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Omega Gallery / Re: My new omega
« on: 14 February 2015, 02:56:55 »
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Omega Gallery / Re: Just another B2 Omega out there
« on: 13 February 2015, 17:39:57 »
She's been running well and oilservice coming soon. Front strut bearings started to make some noise earlier, changed those and all is well (and quiet) again, when steering. Didn't take any photos from that, but I did find some photos from last summer accidentally. Had saved them on PC, just forgot those 
Anyways, here they are, just a bit of polishing and stuff.
Clean, but not shiny
Front end done, some old Merc there
Sideview
Got myself on camera too
Finished product
-Miro
Anyways, here they are, just a bit of polishing and stuff.Clean, but not shiny
Front end done, some old Merc there
Sideview
Got myself on camera too
Finished product
-Miro
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Omega Gallery / Re: Finnish Omega
« on: 12 February 2015, 16:39:56 »
Very nice Omega you got there, good to see more finnish chaps here
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Omega Gallery / Re: Wheeels
« on: 04 January 2015, 01:51:02 »
From those options, the ones on the left. 
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Omega General Help / Re: Knocking from the left front when steering on MY 2000 omega
« on: 21 December 2014, 15:57:20 »Does the car have to be moving to hear it, or does it make the noise when stationary?
Noise can be heard when turning steering wheel stationary too.
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Omega General Help / Knocking from the left front when steering on MY 2000 omega
« on: 21 December 2014, 00:42:58 »
Hello everyone and merry christmas!
Anyhow, there's been some knocking sound from my left front. Appears when steering. Had the car on a carlift yesterday and didn't find any dramatic looseness on any of the different joints in the front end when I tried to locate it.
droplinks seem fine, I changed them last year and the noise isn't similar to them.
Wheels turn with ease, maybe a little sound when going past some steering angle.
So, I have a feeling that the top bearings from the suspension strut(s) is (are) giving up. I have had this noise come and go intermittent earlier, but mainly when moving the car after a long stop.
Anyhow, am I on the right tracks here? Also, good advices on troubleshooting are more than welcome, might even help some other poor bastard out there with the same problem
If it's any use, the mileage is 230 tkm atm, might help narrowing down the culprit here
Anyhow, there's been some knocking sound from my left front. Appears when steering. Had the car on a carlift yesterday and didn't find any dramatic looseness on any of the different joints in the front end when I tried to locate it.
droplinks seem fine, I changed them last year and the noise isn't similar to them.
Wheels turn with ease, maybe a little sound when going past some steering angle.
So, I have a feeling that the top bearings from the suspension strut(s) is (are) giving up. I have had this noise come and go intermittent earlier, but mainly when moving the car after a long stop.
Anyhow, am I on the right tracks here? Also, good advices on troubleshooting are more than welcome, might even help some other poor bastard out there with the same problem
If it's any use, the mileage is 230 tkm atm, might help narrowing down the culprit here
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Omega Gallery / Re: Just another B2 Omega out there
« on: 12 November 2014, 17:09:17 »
Thanks to TheBoy for updating the image URL's, pics should be visible once again
Damn thing hasn't let me down yet (
), so not much to tell for now. Made some longer hunting trips with her and she has been running nicely. On my first trip for this fall, I had my summertires on and as expected, there was some heavy snowing the day before I drove back home. The roads were used by some timbertrucks, squeezing the snow up nicely which had been followed with some raining in the night. So the roads were "quite" slippery. Not excatly the most relaxing (or the fastest) 200 km's to drive before getting to some bigger and unfrozen roads 
Passed MOT test last friday with flying colours and even a bit of praise from the inspector.
Winter is coming, again, and I haven't installed that pre-heater yet. Should really get on with it. Also planning to clean the breathers and maybe chancing the thermostat, but we'll see. And waxing her up too before they start to salt the roads. Going to get some pics out of those jobs once I get on with them.
-Miro
Damn thing hasn't let me down yet (
), so not much to tell for now. Made some longer hunting trips with her and she has been running nicely. On my first trip for this fall, I had my summertires on and as expected, there was some heavy snowing the day before I drove back home. The roads were used by some timbertrucks, squeezing the snow up nicely which had been followed with some raining in the night. So the roads were "quite" slippery. Not excatly the most relaxing (or the fastest) 200 km's to drive before getting to some bigger and unfrozen roads Passed MOT test last friday with flying colours and even a bit of praise from the inspector.
Winter is coming, again, and I haven't installed that pre-heater yet. Should really get on with it. Also planning to clean the breathers and maybe chancing the thermostat, but we'll see. And waxing her up too before they start to salt the roads. Going to get some pics out of those jobs once I get on with them.
-Miro
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Omega Gallery / Re: My MV6
« on: 17 July 2014, 19:11:27 »
Damn kids, good thing you had insurance that covered that
Nice work on polishing those headlights, I'll try it soon too to get my right side headlight a bit brighter. Going to post pics about it also, if the operation is a success
-Miro
Nice work on polishing those headlights, I'll try it soon too to get my right side headlight a bit brighter. Going to post pics about it also, if the operation is a success
-Miro
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Omega Gallery / Re: Just another B2 Omega out there
« on: 17 July 2014, 19:03:56 »
I've been quite quiet about Omega's life for a while, but no worries. Still going strong.
Got air conditioner maintenanced today, there's a small leak in the maintenance valve in the high pressure tubing. Had only 136 grams of R 134a left, I'll try to find a good second hand one. Luckily the leak is so small, that AC should stay alive for the rest of the summer.
Otherwise things have been good and I've only washed and driven her (Haven't driven that much lately, got my Honda Hornet back on the road also). Polished paintjob also few weeks back, I'll up some pics later. Maybe things have gotten too easy, now I'm getting paranoid because I think that the coolant level has dropped atleast 2 mm since the timebelt change 
-Miro
Got air conditioner maintenanced today, there's a small leak in the maintenance valve in the high pressure tubing. Had only 136 grams of R 134a left, I'll try to find a good second hand one. Luckily the leak is so small, that AC should stay alive for the rest of the summer.
Otherwise things have been good and I've only washed and driven her (Haven't driven that much lately, got my Honda Hornet back on the road also
). Polished paintjob also few weeks back, I'll up some pics later. Maybe things have gotten too easy, now I'm getting paranoid because I think that the coolant level has dropped atleast 2 mm since the timebelt change -Miro
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Omega General Help / Re: Cam belt
« on: 15 June 2014, 17:08:13 »Hi,
Not too sure if this is the right way to enter a post but I'm quite unfamiliar with the routine. In any event I am in the process of changing the cam belt on my 2003 2.6 following alternator failure and a trip home courtesy of the AA. Having already decided to change the belt (129,000 miles and no idea when or if the belt has been changed before), I purchased the OOF dvd on the subject some while ago (an excellent and down-to-earth treatise of the procedure complete with domestic noises off and occasional low-flying aircraft) and also a cambelt kit as recommended. Now, this was purchased online from an outfit purporting to deal exclusively in Vauxhall parts, so despite the fact that the cambelt kit was manufactured by SKF (a name usually commensurate with quality) and that all the component parts appeared to be identical with those described in the dvd, I was not unduly concerned. The new tensioner base plate was identically marked ('6B') as the original. All went well until it came to the actual fitting of the belt. New alternator, water pump and tensioner fitted OK although I felt that a course in gynaecology would be appropriate where fitting the alternator top bolt is concerned. The belt was marked as per the dvd so I started to thread it (cams locked as described using the same Laser kit) ensuring that the double line was lined up with marks on the crankshaft. Fine. Following the dvd and threading the belt over the left hand side was successful with the marks lining up with the TDC indicators on the cams. Then woe. There is no way. I repeat, no way that the marks on the belt will now line up with the TDC marks on cams 3 & 4. They are about an inch short. No matter what I do, I cannot improve on this. I have checked the belt length against the original and it matches. As far as I can see, the marks on the original belt appear to be further apart than on the new one. Also, the new belt appear to be slightly thinner and less robust than the original. It looks like I either have the wrong belt or something is wrong with the markings. I can make the belt fit but am reluctant to do so owing to the importance of getting the tensions right. By the way, neither my original nor new lower idler rollers have a tension adjustment, unlike that in the dvd. Am I missing something here or should I cut my losses and obtain a new belt?
With appreciation for any sympathy or abuse as appropriate,
Grahamff
Had the same thing with my skf kit: http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=121297.msg1559669#msg1559669
If you want some peace of mind (as I did, doing the cambelt for the first time on v6
), there's the alternate pitch pacing here: http://www.dayco.com.au/pageBANK/documents/t00014.pdf
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Omega Gallery / Re: Just another B2 Omega out there
« on: 26 April 2014, 18:36:33 »
So, back again. Remembered the last oil change a bit wrong and did a 2000 km easter trip to northern Finland (born and raised there) first. Everything went quite smoothly, but once again Omega managed to surprise me 
Wipers managed to f**k up on the way there, luckily there wasn't much rain. The wipers linkage had came loose from the wipermotors shaft, fixed it there. Took few minutes after a lot of wiggling to get the wiper arms out of the way. So far I've made two trips there and first time my outside temp sensor fubard on the way and now this, so maybe the car doesn't like going up north
On the + side, chancing the old water pump stopped my little coolant loss. It was making some noise already and there was a little play on the shaft, so no wonder.
Fuel consumption was quite ok, about 8,5 litres/ 100 km or about 27,7 mpg. Four grown men in the car + "some" stuff (lots and lots of beer hidden in there)
Went to the trip on winter tires, wanted to play it safe. Although summer tires would have been already justified, but you never know when some springstorm bites you up there.
And today I finally changed back to summertires and cleaned the car a bit. Now it seems to be just hard driving for a while, no big services in sight. Oils and similar light service only, and repair those rusty rear wheel arches also. Atleast I hope so
And, yeah, I know, would do some good to lower it a bit. Atm my budget doesn't allow me to do that, so I'll have to wait a bit. I would also like to change that original grill to an Irmscher grill, or something like that and some other "spoiler" to the rear door. Only aesthetics, so no hurry on those
Wipers managed to f**k up on the way there, luckily there wasn't much rain. The wipers linkage had came loose from the wipermotors shaft, fixed it there. Took few minutes after a lot of wiggling to get the wiper arms out of the way. So far I've made two trips there and first time my outside temp sensor fubard on the way and now this, so maybe the car doesn't like going up north
On the + side, chancing the old water pump stopped my little coolant loss. It was making some noise already and there was a little play on the shaft, so no wonder.
Fuel consumption was quite ok, about 8,5 litres/ 100 km or about 27,7 mpg. Four grown men in the car + "some" stuff (lots and lots of beer hidden in there)
Went to the trip on winter tires, wanted to play it safe. Although summer tires would have been already justified, but you never know when some springstorm bites you up there.
And today I finally changed back to summertires and cleaned the car a bit. Now it seems to be just hard driving for a while, no big services in sight. Oils and similar light service only, and repair those rusty rear wheel arches also. Atleast I hope so
And, yeah, I know, would do some good to lower it a bit. Atm my budget doesn't allow me to do that, so I'll have to wait a bit. I would also like to change that original grill to an Irmscher grill, or something like that and some other "spoiler" to the rear door. Only aesthetics, so no hurry on those
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Omega Gallery / Re: My MV6
« on: 12 April 2014, 22:56:24 »
Really nice looking Omega there, that white leather interior is just awesome
About that suspension update, KW sounds good. Trying to find something costefficient for my caravan atm too.
-Miro
About that suspension update, KW sounds good. Trying to find something costefficient for my caravan atm too.
-Miro
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Omega Gallery / Re: Just another B2 Omega out there
« on: 26 March 2014, 15:32:25 »Very nice, how do you fill the oil with the Vectra cam covers....?
By moving the plenum out of the way. Would also be possible to switch the lefthand cover to the right side and vice versa to get the oil filler cap to a bit more available position, but after that the sparkplug leads wouldn't sit to their places as good as they do now afaik.
Minor discomfort in use tbh, but luckily it doesn't seem to be consuming too much oil, so no need to top it up between oil changes. Anyhow, while the plenum is off, there's no excuse to leave this undone http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=90653.0
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Omega Gallery / Re: Just another B2 Omega out there
« on: 24 March 2014, 19:12:22 »
Great info from elwin there indeed
Anyhow, finally got some time to do the timing belt change on this car. First time for me doing this, so it took some time (last timing belt change I did was on a Lada Samara, this was a tad bit more complicated)
As always, topics are worthless without pics, so here's a few.
So, first some stuff out of the way
And we get a view something like this
Next up, took the old water pump out
And fitted a new one and locked crank to TDC
After that, locked those cams and took the old belt off.
Next up, fitted a new timing belt kit. The lines on that belt that came with SKF kit were completely off (or for a different belt tensioner), luckily found timing mark pitch spacing from Dayco http://www.dayco.com.au/pageBANK/documents/t00014.pdf (marked those with a little paint, which you can see there)
After that, pretightened the belt, rotated the crank 720 degrees and tuned the timing. Easy with that tool.
Finally, assembled the car back to one piece and started it with no problems. I also fitted a new auxiliary drive belt. After a testdrive, gave a quick wash to the engine compartment, was damn filthy in there
Next up, oil change + a new thermostat. Haven't had time to install that pre-heater either but luckily it's been warm here.
- Miro
Anyhow, finally got some time to do the timing belt change on this car. First time for me doing this, so it took some time (last timing belt change I did was on a Lada Samara, this was a tad bit more complicated)
As always, topics are worthless without pics, so here's a few.
So, first some stuff out of the way
And we get a view something like this
Next up, took the old water pump out
And fitted a new one and locked crank to TDC
After that, locked those cams and took the old belt off.
Next up, fitted a new timing belt kit. The lines on that belt that came with SKF kit were completely off (or for a different belt tensioner), luckily found timing mark pitch spacing from Dayco http://www.dayco.com.au/pageBANK/documents/t00014.pdf (marked those with a little paint, which you can see there)
After that, pretightened the belt, rotated the crank 720 degrees and tuned the timing. Easy with that tool.
Finally, assembled the car back to one piece and started it with no problems. I also fitted a new auxiliary drive belt. After a testdrive, gave a quick wash to the engine compartment, was damn filthy in there
Next up, oil change + a new thermostat. Haven't had time to install that pre-heater either but luckily it's been warm here.
- Miro
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Omega Gallery / Just another B2 Omega out there
« on: 04 February 2014, 23:23:38 »
Hi all, my first Omega and so on. I was thinking to share my maintenance experiences and whatnot on this topic and I hope it's ok. Might help me to stay on the track with the car also
No tuning and stuff like that yet. I might lower it a bit on the coming summer but we'll see. Anyways, here's some story of the car:
So, my Omegas story starts about ½ years ago, when I was driving to work with my old 190 Merc and noticed this car on the parking lot of a local car dealer.
It was actually the parking lot where they park the cars before they come to public trade, so I asked for an offer from the dealer and got a really really good one.
Anyways, as always, there is no free meal. ABS/TC lights where on, speedo not working etc. luckily there's this: http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=90627.0
Other than that, the car felt pretty solid. Tires were completely shot, apparently the earlier owner changed shitty tires underneath her before swapping her. on the + side, car had a full service book (synthetic oils changed every 10 tkm and so on) and 220 tkm on the clock. Car had only had 3 owners before me. Last owner had keeped it for 8 years, so it can't be that bad, can't it
After the weekend I put the 190 to sale and bought Omega. On a closer inspection, there was some rust in the rear wheel arches and so on, but nothing alarming.
So, first things first. Had to get some wheels and tires for it in order to get it to running order. The old tires where horrific, when I took a closer look on them, I was horrified that I even took a test ride on the car
After some searching on the local forum, I came up with a good set of wheels and tires and bought them, pictures related:
After getting the tires, it was time to repair the ABS control unit. Easy job with the maintenance guide presented here and refurbing it cost 145€ here in Finland. Took a couple of pictures taking the ECU out:
After taking care of that, I made some inspections on the brakes generally, and noticed that the rear brake discs where pretty shot. So where the front ones, they had gotten way too narrow. So, I ordered new brake discs + pads etc for every corner. While I was at that, I also ordered new spark plugs, plug wires and camshaft covers (aluminum from Vectra). Also painted them red just for the lols
After getting her up to somewhat good running order, it was time to do some magic to that tired paintjob. Big thanks for my workmate on my summer work place for taking time to do this.
scratches part one:
part two:
side polished:
Front end polished:
getting there:
Done enough
So, after those maintenances, winter got here too. It was time to downgrade to wintertires and so on
Some rather shitty off focus pics here, be warned. On the + side, winter + RWD, can't go wrong there
Thanks for reading so far. Coming up next is the timing belt change and installing an electric pre-heater (had to start her up couple of time in -25 degrees celsius, don't want to do that anymore when there are solutions easier for the engine. Also consumption is skyrocketing on those starts as expected)
No tuning and stuff like that yet. I might lower it a bit on the coming summer but we'll see. Anyways, here's some story of the car:
So, my Omegas story starts about ½ years ago, when I was driving to work with my old 190 Merc and noticed this car on the parking lot of a local car dealer.
It was actually the parking lot where they park the cars before they come to public trade, so I asked for an offer from the dealer and got a really really good one.
Anyways, as always, there is no free meal. ABS/TC lights where on, speedo not working etc. luckily there's this: http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=90627.0
Other than that, the car felt pretty solid. Tires were completely shot, apparently the earlier owner changed shitty tires underneath her before swapping her. on the + side, car had a full service book (synthetic oils changed every 10 tkm and so on) and 220 tkm on the clock. Car had only had 3 owners before me. Last owner had keeped it for 8 years, so it can't be that bad, can't it
After the weekend I put the 190 to sale and bought Omega. On a closer inspection, there was some rust in the rear wheel arches and so on, but nothing alarming.
So, first things first. Had to get some wheels and tires for it in order to get it to running order. The old tires where horrific, when I took a closer look on them, I was horrified that I even took a test ride on the car
After some searching on the local forum, I came up with a good set of wheels and tires and bought them, pictures related:
After getting the tires, it was time to repair the ABS control unit. Easy job with the maintenance guide presented here and refurbing it cost 145€ here in Finland. Took a couple of pictures taking the ECU out:
After taking care of that, I made some inspections on the brakes generally, and noticed that the rear brake discs where pretty shot. So where the front ones, they had gotten way too narrow. So, I ordered new brake discs + pads etc for every corner. While I was at that, I also ordered new spark plugs, plug wires and camshaft covers (aluminum from Vectra). Also painted them red just for the lols
After getting her up to somewhat good running order, it was time to do some magic to that tired paintjob. Big thanks for my workmate on my summer work place for taking time to do this.
scratches part one:
part two:
side polished:
Front end polished:
getting there:
Done enough
So, after those maintenances, winter got here too. It was time to downgrade to wintertires and so on
Some rather shitty off focus pics here, be warned. On the + side, winter + RWD, can't go wrong there Thanks for reading so far. Coming up next is the timing belt change and installing an electric pre-heater (had to start her up couple of time in -25 degrees celsius, don't want to do that anymore when there are solutions easier for the engine. Also consumption is skyrocketing on those starts as expected
)
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