Omega Owners Forum
Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: TheBoy on 07 December 2013, 10:34:40
-
(http://theboy.omegaowners.com/oofpics/mv6/rearpads.JPG)
(http://theboy.omegaowners.com/oofpics/mv6/rearpads2.JPG)
-
Anyone near brakkers got a spare rear calliper? :-[
-
Tightarse......Shame on you. ::) ::) ;D ;D
-
Not bad. 1000 miles? Less?? ;D
-
Got one here which you're welcome to... define 'near' though :-\
-
Not bad. 1000 miles? Less?? ;D
Sounds about right ;D ;D
Anyone near brakkers got a spare rear calliper? :-[
Trip to the scrappy?
-
Got one here which you're welcome to... define 'near' though :-\
Nearer :(
My definition is somewhere I can drive to with a seized caliper :-X
-
Trip to the scrappy?
My first thought, but doubt I'd be able to get it off, as I suspect that field will be a tad boggy, and with no wheels on the car, the callipers are pretty much holding the cars up...
-
For comparison... ...new ones...
(http://theboy.omegaowners.com/oofpics/mv6/rearpadsnew.JPG)
-
Got one here which you're welcome to... define 'near' though :-\
Nearer :(
My definition is somewhere I can drive to with a seized caliper :-X
Well technically you'd make it....
....if you drove like Tunnie... ;D
Joking aside, is TBE broken :-\ could you make it to Heathrow? Guessing Swidnod is a stretch being cross country :-\
-
If you are seriously up sh!t creak, I do know where there is a silver 3.2 spare ::) :-X
Guessing you need it next week?
Think taking a jack down there, it would just dig into the soft mud. :(
-
Any trip more than a few miles would have to be a one way trip, judging by the damage to that pad's backing plate - I heard that familiar metal on metal noise on Thursday morning driving in, and I drove home that evening, trying to avoid the brakes, as after each application, there was a metal on metal sound for several miles.
Possibly due to lack of tools, I can't free off the calliper, and the outboard dust seal has failed (the outboard is the sticking one).
-
If you are seriously up sh!t creak, I do know where there is a silver 3.2 spare ::) :-X
Guessing you need it next week?
Think taking a jack down there, it would just dig into the soft mud. :(
Two quite bright people and not a braincell between you ::)
Use a boot carpet from another car to put under the jack, it will sink a little but you're talking two bolts and a pair of snips/hacksaw on the brake line. Once the car is a bit off the ground use either a spare wheel or an inlet manifold under the trailing arm :y
-
If you are seriously up sh!t creak, I do know where there is a silver 3.2 spare ::) :-X
Guessing you need it next week?
Think taking a jack down there, it would just dig into the soft mud. :(
Two quite bright people and not a braincell between you ::)
Use a boot carpet from another car to put under the jack, it will sink a little but you're talking two bolts and a pair of snips/hacksaw on the brake line. Once the car is a bit off the ground use either a spare wheel or an inlet manifold under the trailing arm :y
I tried a door once to jack one up, and failed ;D. Admittedly, it was using the jack that GM supply - its not feasible to carry a trolley jack in there.
-
Principle still stands... if your forced to use a standard jack, then that helps access :y Pop into WHSmiths on the way and buy the latest Katie Price hardback and use as a jackstand, failing that, an old Haynes manual would do the job, or better still, a crash bar face down to set the jack in :y
I wouldn't use body panels though, as the crumple quite unpredictably...
-
If you are seriously up sh!t creak, I do know where there is a silver 3.2 spare ::) :-X
Guessing you need it next week?
Think taking a jack down there, it would just dig into the soft mud. :(
Two quite bright people and not a braincell between you ::)
Use a boot carpet from another car to put under the jack, it will sink a little but you're talking two bolts and a pair of snips/hacksaw on the brake line. Once the car is a bit off the ground use either a spare wheel or an inlet manifold under the trailing arm :y
That site is a nightmare to be fair. They dump them in a huge half water logged field. Anything on the bottom of the car then becomes inaccessible. They arrange them side on so can't even get a tractor under them to lift them up. If their open.
-
Boot carpet, ha! You walk through that scrappy, you can stand on a Mondeo bonnet that's sunk in, just because someone has stepped on it!
The ground is super, super soft. Wellies a must.
-
Fair dos... the only alternative that I can offer is driving it gently down here :-\
-
If I can't free it off in the next couple of hours, a plan B is forming.
-
Al if you can get the spare one to me i can run it upto tb if needed. :y
-
How is it that the place is still trading?
The scrappies I used to go to all told me that they were being forced to lay concrete to be able to demonstrate that vehicle fluids (oil/antifreeze/acid) weren't able to soak into the soil and contaminate the groundwater.
-
Al if you can get the spare one to me i can run it upto tb if needed. :y
Currently on crutches :'(
-
How is it that the place is still trading?
The scrappies I used to go to all told me that they were being forced to lay concrete to be able to demonstrate that vehicle fluids (oil/antifreeze/acid) weren't able to soak into the soil and contaminate the groundwater.
There is a 'proper' scrap section, concrete formed, weigh bridge and such, with big machines to munch it all up.
Next door is the field where the cars sit, the ground is feked. It's full of car bits, you walk between them there are countless bits of bodywork, oils, fluids, metals, fabrics, you name it.
-
How is it that the place is still trading?
The scrappies I used to go to all told me that they were being forced to lay concrete to be able to demonstrate that vehicle fluids (oil/antifreeze/acid) weren't able to soak into the soil and contaminate the groundwater.
The pikeys that run it (thankfully) mostly ignore 'elf and safety :)
They have relented slightly in the last year or so, they now blow all airbags and remove fluid reservoirs
-
You can always guarantee that when going to a scrappy for wheel/brake/suspension parts that the car you need is sat in the mud with two others perched on top!! :D >:(