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General Discussion Area / Re: What do we drive today
« on: 14 January 2022, 17:19:12 »
I am down to one Omega (3.2 MV6) at the moment, but only as an occasional car, I have VW Van for daily work duties.
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As the wind was low, and the sky looked clear, seemed rude not to send one of the drones up at sunrise this morning...
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Fair enough, B6s were a waste on the Omega, so B8s are an extravagance, but not my car, so if it works for you...Yes , as mentioned we fitted the bigger Lotus spec cup washers that we make from S514 which makes them last longer.
Did you remember the cup washer below the top mount?
What makes them 'upside-down'So called "upside-down" Bilstein front dampers have the body containing the oil in a large diameter chamber that looks like a massive piston rod at the top of the shock, and the rod then is screwed to the bottom of the strut. There are benefits in unsprung mass (marginal) and rigidity (mainly) when used in a McPherson strut where bending loads are applied to the assembly. They were popular for use in rally applications for this reason.
And did you refit the cup washer below the top mount (cup face down - opposite to the top one)? Not doing so will blow the top mount in pretty short order.
Also have Bilstein improved the rear fitting kits? Always found them underwhelming compared to the Sachs/OE fittings Rear shock upper threads were nearly an inch shorter than the Sachs/Factory ones.
And blown crank seal instead of camcover gaskets are the reason not to use them.Do you, or anyone know of any updates to the crankcase breather on later 3.2 engines? Both my 2001 cars (both with FSH) have had massive oil leaks from the cam cover seals, but the 2003 Elite that I broke didn't leak at all apart from a small weep low on the LHS of the block. My first assumption, as it had been used as a farmyard runaround in a far from cherished condition when I found it, was there wasn't any oil in it. But it did, and the engine ran very sweetly. I hadn't heard about the crankseal problem if aluminium cam covers are used, which sort of points to an underlying excess of crankcase pressure.