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[bigegg]

Following on from my local garage's run-in with the rear wheel bearing on my mig (14 hours it took them! - shame I'd got a firm price of £70 + the bearing    )

Driving home from the garage after collecting the mig, I started to get a rattling noise from the same wheel 

Got home, stripped down the brake
using this:
http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1152564750
 and it looks as tho the pin[1]
which holds the retaining springs on the handbrake has bent, and pulled through it's hole in the splashguard.

It looks as tho I'll definitely need a new pin, and possibly a new splashguard (depending if I can use a washer to bridge the hole)

Can the splashguard be removed without taking off the hub? (and thus needing the bearing pressing out/in again)?

Is there a part number for the pin?

Worst case, I can probably bodge something to make it work, but I'm hoping for an easy fix.

I *could* take it back to the garage and say "you did this - get it fixed", but they are good lads, and I've definitely had my money's worth out of them today 



[1] Picture 7 in the guide, shown as being removed with long nosed pliers

[tomoco]

Try ebay. i got a full set of springs, pins and clips for the rear shoes on the omega for around a tenner about a year ago. VX will be expensive and probably take ages.

[mrgreen]

i'm sure someone will have one of these floating about which they'll send along to you for the price of postage! and could you take the piss a bit and take it back to the shop and ask them to drop a weld onto the back of the pin to hold it in place, it would make getting it back on alot easier as well!

[Omegatoy]

far as i know, only one pin can be removed with the back plate on and thats a fiddley job! easy way is to tack weld a pin to a washer, then weld the washer to the hole, strange thig is when you do the rear wheel bearing you have to replace the back plate cos it gets damages when pressing the bearing, having said that, I spent anhour panel beating mine back into shape, so i could reuse it!! and of course if you forget to put the pins in when pressing the assembly back together your stuffed!!!  :-/

[bigegg]

Try ebay. i got a full set of springs, pins and clips for the rear shoes on the omega for around a tenner about a year ago. VX will be expensive and probably take ages.

just sourced a set on ebay from a seller in dewsbury - which I drive past on my way to the car boot sale this morning :.)

thanks!

[bigegg]

far as i know, only one pin can be removed with the back plate on and thats a fiddley job! easy way is to tack weld a pin to a washer, then weld the washer to the hole, strange thig is when you do the rear wheel bearing you have to replace the back plate cos it gets damages when pressing the bearing, having said that, I spent anhour panel beating mine back into shape, so i could reuse it!! and of course if you forget to put the pins in when pressing the assembly back together your stuffed!!!  :-/

looks like I'll be digging the mig welder out then...
should be interesting - I've only done stick welding for the last ten years.