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General Car Chat / Re: Seized / sheered brake bleed nipples

« on: 17 January 2026, 12:26:33 »

I'd tend towards stainless, because you've only got to look at titanium bolts and they snap.


You are fitting rubber caps to keep the nipples clear? Most of the seized ones I've seen have been where the sealing taper at the bottom was corroded

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Omega General Help / Re: Drivers side cyl head

« on: 16 January 2026, 20:51:53 »

I found mine was like that when I did the head gaskets - half the boss for the bolt was missing. I put it back together as it had clearly been like that since well before I bought the car. It was still like it when I sold the car several years later.

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Omega General Help / Re: 2.6 V6 head removal

« on: 16 January 2026, 20:36:42 »

It's MUCH easier to remove and replace the head with the manifold attached.

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General Car Chat / Re: New UK car sales for September 2025

« on: 05 December 2025, 20:03:09 »

Perhaps the water leaks are just copying one of VAGs poor engineering characteristic.
The white goods argument is also asinine, as cars have always been white goods

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General Car Chat / Re: This is nippy

« on: 23 September 2025, 14:47:35 »

I'm not sure of the spelling but the name of the car is pronounced 'Yang Whang'

Only on this side of the Atlantic

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General Discussion Area / Re: Dead Person

« on: 23 September 2025, 14:43:11 »

Dickie Bird  Had a 'good innings' though 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/c1dq0223930o

If that's supposed to be a joke, it flew past me...

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General Car Chat / Re: Project anyone?

« on: 22 September 2025, 17:31:10 »

Yes same shape as an Austin Cambridge and  Morris Oxford but with twin SU

they weren't ..... 

https://ebay.us/m/5JaP7L this is the Austin Cambridge/Morris Oxford that I know

Those Farina bodies replaced the Magnette mentioned by Tigger.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Channel4 Trump untruths

« on: 15 September 2025, 18:15:29 »

They're fitting it all into one evening? 

Varche didn't state they are going to cover everything in an evening

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General Car Chat / Re: Mercedes ML 280 CDI Project.

« on: 09 September 2025, 13:23:39 »

Sounds like the V8 one I was offered a few years ago. After a good look around it, and running it up and down the airfield, we decided that free was about £2000 too much

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General Car Chat / Re: Cam belt query.

« on: 23 August 2025, 15:33:28 »

1.8 is okay if cambelt goes, how do I know

.. and 1.3 Pinto is barely powerful enough to move its' own weight let alone the car as well. Box of swan vestas and a can of petrol.

which is why they weren't sold here. Instead, you could buy a mk3 Capri, mk5 Cortina - and I believe an early Sierra, but I've never seen one - with a 1300 crossflow, although virtually nobody did.


Much the same applies to a 2.0l Cologne(which we also didn't get) that does a number of things better than a 2.0l Pinto. Unfortunately those are all things you don't want: drink fuel; weight the front of the car down; has more, serious failure modes; costs more to maintain.


1.8 Pintos are barely more poweful than 1.6s, are fractionally more economical(due to a particularly crap carb), and I've only ever seen them in Sierras.

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General Car Chat / Re: Cam belt query.

« on: 22 August 2025, 17:39:32 »

When a Pinto cam belt broke what you did was dependent on the capacity:


2.0l - fit a new belt and drive away(I did one at the side of the road when the AA patrol lent me some tools)




1.6l - fit a new belt and hope it didn't bend any valves. Some do, some don't. It's worth the 20 minutes to find out which.


They have different length valves(if I remember right), and a 1.6head won't work on a 2.0l. I found that out the hard way....

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General Car Chat / Re: Why use a torx bolt

« on: 17 August 2025, 20:35:14 »

They're just jealous of how German manufacturers can use several different types and sizes of fastener on the same part, when they used to be criticised for a selection of whitworth, BA, UN and metric.

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General Car Chat / Re: Anyone older than 55? Take note...

« on: 07 August 2025, 14:27:23 »

Meanwhile, just how many here are under 55?

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Omega General Help / Re: Bonnet cable snapped - where can I get a new one?

« on: 03 August 2025, 16:47:16 »

The cable is easy; it's just a traditional Bowden cable as used on bike brakes for decades. So you buy a length of suitable size cable, slide it into the outer and solder on either your reclaimed ends or new ones.


The hard parts are getting the bonnet open, and figuring out how long the new inner needs to be.

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General Car Chat / Re: Would you have the balls to do this?

« on: 20 July 2025, 21:30:02 »

So you're saying you've never painted designs on a car on a Friday evening for a Sunday car show? All that's needed is some left over paint, some masking tape, newspaper, someone with some artistic ability* and a few beers**


*important, trust me


** really important