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Omega General Help / Re: head gasket???

« on: 21 March 2007, 23:35:52 »

this is the confusing parts :-?
the system (according to the clock) is not overheating, just over-pressureising !
i went for a day and a half, and only topped up 1cm of water, however, the winter has come back, and owing to the previous over-pressurising, i had lost all antifreeze.
so today at lunchtime, i added a Ltr of solution to the header tank, (i did let some water out of the top hose to acomidate this )

well.... it overpressureised big time. why???
it was ok before.....

have i got an airlock? water pump?
TBO, i am fed up of spending money on it,
any body want to buy it??

sod it , i'm havin another can of caffrey's

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Omega General Help / Re: head gasket???

« on: 20 March 2007, 00:39:03 »

ok, i will have a look at the water pump first, then look for any leaks on the hbv.
my journey to work is 20mile each way, and i loose about an inch out of the header tank total.
today however, i could not here the hissing from the cap, then again , it was only 3C outside temp

i would have posted earlier, but have been a little busy on the fun car.

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Omega General Help / head gasket???

« on: 15 March 2007, 00:00:48 »

a few week back, the aux belt snapped whilst in the outside lane of the local motorway.
so a very nice man took me home .......
we finally got around to fitting a new one (costing too much to run the other car), to which it seems to be blowing water out of the filler cap.
the temp' gauge did not ever read above 95c ( this was driving up a steep slope) and usually ran at 92c.

i have checked the thermostat, it is opening....
i did however, need to give myself some more time, so when the thermostat was out i drilled 3 holes on the PCD of the bypass hole, this has effectively lowered the running temp by 3 - 7c, so it is running at a temp of 87c - 90c,
.
this is still over pressurising!

if the head gasket is gone , what price are we looking at to fix it ?

getting a little fed up now, the saying is 'Lots Of Trouble Usually Serious' ( i prefer  'loves Over-Taking, Usually Speeding) for a lotus, at the moment however, i seem to  trust it much more the the meega.

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Omega General Help / Re: More awful MPGs

« on: 02 March 2007, 00:36:26 »

i seem to be getting around 32 on my daily commute now, it was doing around 27/28 until i noticed the tracking was out ( the steering was VERY light - like torque steer on a front wheel drive car)

Is yours a Manual? You might want to speak to Omegatoy about getting it chipped  

its an auto. just got over a overheating problem - valve stuck open on the cap ,  so the system wasn't pressurising, so the  mileage average could be higher (can hope cant i ?)
was thinking about a chip, but the cost is putting me off at the moment, have noticed superchips wanting £511 fitted! this is money i would rather ( no offence ment) be spending on the other car.
but then again .........  

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Omega General Help / Re: More awful MPGs

« on: 01 March 2007, 23:41:59 »

i seem to be getting around 32 on my daily commute now, it was doing around 27/28 until i noticed the tracking was out ( the steering was VERY light - like torque steer on a front wheel drive car)

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Newbie Welcome Area / Re: well hello there

« on: 25 February 2007, 23:48:46 »

thanks again for the welcome,
And a big thank you to Markjay for suplying the picture, the car is sorted now, that belt took 10mins to fit ( i had removed the s/s pipe from the manifold to the plenim so that time not inclued) the a/c belt however took a lot longer.
it seems that Halfrauds list the belt as a 780 , when we found the one that fitted was a 813?
once we had the correct belt, i would say the entire job took 45 mins
thanks chaps, back on the road in the everyday car.

Dodgy Dave

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Newbie Welcome Area / Re: well hello there

« on: 25 February 2007, 10:46:32 »

thanks for the welcome guys, and indeed, Markjay has sent the relevant picture to me

now if it would only stop raining i could get something done

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Newbie Welcome Area / well hello there

« on: 24 February 2007, 21:33:53 »

 ;)Hi All
names Dave or more commonly known as Dodgy. 8-) :-?

I bought my Omega about 5 weeks ago as the everyday car, TBH, i haven't had much luck with it though
the final straw was the Alternator belt breaking whist is the outside lane of the M54 motorway last monday, fun  
been having to use the nice day car since
ce la vie

anyway, as the belt broke into small strips, i havnt got a clue how the new one goes on :question
can anyone email a picture/drawing of the layout of the belt please

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General Discussion Area / Re: Project TB2 - Update 8

« on: 20 April 2007, 00:39:20 »

I was hoping you would get the problem sorted out quite quickly , you have a lot more patients than me Jaime.
the Honda i brought blew its radiator on monday, so i ordered a NEW one that night, it came wednesday morning. this is the link but they only list Omegas up to 99 :-?

http://www.adrad.co.uk/new/manufacturers.php

its says an omega 2.5TD with a/c and an auto is £49.22 +vat+£10 postage. but a manual with a/c is £126+vat+£10postage.  
i wasnt convinced about the price, but sure enough, it was delivered ontime for the price, mine was £56 delivered - and it has a oil cooler for the auto trans built in !

i do hope you get it sorted soon
regards
Dave

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General Discussion Area / Re: anyone use tomtom 300's?

« on: 02 March 2007, 18:58:45 »

the software i think you meen is the tom tom 'home' that lets you connect the 300 to the pc.
the file i downloaded is too big for me to e-mail (max 5meg limit).

however, i didn't have a copy on this laptop (it was on the main pc) so i downloaded 'home' at the same time ! this is the link i followed and clicked to download and run the EXE http://www.tomtom.com/plus/service.php?ID=17

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General Discussion Area / Re: anyone use tomtom 300's?

« on: 02 March 2007, 00:13:22 »

i updated my 300 today v6.52 ( wouldn't have done it if i had read this first) however , no problems, looks like its working OK so far, i have already programed it for my next run-out to donington park.
i do have 5.42 backed up , the files you need to replace are data.chk (1meg) , system(0.5meg) , and ttsystem(3.5meg) ( i think)

i may be able to email them to you
Dave 'dodgy'