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[Murph]

I thought it was about time I started a thread on my lastest acquisition.

I picked this up just before Crimbo from a friend of mine. It was his dad's who unfortunately passed away, and has been sat for two years on the driveway.



She fired up easily enough after all that time sat dormant, but had developed a mis-fire.  My friend also mentioned the car having a water leak somewhere but he had'nt figured out where, so after a dig through the internet and finding the buyers guide on here I started suspecting the HBV leading to DIS pack failure.  Other than that It'll need one tyre replacing as it sat flat for too long.

So... today I started work.

This is my first time doing much on a V6 so I'll be going slowly.  The HT leads are going to need re-routing when I'm done I think.
The DIS pack has been removed - not as bad a job as I'd feared TBH, and the HBV has been replaced.  The DIS was mounted horizontally to the back of the block - is there an easy(ish) way to remount this somewhere easier?
The replacement DIS is arriving in the morning so I'll get cracking on it tomorrow, hopefully we'll see it running.

Looking down at the front of the V...


Is that bit of corrosion down there a cause for concern?

More questions will follow... prob'ly!

[Vamps]

Love the colour, good look with the restore......

[Murph]

Well she's running... for now.

It turned out the DIS my mate bought over was the wrong one (shocking eh?) - so we temporarily  fitted it anyway in order to get the engine running and troubleshoot where necessary.

We made up a bracket and mounted the DIS next to the cruise control unit just under the air box. There's a handy cout out on the bottom of the airbox that could have been made to measure!

In order to get it running we made up a loom to extend the wiring around the engine bay - it's a bit of a bodge but it means the car can run without cutting or modifying the loom, although the O/S HT leads have to go over the top of the engine.

With that done the car runs sweetly and with the new HBV fitted no water leaks were found.

Still to do:
The brakes are very spongy so the system will be bled out until all the fluid has been changed.
The washer jets are blocked - easy fix.
Replace wiper blades.
She'll need a tyre.

That'll see her ready for MOT, then it'll be time to start on the paintwork which is a bit faded and has been key scratched, and there's moss growing around the window rubbers!

The biggest problem I have is finding time to put into it at the mo but we'll get there.

[the alarming man]

from the pics it looks quite a nice one

[amba]

Looking forward to seeing it on the roads of N.Kent.

[geoffr70]

who's is that greenmachine in the back ground?

[Murph]

That was mine.
That pic was taken just after the last owner of the estate died, back in 2009.  The green one was my first Omega which I had as a stop gap after I sold my old Carlton.  It was given to me as a project, suffering with a lack of power and intermittent cutting out.

I spent six months changing every sensor on the engine but it eventually died.  Despite all that though I rather liked it, so when the estate was offered to me I couldn't say no.

[P6UL K]

**Off topic**

Another local lad 

[albitz]

The corrosion looks like a possible leaking stat or cooler plate to me.

[Murph]

I'll be keeping an eye on that corrosion.
Apparently the car has had the heat exchanger replaced so I'm hoping that it's just a remnant of the original problem.