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Newbie Welcome Area / Re: Hi all!
« on: 30 May 2014, 19:38:32 »
Hello and welcome to the forum, plenty of good friendly help here. My own 2.2 estate has served me well for the last six years with very few issues.
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General Car Chat / Premature Cam sensor failure
« on: 27 May 2014, 21:23:14 »
I replaced the cam sensor on my wife's 1998 1.8 Vectra estate just after I bought it 6 years ago and it has been fine since until 2 months ago when it failed, not a bad run for a cam sensor. I replaced it with a genuine Siemens part (awkward job on the fwd Veccy) and all seemed fine until the wretched thing failed again last week. When I removed the offending item there was a deep radial scuff mark on the plastic sensor body where the camshaft pulley had been rubbing against it. When checking it against the original it was obvious that the metal blade was slightly bent causing the plastic body to rub against the pulley when bolted in position. I had not checked this when fitting so be warned that even Siemens units can be badly formed and check the shape before fitting as once in position it is hard to check the clearance.
I hope the sensor I fitted this time lasts another six years.
I hope the sensor I fitted this time lasts another six years.
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Omega General Help / Re: H.P. aircon valve fitting
« on: 27 May 2014, 21:03:18 »
I had another try at shifting the valve this weekend but still no joy. A 15mm spanner or socket will not fit it or the new replacement and a 16mm is far too large for either as is a 5/8 AF. I tried an adjustable spanner but that just spun and started to round off the already minimal form on the flimsy ally fitting. Did not dare to try the mole grips due to rather limited space and fear of sheering the whole thing off. Anyone got any bright ideas what to try now?
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Omega General Help / Re: H.P. aircon valve fitting
« on: 22 May 2014, 18:05:06 »
Rust buster is an American product, a sort of superfine lubricant which penetrates and frees off just about anything so hopefully even ally, should find out later.
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Omega General Help / Re: H.P. aircon valve fitting
« on: 21 May 2014, 21:02:58 »
Thanks for the advice, I has a quick try earlier this evening but it seems stuck fast so I gave it a quick squirt of rust buster and will try again tomorrow.
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Omega General Help / H.P. aircon valve fitting
« on: 20 May 2014, 21:55:02 »
I have finally decided to replace the H.P. aircon valve on my car but I cannot find a spanner to fit the thing. A 17mm spanner fits the hex fitting underneath it but nothing fits the valve itself either mm or AF. All my spanners and sockets are too small or too large so before I resort to mole grips and brute force does anyone here know what to use? Any advice would be most welcome.
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Omega General Help / Re: Real world MPG
« on: 20 May 2014, 20:55:35 »
My 2.2 auto estate is approximately 25mpg average around town and the best I have ever managed was 35.7mpg on a long motorway trip trying to keep to 70 and driving as carefully as possible. My old 1995 2.0 auto estate managed over 40mpg on a couple of similar trips before I wrote it off.
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Omega General Help / Re: how can a get my door open?
« on: 20 May 2014, 20:44:50 »
If you wind the window down it is possible to use a length of 2.3mm dia. weld rod bent a to a hook at the end to first pull off the brown plastic cover and then pull the catch open. It is fiddly and you need a small torch to illuminate the door interior. Also it really helps to have a spare catch to see how the lock operates so that you know where to locate the hook to open the door. I had to do exactly the same last year and it took me approximately 15 minutes to open the door this way. The only damage was to the brown plastic cover which can be superglued back together.
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Omega General Help / Re: Sealey Oil Extractor Pump
« on: 11 April 2014, 21:59:26 »
I have a Sealey 6 litre oil extractor and it is very useful for the autobox and rear axle but i still prefer to drain the engine oil using the sump plug.
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General Discussion Area / Re: plumbing/heating question
« on: 16 November 2013, 20:41:56 »
The 22mm brass valve bodies were exactly the same as the originals complete with same EML part number. How long the new Sunvic motors last is any ones guess, although I will keep the originals as spares, replacing the micro-switches as a precaution because they can fail same as the ones in Omega central locking motors.
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General Discussion Area / Re: plumbing/heating question
« on: 15 November 2013, 21:36:08 »
I recently bought a pair of 22mm Sunvic 2 port motorised valves to replace the Honeywell ones that were starting to leak on my system for £60 the pair on ebay and they work perfectly.
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General Car Chat / Re: Black ''tar'' people used to paint on the underside of the car...
« on: 14 November 2013, 21:04:09 »
Of course they were Heinz beans, nothing but the best for my old Victor, in fact it still had the original exhaust that exited through the rear bumper (rare even in 1970) and many a repair was carried out using bean tins and jubilee clips. Eventually the whole lot fell off on the A3 late one night coming back from a party in London and the noise was simply amazing, just like a low flying aircraft! I managed to crawl back to Bognor virtually deaf dumb and blind without seeing a single police car but leaving a trail of house lights going on in my wake. A trip to the scrap yard the following day with my father yielded an exhaust system cobbled out of pipes and boxes from a variety of cars for about £1 iirc. I learnt my craft on that car and still run cars as cheap as possible now.
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General Car Chat / Re: Black ''tar'' people used to paint on the underside of the car...
« on: 13 November 2013, 20:43:46 »
I once had a 1957 Vauxhall Victor that I bodged with baked bean tins and pop rivets over virtually all that was left of the floor pan and then disguised it all with a thick coat of the old black bitumen underseal. Happy carefree days!
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General Car Chat / Re: Best mpg from our 2.2
« on: 11 October 2013, 20:47:57 »
That was a good result. The best I have ever managed on my 2.2 auto estate was 37mpg on an early morning run to Colchester keeping just to the speed limit. The return journey was just over 33mpg but the traffic and temperature had increased by then. Normally I struggle to get more than 23mpg with mixed driving.
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General Car Chat / Re: Cars your folks had when your were a nipper
« on: 27 September 2013, 23:22:37 »
My Dad was a garage mechanic in the 1950's when I was very young and we had a fabulous range of pre-war cars that were cheap trade ins including Morris, Austins and Fords of all types some of which he had for only a few weeks before changing them. I do remember him having the chance of a huge Lagonda V12 and refusing it because it was too thirsty! Unfortunately he then started to buy cheap new cars including a Goggomobil, a Gordon 3 wheeler (which my Mum managed to roll into a field) and a BMW 3 wheeler bubble car all of which I hated, preferring the larger old cars. Since then he has owned more cars than I care to remember and is still driving an automatic Nissan Micra at 93 years old!