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Omega General Help / ambient lights

« on: 09 January 2009, 09:23:48 »

Does any Omega have ambient lights in them, seen a Bora with them. I think I read the very last ones made had a yellow light that came from the front interior light, is that true?

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Omega General Help / New Exhaust Manifold Gasket

« on: 09 January 2009, 09:21:59 »

Can anyone confirm that you can only get the new type of exhaust manifold gasket (multimetal type) from a vx dealer and their not gonna give you a old type one that were originally fitted at the factory?

Reason I ask is that I'm about to change the exhaust manifold gasket on my car and the type I got was was black in colour and is made up of 3 layers of metal, does this sound like the correct one?

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Omega General Help / Re: auto gearbox rear seal

« on: 08 January 2009, 16:32:56 »

I have a 1998 2.5 V6 omega auto. the oil is leaking out were the propshaft and gearbox meet, has anybody else had this problem, what was the cure and how hard was it to do please

Yes, I just changed my one when I was changing my autobox fluid, had fluid leaking from the drive flange seal and was being splattered all over the area around where the prop and drive flange meet.

I think you need to drain the transmission fluid or it might leak out the back when you prise the old seal off, not 100%. You also need to get a 30mm deep socket (£7.50 from halfords   ), a new drive flange oil seal and some transmission fluid if it needs to be drained. Might be worth the effort changing the fluid anyway, not sure.

Anyway you have to remove the six bolts that secure the prop from the rubber ring and the drive flange to the rubber ring. Prise the prop from the gearbox (drive flange, around 1 1/2") remove the drive flange nut, shake the drive flange off the teeth (was easy on my one) and remove drive flange. Prise off old seal, apply new seal. Reassemble everything 100NM on drive flange nut.

Sounds easier than it is, think it would take around 2 hours if you dont have to drain fluid.

Hope it helps

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Omega General Help / Re: Trans fluid drip

« on: 03 January 2009, 18:23:59 »

Just saw a few drips of what I think is trans fluid on my garage floor after an overnight park.  Saw one drip about a month ago (and ignored it).

How is this likely to be leaking?  Where from?  What are the possible fixes?

Thanks for the guidance.

Steve

Steve take a look underneath, jack the car up and take a look for fluid splatter.

Currently working on changing the drive flange seal on my transmission, absolute bugger getting the old one off  
 
ok rant over

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Omega General Help / Re: Grey Sealant cure time

« on: 05 January 2009, 12:30:39 »

Cheers Mark

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Omega General Help / Grey Sealant cure time

« on: 05 January 2009, 11:16:30 »

Can someone tell me how long it takes for the grey sealant to cure, I'm planning to use it around my water pump to stop the seal from leaking, need to know how long to wait before I full my system up again and crank it up?

Thanks

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Omega General Help / Re: Missing transmission magnet

« on: 02 January 2009, 20:04:29 »

Tim, thanks for the offer, was planning to get my car back on the road by monday. Will look around my collection of bits and pieces to see if I can find an alternative. Cheers

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Omega General Help / Missing transmission magnet

« on: 02 January 2009, 17:45:05 »

Hey car fans, I've managed to get around to changing the fluid in my automatic gearbox, tricky and messy job but I'm glad I changed it fluid looked really brown and think it was overdue.

Anyway when I took the main transmission sump off I noticed that my magnet was missing from the bottom of the sump, the ATF was changed by the previous owner, I guess they must have chucked it wondering what it was  

Anyway do I need a magnet? If so can a small substitute one do? Really need to get the car back on the road for work on Monday and don't have time or the weather to wait until I get a new one from JPat?

Thanks

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Omega General Help / Re: Water Pump leaking again

« on: 31 December 2008, 15:30:51 »

The one I replaced when I done my timing belt was an aftermarket one from Autovaux, that one leaked.

But the one I've just fitted is a VX one, unless VX is started supplying cheap and nasty components and hence the problems I'm having  

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Omega General Help / Re: Water Pump leaking again

« on: 31 December 2008, 14:22:49 »

Smooth as a babies bum, used a very fine sandpaper to clean it up and the block is solid. I'm a bit shocked it leaking again. I guess I'll have to take it apart and apply more grey sealant this time. Can anyone confirm the torque values for the bolts?

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Omega General Help / Re: Water Pump leaking again

« on: 31 December 2008, 14:00:06 »

Are you sure its the pump and not the stat.....

100% sure, a while back the plate covering the oil cooler was leaking coolant, so the plate and thermostat was taken out and resealed with nice grey sealant, all nice and dry.

Is it ok to use grey sealant around the water pump Mark?

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Omega General Help / Water Pump leaking again

« on: 31 December 2008, 13:30:09 »

Changed my water pump when I done my timing belt in Feb using the quality DVD I got from here.  

Anyway I found recently that the back of the pump was leaking. I've just changed the pump again with a new seal. I even used a very small amount of grey sealent to make sure all was tight and sealed. I've just checked today and its leaking again.

I used new pump bolts, seal and torqued to correct values and cleaned the surface on the block to make sure all was flat, but I'm open to suggestions on what the problem might be before I have to strip it down again?

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Omega General Help / Re: Automatic Gearbox Drive Flange Nut Torque Value

« on: 31 December 2008, 10:14:50 »

100nm

Cheers    

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Omega General Help / Automatic Gearbox Drive Flange Nut Torque Value

« on: 31 December 2008, 10:04:43 »

Looking for a torque value for the nut that attaches the drive flange to the automatic gearbox, I am about to change the oil seal around the drive flange (the thing that comes out the gearbox and attaches to the prop ?) but I don't know what value the nut has to be when I reassemble it, does anyone have a value?

Thanks

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Omega General Help / Re: Replacing 16" alloy with 17"

« on: 23 December 2008, 15:56:08 »

Will the speedo not be affected having a larger tyre. Think I read that somewhere since the tyre is larger and hence takes a longer time to do a full rotation compared with a 16" one. Ok its only an inch but it makes the difference speedo wise.