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Omega General Help / Re: Massive Clattering Noise

« on: 25 April 2025, 09:40:27 »

So, in an ideal world I would never want to see this pipe again…

If it needs a new gasket, it's a 2x37mm. You're welcome to one - I can probably find the little packet of them in the garage, if necessary. 


https://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=149577.0;all

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Immobilizer issue

« on: 22 January 2025, 17:56:49 »

Excellent news 

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Omega General Help / Re: 1999 Omega 2.5 v6 Elite - failed oil cooler

« on: 26 November 2024, 11:44:08 »

That's a cracking result   


Failing to visualise the arrangement of the oil cooler in my head whilst sat in the office - would that simply be a male M18 x 1.5 at each end of the flexi?

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General Car Chat / Re: walk around scrapyards

« on: 24 September 2024, 10:35:49 »

1st Choice Car Spares in Accrington, as mentioned by @cam.in.head. Decent old-fashioned kinda place, but let down by the fella's total reluctance to make the stacked 2.6 Elite pickable and get some cash from it, versus wanting to sell me a different "good" engine, that had been extracted in the usual clinically sympathetic manner    Well, at least it was a nice sunny afternoon ...

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Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted / Re: WANTED : V6 non-runner/scrap engine

« on: 16 September 2024, 16:07:18 »

Much appreciated Gastro 

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Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted / WANTED : V6 non-runner/scrap engine

« on: 15 September 2024, 21:40:24 »

Evening folks,


I'm after a non-running V6 of any flavour to use for some mocking up on a project, so as to avoid taking apart my perfectly happy X30XE. Ideally still with ancillaries, even if they're questionable too, as it's the overall shape & positioning I want it for, rather than having aspirations of somehow rebuilding it. But hey, beggars/choosers, and all that...


If you've something sitting unloved in the corner of your shed (somewhere in the UK) and want the space back, let me know.


Cheers, Stu

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Omega General Help / Re: Stolen 3.2 estate

« on: 04 March 2024, 12:48:04 »

A bugger to hear that. Was the key taken as well then?

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General Car Chat / Re: New EU directive – no old car repairs?

« on: 09 February 2024, 12:19:18 »

I switched off as soon as he started talking about clouds and vapour trails...

Oh he didn't, did he...?    I must've skipped through that bit, bored at how slow he read out what was on the screen, with added exclamational facial movements 

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Omega Gallery / Re: Omega B2 3.0 V6 Executive from scrap to sunshine

« on: 07 February 2024, 13:00:59 »

Nicely done, and it's cleaned up really well ... 

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Wots this plug for?

« on: 07 February 2024, 11:39:31 »

... have a large box full of all the "unnecessary" wires, switches and relays not needed ...

I've got similar boxes... 

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Wots this plug for?

« on: 06 February 2024, 14:49:45 »

The good Doctor is, of course, quicker and more correcter    However, as I'd taken a pic out in the garage anyway, here it is for anyone who happens upon this in a Search some time down the line, with the two oxygen sensors being the only other thing on that stub of the V6 loom...

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Wots this plug for?

« on: 05 February 2024, 21:05:05 »

Nope, the ECU isn't bothered whether venting the carbon cannister actually did anything. That said, in my mind, the connector for that solenoid is away from the Lambdas. I can go look in the garage tomorrow and see what else is down there... 

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General Car Chat / Re: do we have any jetronic LE2 experts please ?

« on: 22 January 2024, 16:56:11 »

Like you I'd be sceptical of most repair places having any kind of test harness for such a thing these days, and therefore unable to say they'd "fixed" it versus they'd "opened up the box, had a poke around and done some basic electronics checks". You're needing to confirm both the hardware and the functionality, not just kicking the tyres.


All my random googling efforts last night amounted to not a lot more than what you've already got. The most extensive thing I found was your own thread on a Manta board - I won't bother post a link for you    Couldn't even see a pinout or circuit diagram. Is there a Haynes or GM service book for the Carlton/Senator/Monza? I'd searched on the "Bosch 0280220028" part number that gets banded about, before I noticed that was 2.5 and 3.0 specific and flipped over to "Bosch 0280220019" for the 2.2. I tried looking under "leerlaufregler" to see if I could pick up any of the Opel-derived mentions across Europe. Nowt though. Even searches on the usually trusty motor-talk.de proved fruitless. Maybe at a push you could track something down to at least give you a steer using all the different part codes for item 39 here - http://www.senator-monza.de/?MTPElERNZiMyETPElUTT1kJzUjNx0DRJVUTTZSM5ITM8NDOyEDf0EzM9EkUBBVT Aha, at least they have some wiring diagrams available it seems - http://www.senator-monza.de/?wM9QUSE1kJzMTPElUTT1kJ5UzM9QUSF10UmMjM9EkUBBVT


And then slight improvement as I'm typing - is this a wiring diagram for the Jetronic on a Z22E with a leerlaufregler at K40 ?    - http://www.senator-monza.de/daten/2/2/bilder/Bilder%20Einspritzanlagen/Schaltplaene2020/Z22E%20Jetronic1024.jpg It's a big assumption on my part that's even the engine/year/ECU combination you're talking about, but at a glance the pinout seems to match the numbers on the ECU casing that I've seen in pics.


Given all of that and the fact that you're progressing down the 'verify/replace the components' path, plus the fact that you've acquired a second working ECU (until it too fails), as a longer-term pastime for my own amusement I'd adopt a different tack. If you're able to measure the known inputs and outputs on a working ECU, one might perhaps be able to reverse engineer a map if it's a linear change. Then 'quickly' knock something up with an Arduino derivative to mimic that. Far, far easier if you had any kind of better source material to work from though, I grant you. But given the seeming cost of unknown provenance ECUs, I'd spend minimal cost and chuck some evenings at it, and give it a go 


Cheers, Stu

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General Car Chat / Re: Cooked it

« on: 28 June 2023, 10:59:22 »

Oh bugger 


I've a very familiar 2.6 with a fresh 12 months MOT sat here doing nothing, if you wanted to rekindle an old flame...

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Meetings, gatherings, parties etc / Re: 1st Sunday of every month - North West Meet

« on: 24 March 2023, 18:04:14 »

There's at least me too Mike - but it seems the Rainhill meet always clashes with either me being away, or my slightly more local first-Sunday-of-the-month meetup.


I'll make a concerted effort to bring one of the rustbuckets down at some point during the summer though...