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Omega General Help / Re: Help! Error code P1700
« on: 12 May 2022, 06:02:11 »
Haven't had a wee mouse in there nibbling some of the wires? I always wonder if that is likely the cause with these strange problems.
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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Amber indicator bulbs
« on: 05 May 2022, 21:17:06 »
Now changed, and I'll rub off the remaining amber flakes on the old bulbs and keep those as spares, how's that for penny pinching!
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Omega General Help / Re: Vacuum valve alternative part numbers?
« on: 05 May 2022, 07:09:00 »Have you tried 90466214, sure that's the one listed for the x30
Aha, that code throws up a few more suspects from across the GM groupFunny how the supplier engraves one code, but the book lists something else - probably copied down wrong off a smudged fax or something twenty years ago!
Turns out I've also got one under the bonnet of my 9-5 Aero...
There are some right weird anomolies with some GM part numbers, although at least they did do a relatively good part numbers system overall, and stamped most of their parts with the number. That's right Saab used the part as well.
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Omega General Help / Re: Vacuum valve alternative part numbers?
« on: 04 May 2022, 22:34:04 »
Have you tried 90466214, sure that's the one listed for the x30 here - item 10:
https://vauxhall.catalogs-parts.com/#{client:1;page:part;lang:en;category:car;catalog:v94;group:g;groupsub:0;subgroup:58-1}#detail=90466214#10
https://vauxhall.catalogs-parts.com/#{client:1;page:part;lang:en;category:car;catalog:v94;group:g;groupsub:0;subgroup:58-1}#detail=90466214#10
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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Amber indicator bulbs
« on: 02 May 2022, 07:52:24 »
MOT up this week, thought they looked very white so decided to change them.
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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Amber indicator bulbs
« on: 01 May 2022, 20:45:30 »just a standard bau15s amber indicator bulb.(offset pins)i have found however that different makes seem to have a differing level of amber coating. ie some are more orange than others !
Thanks, that's just the luck of the draw isn't it, how good a coating you get, hopefully they're better than the ones I got at the moment.
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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Amber indicator bulbs
« on: 01 May 2022, 15:12:49 »
Hi
Needing to replace the rear indicator bulbs as they're almost clear of the amber coating, is it just a standard amber indicator bulb I need, any specific code for them?
Thanks
G
Needing to replace the rear indicator bulbs as they're almost clear of the amber coating, is it just a standard amber indicator bulb I need, any specific code for them?
Thanks
G
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Omega General Help / Re: Diff Refurb/Removal
« on: 25 April 2022, 07:27:13 »
Thanks all, will look at taking it out sometime this year to get done.
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Omega General Help / Re: Diff Refurb/Removal
« on: 23 April 2022, 06:41:39 »
There's a big engineering shop in Glasgow that do anything and everything, I'm sure they'd be able to do change a seal and bearings in a diff.
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Omega General Help / Re: Diff Refurb/Removal
« on: 22 April 2022, 16:27:24 »The Diff weighs more that Vanessa Feltz so watch your self when dropping it out !!
Just drop it on my belly, be like a kid jumping on a trampoline!
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Omega General Help / Re: Diff Refurb/Removal
« on: 22 April 2022, 16:26:05 »You're unlikely to get the preload correct when you rebuild it, so it makes sense to get it done by a dedicated place.
A starting point would be to actually put some fluid in it.
It's got a top up recently, had a fight getting the filler plug out had to grind down a allen key socket to fit. Yeah I'm not confident doing it myself, especially lying in my back underneath it, plus I've not got the torque to tighten it up again, think it was a high torque if I remember rightly.
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Omega General Help / Diff Refurb/Removal
« on: 22 April 2022, 05:05:19 »
Hi All
When I was out last night I was sure I could hear the diff a bit more than I usually do, I do have selective hearing so it may be that (!). It's not at the stage yet that you always heard the car coming before you seen it, like the carltons were famous for.
The diff pinion is leaking and I was thinking rather than try and do that myself, a job I've never done, and I don't have proper ramps (to give me the leverage length for purchase to remove the pinion nut), I was thinking wouldn't it be easier to just drop the diff out and send it to a machine shop to get new bearings and seals, is it easy enough to remove or is it a subframe out jobby?
Imagine with the continual low oil level that the bearings are probably worth replacing anyway.
Cheers
G
When I was out last night I was sure I could hear the diff a bit more than I usually do, I do have selective hearing so it may be that (!). It's not at the stage yet that you always heard the car coming before you seen it, like the carltons were famous for.
The diff pinion is leaking and I was thinking rather than try and do that myself, a job I've never done, and I don't have proper ramps (to give me the leverage length for purchase to remove the pinion nut), I was thinking wouldn't it be easier to just drop the diff out and send it to a machine shop to get new bearings and seals, is it easy enough to remove or is it a subframe out jobby?
Imagine with the continual low oil level that the bearings are probably worth replacing anyway.
Cheers
G
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Omega General Help / Re: 3.2 Running lumpy.
« on: 19 April 2022, 21:12:05 »Why do you need to unplug the injectors
You don't even need to undo the fuel lines.
If it has been disturbed, has the vacuum pipe to the brake servo been checked for leaks at either end?
Was thinking of the cam cover gasket process, but it wouldn't go that far now that I think on it.
http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=90542.0
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General Car Chat / Re: ACTUAL IMPORTANT ADVICE
« on: 18 April 2022, 17:10:06 »
Usually use Tyrolit cutting discs after a few of those cheapy ones popped on me. Yes I was wearing safety gogglies but was just wondering if a part of it had impaled itself in my jugular!
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Omega Gallery / Re: Just Bought an Elite
« on: 18 April 2022, 10:23:42 »
The N/S track arm is now replaced. I've also started cleaning the headlights with wet & dry working up the grits 800 > 3000. Decided to take the rear wheels off and check everything around and underneath there, and give all the nuts and bolts a scoosh of WD. While I had the wheels off I squeezed the rear caliper pistons bak to check they weren't seizing.
When I had the rears off I released the handbrake and put in N so I could rotate rear wheels. Just a note when you remove the block of wood from the front wheel make sure you're back in P and handbrake on! My driveway has a slight incline near the end of it, so my other omega was sitting down this incline, and the elite at the top of it, just on the edge.
When I pulled the block out I forgot about handbrake so as I was kicking it back with my feet it was getting caught again every time, not realising the car was inching forward slowly onto the block again. Once I'd completely removed the block, I'd walked away to do something else, and the elite rolled forward but luckily I had my open toolbox about a foot in front of it, which stopped it about 2 inches from the bumper of the CD!
Even if it had hit the CD there wasn't any serious distance (4 feet maybe) to gather speed and the incline is mild (probably a few percent) so would probably have just bounced off it.
When I had the rears off I released the handbrake and put in N so I could rotate rear wheels. Just a note when you remove the block of wood from the front wheel make sure you're back in P and handbrake on! My driveway has a slight incline near the end of it, so my other omega was sitting down this incline, and the elite at the top of it, just on the edge.
When I pulled the block out I forgot about handbrake so as I was kicking it back with my feet it was getting caught again every time, not realising the car was inching forward slowly onto the block again. Once I'd completely removed the block, I'd walked away to do something else, and the elite rolled forward but luckily I had my open toolbox about a foot in front of it, which stopped it about 2 inches from the bumper of the CD!
Even if it had hit the CD there wasn't any serious distance (4 feet maybe) to gather speed and the incline is mild (probably a few percent) so would probably have just bounced off it.