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Omega General Help / Re: Source of oil leak - V6 Elite Estate

« on: 24 June 2007, 17:52:27 »

Interesting.  I was told the sump plug washer was the right one, although it came from a factor rather than Vx.  When I last cleaned everything off and took the bagpipes/aux belt etc out (as we discussed), oil definitely appeared to be coming out from somewhere above and behind the alternator...

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Omega General Help / Re: won't start following fuel filter change

« on: 24 June 2007, 17:54:23 »

a nice cheap fix then. So sort out the multirams, and its a good'un?

See gen chat.. if all this works, I'll have fixed it for less than a fiver...

 

Doh!    You live and learn!

What pipe was blocking the multirams then?

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Omega General Help / Re: Fuel Filter Change

« on: 18 April 2007, 12:58:45 »

Right-ho . Job for the weekend sorted.    or maybe I'll do the AC lamps... decisions..

Thanks chaps.

Ian, let me know how you get on shifting the clips...I tried to do mine a few weeks back, couldn't get the clips released at all!

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Omega General Help / Re: Oil leak 3.0V6 - above/behind alternator?

« on: 17 April 2007, 22:26:21 »

Whoops, ran out of time on Sunday to look at the cam sprockets.

Interestingly the car has leaked oil since the alternator was dropped and replaced to change the knock sensor wire - the cam cover gaskets were done a fair few weeks later because that's what I thought was causing the oil leak!  But I agree that there could be black sealant in the wrong place...

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Omega General Help / Re: Oil leak 3.0V6 - above/behind alternator?

« on: 14 April 2007, 10:18:46 »

Cam cover gaskets were done a few weeks ago, however car started leaking before then.  Pretty sure ClarCE put the goo in the right place, he's had plenty of practice  

There's no oil weeping around the top cambelt cover bolts coming through to the outside, but I will loosen them up tomorrow to look at the sprockets.  Definitely coming out somewhere behind the alternator though.  There's a small pool on the offside of the sump 'lip' as you look at it from the front.  I believe that airflow through the engine bay then deposits the drips at the back, off the sump plug.  Sump plug is definitely leak-free...

Interestingly, I took the car this morning to pick up a wardrobe for my wife (fair swap...) and upon opening the bonnet when I had stopped (20 mile run), there was a little oil smoke from below the oil filler.  We checked the seal when the cam cover gaskets were done and it seemed OK.  There's a wire/pipe just behind and below the oil filter which seemed a bit oily yesterday, could be related?

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Omega General Help / Re: Oil leak 3.0V6 - above/behind alternator?

« on: 13 April 2007, 16:52:56 »

Will have a try on Sunday and report back - presumably this is a big job if there is oil around the cams?

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Omega General Help / Re: Oil leak 3.0V6 - above/behind alternator?

« on: 13 April 2007, 14:33:08 »

I'll have a try, but probably not until next weekend now.  Was thinking of removing aux belt and tensioner, bagpipes etc to take a closer look from the top...

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Omega General Help / Oil leak 3.0V6 - above/behind alternator?

« on: 13 April 2007, 14:27:56 »

After spending most of the morning with the car up on axle stands, Gunk, and a hosepipe (!) I think I've spotted where the oil is leaking from on my Elite.

It appears to be coming from behind the alternator, dripping down onto the lip of the sump, and then onto the floor when that 'fills up'.  When being driven, there is a smell of hot oil too, so I assume it is getting sucked onto the exhaust manifold.

The alternator had to be removed when I changed the offside knock sensor a few weeks back, and took quite a few whacks with the hammer to free off it's mountings.  Coincidentally, the oil leak started when it all went back together...which is why ClarCE and I were puzzled that my breathers weren't blocked and the cam covers didn't appear to leak when we changed them recently.

Has anyone else suffered such a leak, or knows how it could be fixed?  Does the lower alternator bolt pull together the top part of the sump, or something?  I had a go at tightening it again, but if you have taken one out you'll know it's a swine to get a 15mm spanner on the back nut to tighten up the E14 bolt at the front...

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Omega General Help / Re: Central locking dead...

« on: 07 April 2007, 16:06:26 »

Phew.  Presumably it would still be preferable to get an ECU with compatible remote as I assume my own would need to be recoded?

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Omega General Help / Re: Central locking dead...

« on: 07 April 2007, 15:35:52 »

Err...dunno.  Early car (Jan '95), has a red pip next to the sunroof control, remote plipper is separate to the key and just has one button, with a red LED that flashes when you press it.

Didn't know that the central locking ECU doubles as the immobiliser ECU    Guess I have an expensive time to replace, then?

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Omega General Help / Re: Central locking dead...

« on: 07 April 2007, 15:01:35 »

AHA!!!  I now see the problem...the ECU is completely missing  

Luckily one of my neighbours is hoarding a number of 2.5TDs, so we tried taking off the 'Megamos' ECU from his 96N CDX, however, the pins are different!

I'm off to see if anyone is breaking one with a 25-pin (13 pins on the top row, 12 on the bottom) ECU, then we could be in business...

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Omega General Help / Re: Central locking dead...

« on: 05 April 2007, 19:36:42 »

Righto, had a go at this earlier.

Got the door panel off, gave the connector that takes the wires from the door handle down to the c/l motor a clean, and also the connector into the c/l motor.  No joy.

Managed to remove the driver's footwell panel, where I found a large multipin connector.  But nothing that looked like a central locking ECU.  What does it look like?

Oddly enough I found a large multipin connector (like the lower one of the two that are joined together on the inside of the wing in the footwell) that appears to be connected to wires going towards the rear of the car...but it wasn't connected to anything, and I couldn't find anything to connect it to.  Suspicious?

I should have taken a picture really...would it help?

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Omega General Help / Re: Central locking dead...

« on: 10 March 2007, 21:33:42 »

You're a gentleman sir - I will give it a go!

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Omega General Help / Re: Central locking dead...

« on: 10 March 2007, 21:28:14 »

Aha.  Do I take the cubby out, or does the whole kick panel come off somehow?  Mr Haynes is suspiciously quiet on such matters  

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Omega General Help / Central locking dead...

« on: 10 March 2007, 21:22:11 »

OK, with the cam covers to do once I get the parts and ClarCE to come round and offer advice, I'm turning my attention to my inoperative central locking.

The central locking is completely inoperable by either the key (in either front door or the tailgate) and the remote, although I have tried changing the batteries and 'reprogramming' the unit by holding the remote 8in from the red blob next to the sunroof switch.

Fuse 20 is OK (which according to my manual covers the central locking) as the heated seats in the back work, which also work off the same fuse.

I've read in the Haynes manual that the control module lives in the driver's side footwell kick panel, so I was thinking of getting at that with the electrical contact cleaner (hey - worked on the MID after all  ) - is that behind the little cubbybox to the right of the steering column?  How do I get that out so I can see the control module?  Is it likely to be this, or is there an actuator in the driver's door?  Or is there another likely cause?