've buggered up too many threads hammering on them.


Once the hub is removed, you'll have to remove the outer bearing race from it; a slot cut with the grinder and a whack with a chisel does that. It can also be done with a puller but is way more work.


Some spacers are needed to pull the hub through the new bearing, I have two old races for this; the first one I cut off, and a bored out one.


If you get anywhere near Chatham, I'll happily lend you all this stuff.

Edit:


you will need some robust circlip pliers, getting the old one out is the worst bit of the job. Every bearing I've done came with a new circlip and lock washer, you will NEED the circlip!


The backing plate bolts are spline drive for some reason(bloody Germans again), and need an appropriate bit.

Hi Nick W     you have a PM on its way ..    Regards, Al 

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Omega General Help / Re: nearside rack pinion replacement part

« on: 10 October 2020, 18:33:07 »

Great News . . .I think most of us were expecting a long list  with it being KF

Easy fixes on the advisories as well .     Splendid   

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Omega General Help / Re: nearside rack pinion replacement part

« on: 10 October 2020, 14:14:02 »

What exactly is written on the fail sheet?

I would suggest taking it to a different, preferably not a chain, garage for a retest before doing anything else...

As I read it  .  .test is not being done until today  PM  . . .so probably no fail sheet as yet   

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Omega General Help / Re: nearside rack pinion replacement part

« on: 10 October 2020, 13:46:14 »

IF . . it fails ,   (almost dead cert to fail at KF ),  Post up the fail issues and members on here will advise the best solution/s  to get it through test .

Advice here IMO is  : Don't let them do the work ! ! !

For future reference IMO   . . give KF a wide berth  . . .full stop !

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General Car Chat / Re: total wheel bearing revolutions

« on: 05 October 2020, 17:10:03 »

Have you allowed for the difference in rolling radius between tyre brands, and as the tyre wears in use?

Only wanted a rough figure out of curiosity   

. . .   you can calculate the above if you want  Nick 

Thinking now that tyre pressure would maybe vary results slightly as well . 

But 160 Million is close enough for my initial curiosity .  Ball Park Figure comes to mind   

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General Car Chat / Re: total wheel bearing revolutions

« on: 05 October 2020, 16:49:06 »

I did say Circa 

I used a Google tyre circumference calculator which said 799 revs per mile from that size tyre

Actual sum was 159,800,000  . . .  should have put Circa 160 million

Whats a couple of Mill between Oofers 

Not surprised its worn out 

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General Car Chat / total wheel bearing revolutions

« on: 05 October 2020, 16:04:39 »

Just worked out that the original omega estate wheel  bearing I am soon to change has done circa
158 million revolutions during it's lifetime on the car covering 200,000 miles .

Possibly got to add a few more though  for all the distance it has done in reverse     . . . or does the odometer still clock up in reverse ?

17" alloys fitted with 235 x 45 x 17 tyres . . . for anyone who wants to double check for me 

A totally useless but interesting bit of statistic info