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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: VDO CDR500 misbehaving

« on: 18 May 2013, 10:37:21 »

Thanks, Dave!
                   I twisted the facia about a bit, hoping to bed the pins in, put it back in the car, and it worked!

Volume control still doesn't work, but that can be controlled from the steering wheel. Problem solved.

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: VDO CDR500 misbehaving

« on: 16 May 2013, 21:50:23 »

Noise the button makes. No lights on, nothing on the display

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Omega General Help / Re: fiting handbrake shoe steady springs

« on: 16 May 2013, 20:51:51 »

Thanks Marks. On doing the second side  I think I am getting the hang of it. Using the tool I have - a tube in a handle, I could have done as well with a long socket in a handle - I easily got the spring and cup on with the shoe to the side of the hub, then tapped the shoe into place afterwards. No springs pinged off out of sight this time.

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / VDO CDR500 misbehaving

« on: 16 May 2013, 20:43:24 »

1999 T reg petrol manual saloon
 I had this radio CD unit decoded, it ran OK though the volume control ceased to function. I removed the battery for other work, replaced it, and the radio was dead - clicking the vol control off/off did nothing. I took the unit out of the car, took off top and bottom panels, tinkered with it and put it back. It came to life!

Took battery out again, replaced it. This time I cannot get the radio to come back to life. The on/off volume control clicks, but nothing happens. Curses.

Any suggestions?

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Omega General Help / Re: fiting handbrake shoe steady springs

« on: 15 May 2013, 07:13:19 »

Most of my cars over the last fifty years had drum rear brakes, and they were designed to be serviced. Senators/Omegas had disc rear brakes and drum parking brakes, so the brake shoes never wore out, so the drum brakes would not need attention during the car's design life (7 years). We enthusiasts run end of life cars, cheap to buy but challenging to maintain.

Thanks Webby, flyer0172 and b4ndit for tips on tools. I shall buy them all and report back.

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Omega General Help / Re: fiting handbrake shoe steady springs

« on: 14 May 2013, 22:57:51 »

Thanks for all the advice chaps. Over the years I have overhauled handbrakes on Minis, Escorts, Peugeots, and others. The Omega is tricky in that I cannot get my hand  behind the pin to steady it. Some cars had a screw slot in the pin end and the pin plus spring engaged in a slot in the back plate. I have a tool similar to the e-bay number given. I have not seen the long handled tool depicted; I shall look for it.

The tool I have will not go through the hole in the hub, which makes it tricky. I seem to recall that Haynes recommends taking the hub off the car to do it. Bigger job. I suspect on the assembly line hub arrives with brake ready assembled.

As mentioned in earlier thread, once the scissors lever arrangement seizes up all the leverage is lost and the brake becomes ineffective. The OOF guide recommends overhaul every 2 years, which I think very wise. Pity it's tricky.

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Omega General Help / fiting handbrake shoe steady springs

« on: 14 May 2013, 18:17:56 »

Has anyone found a satisfactory method of fitting Omega handbrake shoe steady springs? Over the years I have tried various techniques, but they are all hit and miss, and risk resulting in the spring pinging off across the garage floor and disappearing. I wonder what they do in the factory?

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Omega General Help / Re: torque setting pinch bolt wishbone outer pin to steering hub

« on: 14 May 2013, 14:03:50 »

Thanks

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Omega General Help / torque setting pinch bolt wishbone outer pin to steering hub

« on: 14 May 2013, 08:29:12 »

I cannot work out from Haynes the above torque setting. It is for the pinch bolt that clamps the steering hub to the waisted ball joint pin on the lower wishbone. Please enlighten me

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Omega General Help / Re: hand brake lever seized up

« on: 13 May 2013, 23:06:37 »

My trouble is the spring ends are 90 degrees different. This means that the RH spring goes into the cable lever end from above, and drops out easily, whereas the LH spring goes in from below and will never come out for me. I end up getting cross with it and cutting it off. Spares cost £3 each.

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Omega General Help / hand brake lever seized up

« on: 13 May 2013, 22:13:39 »

My car passed its MOT today, with several advisory notes. Main advice was handbrake needed great effort to reach MOT standard. I had noticed this myself. This is my son's car, and he is a big strong chap, unlike me. Tonight I stripped down the left hand handbrake assembly, and discovered, as I suspected, that the lever arrangement which the cable pulls and spreads the shoes, was seized solid. A quick measurement shows a 5 to 1 mechanical advantage in the levers, which is lost if the wretched thing is seized solid.

Now I have it apart I will fit new shoes and clean and grease everything. The drums are OK.

I can never get off the left hand cable return spring, and end up cutting it off. Is there a trick? The right hand spring is easy.

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Omega General Help / handbrake cable pulling through wheel end mount

« on: 12 May 2013, 17:58:37 »

Just fitted new handbrake cable. I removed the old cable carefully from the coil mounts on the trailing arms, not wedging them open, but to no avail. The new cable began to burrow into the mounts and the adjustment was lost. Had to dismantle and put washers on the cable ends to effect a cure. Is this normal?

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Omega General Help / Uneven tyre wear on right front

« on: 12 May 2013, 12:30:43 »

Reading old threads I note that many members suffer wear on the inside edge of right front tyre. I experience this too. OOF advice is have the full geometry set up by experts. Does this cure this problem?

Is there any reason why this wear should occur on the right hand wheel rather than the left?

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Omega General Help / Re: LSDS Casing numbers

« on: 11 May 2013, 20:40:39 »

I thought that traction control on later Omegas simulated LSDs. Is this not the case?

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Omega General Help / Re: 2.2 16v throttle problem

« on: 09 May 2013, 19:09:54 »

Clogged air filter? Blocked induction tract?