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Is it possible to take it off without removing the head?It is held on by four 6mm bolts. I already had my engine out and on an engine stand so I didn't look to closely at what might be in the way with the engine in the car.
Thats the oneQuoteThere was a thread on here a few weeks back about someones increasingly frustrated attempts at pulling the rear wheel bearings out. I have done a search but I cannot find itThink this is the one Andy http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1249414830/1#1
The gist of it seemed to be that ordinary pullers will just break and that if you want to be sure of getting it done right first time then you need to take the whole trailing arm off the car and stick it in a 10 ton press.
Obviously taking the trailing arm off involves shed loads more work than would seem necessary so people have found other ways of shifting the axle from the bearing.
Going to have another look to see if I can find the thread...
ive had a pm from rustym95 from rotherham who says he has tech 2rustym95 did post on here when he bought his tech2. The price seemed far too good to be true though so some people doubted whether it was the genuine article....
plastic stud into the wing near the frontIs it one of those studs that has a plastic peg pushed into it to make it open? If it is you can use a parallel sided punch (or the blunt end of a drill bit) to push the peg right through to allow the stud to close up again. If the peg/insert isn't pushed all the way in you can often pull it out with pliers (saves have to crawl around to find it later)
Bugger, had my Land Rover hat on. (they have a transmission brake on the back of the gearbox).Quote:-? I'd have thought the only thing that confirms for sure is that the handbrake needs adjusting.Quoteas i know all mv6's had lsd, if you want to check jacup the rear so both rear wheels are off the ground and with car in neutral and hand brake off turn the wheel, if the other wheel turns in the opposite direction it has lsdThat is how a normal (open or non LSD) differential behaves if you have the handbrake on.
There are three types of LSD
- Friction: uses clutch plates to stop the differential operating until a pre set force is applied
- Viscous: uses the drag of a viscous fluid (oil) to control the differential rotation.
- Lock Up: if the differential rotation exceeds a pre set amount the diff locks up solid.
I would assume that the Omega would use a viscous LSD. Turning one rear wheel by hand with the hand brake on you should be able to turn it (slowly) with the drag of the viscous fluid resisting you and the other wheel turning the opposite direction.
as i know all mv6's had lsd, if you want to check jacup the rear so both rear wheels are off the ground and with car in neutral and hand brake off turn the wheel, if the other wheel turns in the opposite direction it has lsdThat is how a normal (open or non LSD) differential behaves if you have the handbrake on.
Water pump is aux belt driven on the V's unlike cam belt driven on the 4 potsI knew that it was driven by the auxiliary belt, I was just puzzled by the advice often given to change the pump when the cambelt was off.
