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Omega General Help / Re: 2.6 V6 Intermittent Starting and Rough Running

« on: 02 March 2023, 05:45:56 »

Could be worth checking for oil in the plug wells as a start, pointing to leaky rocker covers, then requiring a full clean of the breather system and new rocker gaskets etc.

How old is fuel in it? A fuel filter change wouldn't go amiss if you don't know when it was last changed. Also worth clearing the fault codes and seeing what comes up again, as those could be old stored codes. Disconnect battery for a bit to clear them.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Bye Bye Krankie !

« on: 20 February 2023, 06:54:27 »

Maybe the leadership contest will collapse and she'll be there for us for evermore! Wasn't really celebrating because the problems she created (that we'll all pay for) are still very much with us and the SNP look like they want to continue down that path, it's just one deck chair moved on the titanic that's all.

Apparently she was called seaweed at Uni because even the tide wouldn't take her out!

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Omega General Help / Re: 2.6 metallic "clink" sound on start up

« on: 15 February 2023, 12:51:58 »

Cool, thanks for all the replies, I think now that I'm feeling this rubbing from the cover, it be worth investigating the TB. I don't think I could rest until I had tbh. Won't be doing it right now as car still in Winter mode but will get to it in the next Month or so and see what's what.

Luckily I heard the sound it was only for a few secs, you wouldn't hear it unless you were standing at the engine bay right after start up.

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Omega General Help / Re: 2.6 metallic "clink" sound on start up

« on: 14 February 2023, 22:24:35 »

So bit of an update, but not really positively identifed the issue. I decided to take the aux belt off and check/spin the pulleys before it started, nothing that I could feel or hear wrong, apart from that slight play in the tensioner pulley.

Then started it up without the belt first to see if I could hear anything, nothing, then put belt back on to see if the noise came back, it didn't. I was half expecting it to, but then thought maybe playing about with the tensioner moved something in it, if it is that at fault.

After that I noticed a sort of low dull repeated scraping from what sounded like behind the belt cover, and when I put my hand on it, I could feel this dull repeating scraping sound.

So, not got to the source of the original problem, but now got another, and it sounds deeper this time! Need to do a bit more digging.

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Cars for Sale & wanted / Re: Manual 2.6 Elite for sale

« on: 11 February 2023, 10:41:53 »

Ooft that price went up  Since it's a manual hope it doesn't go to someone that will slam dunk it and do doughnuts in it all day 

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Cars for Sale & wanted / Re: Manual 2.6 Elite for sale

« on: 10 February 2023, 03:12:28 »

Seen a few posts through car forums that people are getting certificates of conformity from the manufacturer for the ULEZ thing, I don't really get what they mean though, as is the ULEZ not saying your car has to meet euro 6, or is it euro 4 emissions levels for petrol, which is what they test at MOT, so what difference is a certificate of conformity going to make?

Example post from Porsche forum:

https://www.porscheclubgb.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=1093872

Another: https://wiki.mag-uk.org/images/f/fd/How_to_get_Certificate_of_ULEZ_exemption.pdf

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Cars for Sale & wanted / Re: Manual 2.6 Elite for sale

« on: 09 February 2023, 00:43:27 »

Sure if he put it on some of the facebook omega groups it would get snapped up, guys always on there looking for manuals.

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Cars for Sale & wanted / Re: Manual 2.6 Elite for sale

« on: 09 February 2023, 00:41:33 »

I'm going to pretend I didn't read this is being scrapped 

You could always buy it 

I would if I had the space, I'm all omega'd out!

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Cars for Sale & wanted / Re: Manual 2.6 Elite for sale

« on: 08 February 2023, 19:34:25 »

I'm going to pretend I didn't read this is being scrapped 

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General Car Chat / Re: 2012 mundano oil and fuel filter change

« on: 07 February 2023, 18:34:34 »

Well it's never had an oil change and fuel filter change since he got it and that was FOUR years ago, and lord knows how long before that  better get the scraper out for the rubberised oil in the sump!

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Omega General Help / Re: leak from my power steering

« on: 07 February 2023, 18:14:42 »

I had a sweat from the top up bottle pipe the jubilee underneath was loose, no idea how it got loose but tightened it up and stopped the sweat.

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General Car Chat / Re: 2012 mundano oil and fuel filter change

« on: 06 February 2023, 15:48:54 »

On my 2008 2.2 TDCi the fuel filter is at the front o/s and as you say is a plastic container thingy. 

I always fill the new filter with diesel before fitting and then it will start and self bleed. 

That's what I was suspecting thanks, that it is up front rather than underneath.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Santander Scam

« on: 06 February 2023, 14:06:39 »

For scam/phising emails, the email marketing software knows you've interacted with an email so I just hover over the sender to see if it's cloaked email adress, then if it is just leave it without opening it or moving it to spam, after a couple of weeks just delete it, by that times the spammer will have moved to a new campaign of spamming people, as they continually create new sender email addresses to spam from.

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General Car Chat / 2012 mundano oil and fuel filter change

« on: 06 February 2023, 13:52:20 »

Hi All

Got an oil and filter change to do on a mate's mondeo diesel and had a look at it the other day noticed you need a 27mm shallow socket to get the top of the oil filter cover off, the oil filter is a paper filter insert, and is situated on the front of the block, slighty to the left of the downpipe as you look at the front of the car, could get a 1/2" socket on it but not with ratchet on it as well. I think it needs to be 3/4" drive as it's a bit of a tight fit for a 1/2" ratchet.

Not had a look at the fuel filter yet, watched a video on the tube about this and it seems the filter is under the back near the tank, and you have to manually bleed the feed to the pump once you've changed it (There's no primer apparently - who designed that  ). However looking at his it looks like there is some sort of filter container thing on drivers side just under the big plastic cover on the engine.

Anyone know for certain if the filter is indeed at the back or can it be in the engine bay in these as well depending on year/model etc?

Thanks

G
 

 

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Omega General Help / Re: Barn find starts but then stops

« on: 06 February 2023, 13:42:26 »

Hi Dave

Where does that fitment on the end of the pipe go or does that come off, is there a push on clip on the in tank pipe or is i tjubillee clips or those spring clips?

Had a look on the parts diagram and it doesn't show any type of clips I can see.

https://opel.catalogs-parts.com/#{client:1;page:part;lang:ru;category:car;catalog:v94;group:g;groupsub:0;subgroup:23-1}

The pipe doesn't come with the black plastic fitting shown on the ebay listing 
both ends of the pipe have about 30mm of strait (NOT Convoluted) pipe ,1 x 9mm ID ,1 x 8mm ID
the rest of the pipe is convoluted /corrugated ,making it very flexible .
you need to gently heat (boiling water is OK, NOT a naked flame  ) the pipe to get it to slide on the pump and outlet .
standard fuel line clips to secure in place 

this pipe is a great "off the shelf solution " 

Thanks, I've just got one as it will be a good piece of kit to have whenever I change that pipe, which I will do probably sooner rather than later.

G