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Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: barclay03 on 05 October 2009, 13:27:43

Title: A Few Problems
Post by: barclay03 on 05 October 2009, 13:27:43

Having a few problems with the mig over the past day or 2.

1. The handbrake light keeps dimly flashing/staying on when im driving but the handbrake handle is fully down. Im going to check the switch but asking incase its a common thing that i dont know about  :y

2. My heaters dont seem very warm. They used to burn my eyeballs out when it was set to HI, now its just luke warm air thats comming through  :-/ the coolant was recently changed, engine temp sits fine at 95ish... any thoughts on what could be wrong?

thanks in advance!

Title: Re: A Few Problems
Post by: Jimbob on 05 October 2009, 13:35:45

Heaters,

you could try a servo rest - auto and off for 5 seconds.
did you get all the air out the system when you did a coolant change?
you could flush, and reverse flush the heater matrix...
pull the pipes off where they go into bulkhead, push on hose and run for 5 mins, both connectors.  I put another bit of hose on the other to drain under the car.

Title: Re: A Few Problems
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 05 October 2009, 13:39:11

Top your brake fluid up

Title: Re: A Few Problems
Post by: barclay03 on 05 October 2009, 13:57:27

thanks for the suggestions guys   :y

Will try the servo reset first before redoing the coolant.

Brake fluid was low, think it might be leaking some - advisory on MOT was corroded rear brake lines, so ill have to get under it and check just how bad they are then probably replace them. I knew the light flickering would be something like that lol

Cheers again  :y

Title: Re: A Few Problems
Post by: Jimbob on 05 October 2009, 14:05:55

you only lose a little coolant, your are only doing the matrix  :y

Title: Re: A Few Problems
Post by: barclay03 on 05 October 2009, 14:25:40

Cool - will maybe give it a go this week if the reset doesnt do anything  :y

Title: Re: A Few Problems
Post by: barclay03 on 10 October 2009, 12:06:57

whats the easiest way to get into those pipes to flush when the winter pack doodah is fitted?

also, is there any bleeding points in the system that i dont know about?

cheers

Title: Re: A Few Problems
Post by: RobG on 10 October 2009, 12:23:36

As Jimbob says ^^^^^ did you make sure there are no airlocks in the system :question
Engine idling, heater controls set to max, blowers on max, expansion cap off and "burp" the top hose :y

Title: Re: A Few Problems
Post by: barclay03 on 10 October 2009, 13:14:46

Will give that a try  :y

first coolant change on an omega so unsure of the right protocol  ;D im used to bleeding screws within the system (from working on french crap)

Title: Re: A Few Problems
Post by: Jimbob on 10 October 2009, 17:14:49

how to disconnect the heater matrix pipes :

http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1185891036



how to flush all coolant :

http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1167917774