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Omega General Help / Re: Fan belt help needed!
« on: 10 January 2009, 11:22:49 »
All done now and running fine on B100 bio deisel! This engine just like most others I have tested goes better on my home brew diesel than it does on the stuff you buy at the pumps!

A happy bunny I am! [smiley=cool.gif]

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Omega General Help / Re: Fan belt help needed!
« on: 08 January 2009, 21:37:23 »
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i believe this is what you require
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13666355@N00/3034933770/sizes/l/ and it only took 5 mins to find on google,  did you realise the same engine was also used in range rovers, thats how i found the diagram :y

Oh ziperty doo dar! You is da Man. :y :y :y

It looks quite obvious now you come to look at it. Doh! What did you enter into google?

Thank you
Thank you
Thank you
 :D

Thanks to Omegatoy too!

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Omega General Help / Re: Fan belt help needed!
« on: 08 January 2009, 20:49:43 »
Ok I'll have a look in the morning with fresh eyes. I'm sure I must be daft or something. It's the cold you know! I'll post up how I get on tmrw.

Cheers, Si.

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Omega General Help / Re: Fan belt help needed!
« on: 08 January 2009, 20:23:47 »
Please!!! somebody put me out of my misery and post a picture or diagram of how this goes. I've spent 3 hours now trawling the interweb for a picture of the front of this engine.

I'm gonna go totally dippy soon :P :D

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Omega General Help / Re: Fan belt help needed!
« on: 08 January 2009, 20:18:39 »
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there is a pic on here somewhere, but basically you push it through the tensioner arm and around the pulley and back out if you see what i mean, before you put it round all the other pulleys once you have put it through the arm how it fitsis easy to work out, if you dont do this the belt appears to be a few cm to long!!! :y

Hmmm! This one is a good few cm to long! It's not like I'm not used to working on engines either. My other car is a 300bhp 2ltr Toyota as well as owning Mini's and a Pajero. I build my own mods and engines etc and compete in autotests and 12 car rally. This should be a doddle [smiley=embarassed.gif] I just can't seem to see how I can lose the slack for the life of me. I must be having a stupid day or something. Lol!

GSF say that according to 3 books they refer to they have given me the correct belt [smiley=cheesy.gif]

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Omega General Help / Re: Fan belt help needed!
« on: 08 January 2009, 19:13:08 »
All I need is a picture of the route the belt takes! Anyone? ::)

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Omega General Help / Fan belt help needed!
« on: 08 January 2009, 17:47:11 »
Hi I'm new here and to Omega's.

I posted this in the newbie section but now I've moved it here!

I have just bought my first one and 400miles later it has thrown the fan belt. I can't post on the tech forum and have searched for an hour now for any info on how the new belt goes on. The one I have been supplied seems way too long but GFS assure me it is the right one. I'd really appreciate any help esp. a picture or diagram as to how it goes.

The car is a 2.5 turbo deisel with the BMW engine on an M plate

Cheers for any help everyone and sorry to be asking questions on my first post, Si.

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Newbie Welcome Area / Re: Hello
« on: 08 January 2009, 17:48:57 »
Cheers everyone! I've started it again in general help, Thanks [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

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Newbie Welcome Area / Hello
« on: 08 January 2009, 17:26:10 »
Hi I'm new here and to Omega's.

I have just bought my first one and 400miles later it has thrown the fan belt. I can't post on the tech forum and have searched for an hour now for any info on how the new belt goes on. The one I have been supplied seems way too long but GFS assure me it is the right one. I'd really appreciate any help esp. a picture or diagram as to how it goes.

The car is a 2.5 turbo deisel with the BMW engine on an M plate

Cheers for any help everyone and sorry to be asking questions on my first post, Si.

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General Car Chat / Fuel prices and what to do about it!
« on: 28 March 2010, 16:36:22 »
Sorry that I don't post much here but I have sold the Omega to a friend who is loving it now.

Any way,this was posted by a friend of mine on another forum. Please take the time to read this and join in, it makes sense!

I found this article on another forum and thought I'd post it here.
(I believe this did the rounds last year or the year before.)


The price of oil is as low as it has been for a while, the oil companies have simply jacked their prices up and the government will not do anything as they rake in extra VAT for every increase.

See what you think and pass it on if you agree with it.

We are hitting 119.9 a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying 1.50 a litre. Philip Hollsworth offered this good idea:

This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the 'don't buy petrol on a certain day campaign that was going around last April or May! The oil companies just laughed at that because they knew we wouldn't continue to hurt ourselves by refusing to buy petrol. It was more of an inconvenience to us than it was a problem for them. BUT, whoever thought of this idea, has come up with a plan that can really work.

Please read it and join in!

Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to think that the cost of a litre is CHEAP, we need to take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the market place not sellers. With the price of petrol going up more each day, we consumers need to take action. The only way we are going to see the price of petrol come down is if we hit someone in the pocket by not purchasing their Petrol! And we can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves. Here's the idea:


For the rest of this year DON'T purchase ANY petrol from the two biggest oil companies (which now are one), ESSO and BP.

If they are not selling any petrol, they will be inclined to reduce their prices. If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow suit. But to have an impact we need to reach literally millions of Esso and BP petrol buyers. It's really simple to do!

Now, don't wimp out at this point... keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people!!

I am sending this note to a lot of people. If each of you send it to at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300)... and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000) ... and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers! If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted! If it goes one level further, you guessed it... ... THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!

Again, all You have to do is send this to 10 people. That's all.(and not buy at ESSO/BP) How long would all that take? If each of us sends this email out to ten more people within one day of receipt, all 300 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within the next 8days!!! Acting together we can make a difference . If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on.

PLEASE HOLD OUT UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE 90p a LITRE RANGE. It's easy to make this happen. Just forward this email and buy your petrol at Shell, Asda,Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons, Jet etc. i.e. boycott BP and Esso.

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