Omega Owners Forum
Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: tigers_gonads on 08 December 2015, 11:38:40
-
Doing some work under the bonnet, replacing various lpg pipes and emptying the 2.4.6 coil pack of water ect.
In the process of replacing some perished pipework going from the vaporizer to the PS02 lpg pressure / manifold vacuum sensor, i've gone and snapped one of the vacuum pipes off the piggin sensor :-[ >:(
Anybody got a good one lying around somewhere or were is the best place to get one ?
-
Tinley Tech, at a price, or maybe keep an eye on Ebay? :-\
-
Tinley Tech, at a price, or maybe keep an eye on Ebay? :-\
I've just seen it on Tinleys site Kev.
Is 55 quid plus delivery about right for this part ?
-
Found it here for 46 quid plus p&p :-\
http://www.autogas-lpg.co.uk/4_stag
-
Tinley Tech, at a price, or maybe keep an eye on Ebay? :-\
I've just seen it on Tinleys site Kev.
Is 55 quid plus delivery about right for this part ?
Sounds a touch expensive, but it will be on your door step tomorrow :y
-
Tinley Tech, at a price, or maybe keep an eye on Ebay? :-\
I've just seen it on Tinleys site Kev.
Is 55 quid plus delivery about right for this part ?
Sounds a touch expensive, but it will be on your door step tomorrow :y
True that :-\
Decisions decisions :-\
Any of you rich gits want to treat me for Christmas :-* :-* ;D ;D
-
Gone for the one on the www.lpgshop.co.uk site.
A saving at nearly 15 quid over Tinley cannot be sniffed at sadly.
I'll let you lot know how things work out
Cheers lads :)
-
Just looking at the removed sensor.
If I block up the broken vacuum side with a blob of Araldite them stick a T piece on the other and connect the vacuum pipes back up, it looks to me like it would give the same readings :y
Am I looking at this right OR am I dreaming here :-\
-
Tinley Tech, at a price, or maybe keep an eye on Ebay? :-\
I've just seen it on Tinleys site Kev.
Is 55 quid plus delivery about right for this part ?
Sounds a touch expensive, but it will be on your door step tomorrow :y
True that :-\
Decisions decisions :-\
Any of you rich gits want to treat me for Christmas :-* :-* ;D ;D
(http://www.directsmiley.com/cat/10/10_12_8.gif)
Sorry, spending all my dosh on lycra and brewery parts.
The rest I will just waste ;D
-
Oh, hang on.. You might be right. I was thinking of my PS-01 sensor, but I believe the PS-02 is the one that sits inline with the LPG feed and the smaller vacuum pipe is "straight through"?
-
Tinley Tech, at a price, or maybe keep an eye on Ebay? :-\
I've just seen it on Tinleys site Kev.
Is 55 quid plus delivery about right for this part ?
Sounds a touch expensive, but it will be on your door step tomorrow :y
True that :-\
Decisions decisions :-\
Any of you rich gits want to treat me for Christmas :-* :-* ;D ;D
(http://www.directsmiley.com/cat/10/10_12_8.gif)
Sorry, spending all my dosh on lycra and brewery parts.
The rest I will just waste ;D
Sniff sniff, good job i'm not easily offended :P ;D ;D ;D
-
Just looking at the removed sensor.
If I block up the broken vacuum side with a blob of Araldite them stick a T piece on the other and connect the vacuum pipes back up, it looks to me like it would give the same readings :y
Am I looking at this right OR am I dreaming here :-\
Measure the diameter of the snapped off pipe and drill the main housing 5mm using a drill the same diameter as the measured piece.
A wipe of super glue around the snapped part and push inside the drilled housing.
Job jobbed.
-
Oh, hang on.. You might be right. I was thinking of my PS-01 sensor, but I believe the PS-02 is the one that sits inline with the LPG feed and the smaller vacuum pipe is "straight through"?
Yup, that's the one :y :y
Tbh, the knackered sensor is about 5 years old now and has been on 2 different cars. Even for a 3.2 (with my right foot) the economy is shite.
I'm starting to think that due to wear, this sensor isn't performing as it should.
I'll dig out a t piece and some araldite and keep this one as a spare.
The new one should be here in the next day or two via DPD so i'll see how it runs when fitted.
One thing I have noticed is that over the last 12 months, i've had to tweak the KME Gold reducer quite a few times to keep the pressure about the 1.1 Bar mark because it has been dropping off :-\
Maybe it wasn't the old pipework but the sensor :-\
-
Just looking at the removed sensor.
If I block up the broken vacuum side with a blob of Araldite them stick a T piece on the other and connect the vacuum pipes back up, it looks to me like it would give the same readings :y
Am I looking at this right OR am I dreaming here :-\
Measure the diameter of the snapped off pipe and drill the main housing 5mm using a drill the same diameter as the measured piece.
A wipe of super glue around the snapped part and push inside the drilled housing.
Job jobbed.
It snapped off right at the base Mark
I don't think there is enough left to drill it out hence the t piece and araldite plan :(
Thanks anyway :)
-
Filter changed in teh past few years?
-
Filter changed in teh past few years?
Yup, about 18 months ago :y
-
Could have been a leak then. Maybe the plastic was already cracked and you didn't notice it. :-\
-
I've had a few plastic parts of my system fail. They are generally pretty poor quality and have to survive a bit of heat. :-\
-
Could have been a leak then. Maybe the plastic was already cracked and you didn't notice it. :-\
Possible :-\
Even when running on petrol, it has always seemed heavy on juice :-\
If i've had a vacuum leak there, it would answer a lot of questions that have been floating around since i've had it :-\
-
I've had a few plastic parts of my system fail. They are generally pretty poor quality and have to survive a bit of heat. :-\
My sensor is inline between the KME Gold and the 2,4,6 bank so it was tie wrapped to the front of the across engine cable tray along with the pipework for that side.
It does get pretty warm around there :-\
It will have to wait now though, just been told i've got to travel upto Carlisle tomorrow afternoon for a 10 hour shift tomorrow night starting at 8pm :(
If i'm back for the weekend, i'll have a play with the new one then see how it runs :-\
-
Right, after paddling through mud and shite in Carlisle / Lancaster last week and not getting home until last Saturday afternoon, I finally got the car rebuilt up on Sunday :y
Took it for a good blast upto York and back yesterday (Christmas shopping) and I must say, its running a hell of a lot better :y :y
Much smoother and its idling better too so that says to me I had a few little air leaks :-\
I'll bodge the old sensor and keep it as a spare in case some ham fisted bastid breaks it again ::) :-X
Off back upto Cumbria later for another 4, 11 hour piggin nightshifts starting tonight :(
The things you do for money ::) ;D
Thanks for your help lads :)