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Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: Agemo on 02 November 2006, 23:39:28

Title: Had a prang, may need suspension help
Post by: Agemo on 02 November 2006, 23:39:28

Right, failed to negotiate a bend, flattened a sign, flew over a ditch, made a door in a hedgerow, then landed in a field. Front end is do-able, rear is a bit of a mystery, the back wheels are well out of camber, and I mean off the scale, I need to find out what is bent/broken/twisted or whatever. I have had a good look under the car, but nothing is obvious, think I will nip to the scrappy to compare. Anyone here got any ideas of what would "give" to take the impact??? All replies welcome, even the micky taking ones - well, it was my fault.
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Title: Re: Had a prang, may need suspension help
Post by: Gwilym on 03 November 2006, 00:02:13

Sorry to hear about your prang :(. I have no advice for you but won't take the piss either ;)

Hope you are OK

Title: Re: Had a prang, may need suspension help
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 03 November 2006, 08:42:15

The rear trailing arms have a set of tie rods (adjustable) coming from near the diff.....are they bent or broken.....

Title: Re: Had a prang, may need suspension help
Post by: Agemo on 03 November 2006, 18:22:37

Thanks Gwilym, I got away scott free luckily. As for the tie rods Mark, they seem perfectly straight, it's as if they have streched, must be something else.
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Title: Re: Had a prang, may need suspension help
Post by: TheBoy on 03 November 2006, 18:26:45

Glad to hear you're OK, you mad fool ;)

I may be wrong, but I thought rear camber was non adjustable.

May be worth PM'ing wheelsinmotion as he knows suspension settings on the Omega....

Title: Re: Had a prang, may need suspension help
Post by: Agemo on 04 November 2006, 21:58:49

It is adjustable apparently, although mine is way out, and I still have to find out the cause. could be that I have bent shafts or something.
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Oh and didn't want to bother WIM, not being a customer and all that.

Title: Re: Had a prang, may need suspension help
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 05 November 2006, 09:46:36

Sounds like the rear hub may be bent.....the tie rod adjsusts the camber by small amounts as the toe is changed......if it was me I might well be sourcing a trailing arm assembly.....

Title: Re: Had a prang, may need suspension help
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 05 November 2006, 09:48:23

I assume its not the alloy that is bent.

Title: Re: Had a prang, may need suspension help
Post by: Agemo on 05 November 2006, 15:53:29

Alloys are fine. I agree about the trailing arm ass'y, there is a decent Omega in my local scrappy so whatever I need is available. I just need the time off work to strip mine down & see what I require. Had I known about this & other damage, I would have bought another Omega, and ,made one good one from the two, I have plenty of good bits on mine & didn't want to scrap it. Suppose if I had known all the damage, it would have been better to get a good spec late model with a duff engine & slot mine in.
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