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[terry paget]

Oh, go on, tell us. We give up.

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Lead left loose on top of a plug?

[ted_one]

Have I missed it???

[gstylebaby]

Faulty dis pack.....broken down lead....plug loose....loose connector.....I could go on but I can't be bothered so just tell us already 

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Come on then!

We are all waiting...................don't go quiet now. Just tell us!

The excitement is killing me

[ted_one]

Come on Paul...fess up you little teaser you. Our Kent agent, The Alarming man will be paying you a visit with the electrodes for your scrotal area to persuade you, and you don't really want that..do you?

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Come on Paul...fess up you little teaser you. Our Kent agent, The Alarming man will be paying you a visit with the electrodes for your scrotal area to persuade you, and you don't really want that..do you?

.........or worse still I'll pay you a visit and make you an offer you can't refuse! 

Be afraid, very afraid!

 

[ted_one]

Looks like a visit from Miss Zoom is imminent Paul...I suggest you come out with your hands in the air

[TheBoy]

That code would imply rear multiram not plugged in, shagged, or loom shagged.

Hard to tell which, as looks like you've use a shit code reader

[terry paget]

That code would imply rear multiram not plugged in, shagged, or loom shagged.

Hard to tell which, as looks like you've use a shit code reader

Don't think so. I bought a 2.5 that was 'flat on pick up', but otherwise fine, and I eventually traced it to rear dual ram always open, its default setting. Cure was to change the vacuum reservoir. It never misfired though, gave full power when required, idled cleanly, and had no other symptons.

[ted_one]

Calling P6UL K......come in P6UL K where are you P6UL K ??.........getting boring now!!

[P6UL K]

Hello! Finally got the laptop fired up!! Sorry for keeping you all hanging on 

Well after all the its this, its that, try this, try that it turned out to be......










































A STONE!!!! About 3-5mm in size!!  :-(
Basically said stone had found its way into the fuel tank, sat in the swirl pot in the tank directly under the pump. When the car was idling or pootling around it was fine as the pump was drawing enough fuel to pick the stone up and cause any issues BUT when i drove at my normal 'Ar$e is on fire' manner the fuel pump was under more load creating more suction and drawing the stone up into the pump and blocking the impeller?

When the garage found the problem there was a massive amount of swarf sitting directly below the pump and the pump itself was buggered! The stone had chewed up the insides of the pump and really was having serious issues trying to draw fuel up, so a new pump, filter and the tank removed, drained and cleaned out and now all is good!!  Well chuffed!!  But the downside was the agro with 3 different garages in the first place, various costs with the intial 2 garages, being fobbed off by the Main Stealer (And them busting my BNIB manual gearstick I'd recently just fitted) and then the final bill!! Inc the culprit of Mr Stone....



So, Omegatron is BACK to her happy old self!

[Varche]

heck and double heck.

You can now rest easy as you have a new Omega under you.
 
This saga reminds me of my dads Escort mk1 that had overheating. Under warranty it had loads of new parts. still didn't cure intermittent overheating. Eventually after a saga about half as long as yours a bolt was found in the cylinder head (from new) that occasional blocked off a waterway.

[terry paget]

Well, I am surprised! I have had fuel feed problems, tired pumps, blocked filters or kinked pipes, but they resulted in clean idling, initial clean pulling under power, then sudden engine cut out as poor thing runs out of fuel. They never caused misfiring.

Anyway, I am glad it's cured. Well done! You certainly had us going there.

[terry paget]

I am puzzled, too. The fuel circulates, so the pump output is constant, it maintains a pressure in the injector rail controlled by a pressure control valve, returning the excess fuel to the tank. If the pump output is insufficient to meet consumption, pressure in the injector rail falls and the engine cuts out. I have experienced that, it is not uncommon. A car I bought last year behaved thus, my standard new e-bay car road test includes a sustained full power section which exposed it. Turned out to be some monkey had made a mess of a fuel filter change, added  hoses and clips, and kinked a hose.

If I see no obvious cause I next check fuel pump output, should be about a pint a minute. If less pump is knackered.

At least it is cured now. I have known cars scrapped because no-one could cure faults.

Another mystery is how that stone got into the tank. Have you got the stone?