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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 12 August 2025, 12:01:40 »

So, Saturday I completely flushed out and replaced my brake fluid. No bubbles, but it was a disgusting brown colour.

Following the head rebuilds, and a few short local trips to bed in the new valves and all the other new parts, embarked on a 150-mile trip down to Suffolk.

Tried to go gentle and not exceed 2000rpm. All seems well so far - no leaks, noises or falters. 34mpg too, which is OK by me…

I know I keep saying it, but without the OOF team this would never have happened. Cheers. 

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Omega Gallery / Re: First daylight in 4 months...

« on: 13 July 2025, 11:31:10 »

Yes that’s what it is.

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Omega Gallery / Re: First daylight in 4 months...

« on: 12 July 2025, 11:01:36 »

Thanks mate. As instructed by The Boy, I’ll get some more pix when it’s a bit less hot.

Fully understand your comment about the tailgate - before this I had a 2.5 Elite, then before that all my cars were Volvo estates for that very reason.

Done a few short trips to make sure everything seems OK, clean cardboard under the front has shown up no drips so it’s looking promising.

Cheers…

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Omega Gallery / First daylight in 4 months...

« on: 01 July 2025, 13:42:48 »

Quick clean then a short run round the block. So far so good...

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 20 June 2025, 16:55:29 »

I wish you well CW. Back stuff is so unpredictably painful.

BTW. On a previous  topic (Grrrr) you asked if all pistons were coming up equal to the top of the bores. I did check but not sure I acknowledged your question/advice.

All were coming up to exactly 40 thou from the block face.

Apologies if that’s considered ’off-topic’ for here.

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 20 June 2025, 15:15:00 »

What have I done to my car today? Absolutely nothing.
Day before? Nothing. And so it goes on.

After 3 months of crawling underneath, on top, skinning knuckles, arms (face even!), lifting heavy objects, tightening to torques that are inhuman, I went out to ‘pop’ the lightweight fibreglass undertray back on, knelt on my cushion (my knees and concrete don’t see eye to eye) and boing!!

Can’t get up again. Fortunately I had enough strength in my arms to lever myself back up on the bumper and my toolbox.

Spent the last 5 days needing herself’s help to get my … well let’s leave it there.

So humiliating, and frustrating. If I even could get in, I wouldn’t drive it with the tray missing. That would be asking to return to square one.

So now it’s ME making the clattering noise…!

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Omega General Help / Re: Simple Code Reader

« on: 17 June 2025, 16:58:43 »

 

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Omega General Help / Re: Simple Code Reader

« on: 17 June 2025, 16:16:12 »

Just a slight aside, what would Mark DTM have used when he updated my auto gearbox software??

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Omega General Help / Re: Simple Code Reader

« on: 17 June 2025, 15:55:10 »

That’s fine. All I want is to see codes without having to stare at flashes (!!) and clear irrelevant ones.

Cheers T.B.

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Omega General Help / Re: Simple Code Reader

« on: 17 June 2025, 14:23:36 »

OK. After some more digging I can see that The Boy basically answered this in 2008!

OBD2 compliant.

Cheers.

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Omega General Help / Simple Code Reader

« on: 17 June 2025, 13:14:48 »

Could anyone confirm if this code reader/clearer will work OK with my Y26SE engine?

https://amzn.eu/d/aFb8E57

Not looking for the full two bob solution, just basics so I don’t have to count flashes.
And I also want to clear all the nasty codes from before.

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Omega General Help / Re: Temp gauge & drip issue.

« on: 16 June 2025, 15:25:30 »

Will do. Wheels back on now. Seems like months, and that’s because it is! 5th March this all started.

Might risk a gentle run down the drive and back tomorrow.

Thanks for your kind words, but I think V6 god might be going a bit far!!

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Omega General Help / Re: Temp gauge & drip issue.

« on: 16 June 2025, 13:18:49 »

So, all sorted. When I took the coolant bridge off, the 4 washers were a bit ropey and since I couldn’t find any at the time I reused the existing ones.

I wrapped a spiral of ptfe tape around them, a thin film of RTV then a thin fibre washer under the bolt so as not to chew up the tape.

I’m sure you can all see what’s coming. The fix had created perfect electrical insulation between the bridge and the heads, so robbing the sensor of its ground connection. I did notice that the washers had a metallic insert but foolishly paid no attention to it.

I’ve put a short wire from under the sensor to a nearby bolt to reinstate the ground connection.

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Omega General Help / Re: Temp gauge & drip issue.

« on: 14 June 2025, 17:51:05 »

 

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Omega General Help / Re: Temp gauge & drip issue.

« on: 14 June 2025, 16:12:18 »

I read a post on the old site that said if I ground the sender wire, the gauge should go to max.

If that’s still good advice I will ask herself to look at the gauge while I do the grounding.