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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: jjleonard on 28 February 2009, 10:55:58

Title: Need help from the OOF
Post by: jjleonard on 28 February 2009, 10:55:58

I've posted a call for assistance in the General Help section here (http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1235818298), but I thought i'd cross post here as I'm desperate!

I need to find a Y26SE Drivers Side dispack (cyl 1,3,5 - I think the VX part number is 9118115) this weekend as my stealers have let me down and I need to be in bristol on monday!

Can anyone help? I can travel up to 100ish miles to collect, and pay cash, but I need to get it today or tomorrow!

Thanks in advance
John.

Title: Re: Need help from the OOF
Post by: watcher on 28 February 2009, 11:46:26

Is this any good ?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Vauxhall-Ignition-Coil-2-4-6-VectraB-Omega-9118115_W0QQitemZ200291291321QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM?hash=item200291291321&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2%7C65%3A10%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318

Title: Re: Need help from the OOF
Post by: shyboy on 28 February 2009, 12:02:22

Is the existing one completely knackered? One of mine was mis-firing through being cracked and covered in tracking lines, but I filled the worst cracks with Araldite and swamped the whole thing in WD40, let it dry, and re-installed it. Never had a problem since. (Rushes out to find suitable piece of wood to touch).  :)
Make sure you do the cam cover gaskets properly, though, it'll be floating in oil again very quickly.

Title: Re: Need help from the OOF
Post by: Martin_1962 on 28 February 2009, 12:17:30

Make sure plugs are OK as poor plugs will flash up DIS pack errors

Title: Re: Need help from the OOF
Post by: jjleonard on 28 February 2009, 12:50:53

Thanks lads - ordered a replacement via ebay (thanks for the tip - realised that I had posted up the wrong code - should have been 9118114), and I'll take the train on monday.

The cam cover gaskets were replaced about three months ago, but the damage had obviously been done by then. It turns out that I didn't properly clear out the plug wells of oil when I did the gasket change, as I changed the plugs last friday and the wells were swimming in it. EDIT: more accurately, the wells had oil in them, but this was old oil, not new since the gaskets were changed!

Thanks for the tip about the araldite, too - the pack has hairline cracks, but misfires under load and I don't want to trust it on a 400 mile round trip, but I might well give that a try this weekend to see if it'll do as a quick fix.

thanks all!

Title: Re: Need help from the OOF
Post by: jjleonard on 04 March 2009, 22:13:49

Woohoo!

FINALLY managed to get my new dispack, fitted it tonight, then had a whale of a time in the last hour hoofing the car around stevenage and up the A1 'testing the car under load'.

If anything, the car feels a lot smoother now - I must have had a tiny misfire that I never noticed until it turned into a major one.

 :y :y :y :y

Title: Re: Need help from the OOF
Post by: feeutfo on 05 March 2009, 00:21:48

always worth regular pedal tricks. Once a week. Just realised, have not done mine for a month. Haha. But it was tech2'd a fortnight ago.

Title: Re: Need help from the OOF
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 05 March 2009, 08:15:42

Remember this, the DIS packs fail often due to water rotting out the Iron in the coils.

Doing this lowers the inductance of the coil which in turn reduces the energy that can be stored in the coil.

When the coil is de-energised, its this stored energy that produces the HT in the secondary winding to produce the spark.

So, a failing coil pack may work fine but, you will get a slightly weaker spark and hence slightly poorer combustion!