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Omega General Help / Re: Oh Bugger - The END?

« on: 20 August 2006, 17:56:11 »

Thanks for that.  
I have cleared as much as the oil out as I could with the help of a long transparent tube and suction then kitchen roll.

Have repaired the 2 broken vacuum pipes.

Still runs like crap.  

Given the history.. what is the next step guys?

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Omega General Help / Re: Oh Bugger - The END?

« on: 19 August 2006, 13:29:13 »

Just been out and made repairs to the vaccum pipe.  reseated the multi-ram in the correct position and fired her up again.

It is better...... but still no where near right  

Idle is very lumpy, although now alot quieter, if you then push it straight into full throttle, there is a noise like air being sucked in, a pause, then it revs up.   drop the revs, it struggles to not stall.  Low revs still cause the car to shudder like mad.

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Omega General Help / Re: Oh Bugger - The END?

« on: 19 August 2006, 12:57:43 »

Time for a compression test me thinks.....

How do I do one of them?

Just been out looking at it again, and noticed that when I put the Multi-ram thing back, I had it pushed too far back and the 2 vacuum pipes have been cut through by the alternator pully. Managed to trim one back and make good, just going to tape the other up and see if that makes a difference.

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Omega General Help / Re: Oh Bugger - The END?

« on: 19 August 2006, 12:16:18 »

OK, got as much oil out as possible, turned it on and got some revs.

took it round the block,  it was really holding back, but at high revs was pulling along,  low revs was a different matter, shuddering alot and stalling if the revs weren't there.  

Got it home and it immediately stalled, back to stalling when revs are applied.

Also one hell of alot of bubbling,  I presume this is normal as I emptied the block?

Hard to know what this means really - any thoughts, suggestions, things to try?

Cheers
Merv

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Omega General Help / Re: Oh Bugger - The END?

« on: 19 August 2006, 10:55:14 »

It probably been sat for a month, and the hydraulic tappets may have lost all their oil.

IIRC, your rocker gaskets are suspect? pull the plug leads and remove any oil in the plug wells in case it also has a slight misfire.

Bugga! just popped the lead of plug 1 and had a texan bloke start shouting Yee-Haa
More sodding oil in there than a bloody oily thing!!!

Is there a simple way to get it out?

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Omega General Help / Re: Oh Bugger - The END?

« on: 19 August 2006, 10:46:16 »

That was short lived!

I turned it on.  gave it some revs, which is provided in a fairly stuttering sort of way,
Then moved the wife's car out of the way, got into mine, it is now idleing like a diesel truck,
battery light dimmly coming on and off, no response to me pressing the accelerator.

The attached vid shows the noise it is making, the response to throttle and the final bit is me taking the camera from drivers side to passengers side accross the engine.

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Omega General Help / Re: Oh Bugger - The END?

« on: 19 August 2006, 10:04:43 »

I haven't tried to actually drive it, I was scared that something worse might happen.

The smoke stopped the second time of starting.
The sounding like a diesel is fairly constant
The 'clunk' noise is not regular, when it happens it co-incides with the engine faltering then picking up again.

I don't really know where it is coming from, other than it seems to be more pronounced on the passenger side of the engine.

I am here with the car, so able to try things to order, and can video and post the findings.

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Omega General Help / Re: Oh Bugger - The END?

« on: 18 August 2006, 18:49:50 »

The smoke was coming from around the bolt where the EGR meets the manifold, although curiously it hasn't been doing it this time round.

I have checked the oil and there is plenty, it is quite thick and looks like it needs a change, but there is plenty of it, and it sounded fine before the failure.

The attached vid was taken after the sodding secondary air pump had shut the f up.  Picture not great but the sound is the issue.



Aside from sounding like a diesel  :-?  every so often you can here a definate clunk.

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Omega General Help / Re: Oh Bugger - The END?

« on: 18 August 2006, 15:37:55 »

Update time .....

Charged up the battery and turned the key.

Engine burst into life,  but sounded very similar to before (ie no better )

More worrying, was smoke coming from the engine.  Video attached.



What do you think guys???

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Omega General Help / Re: Oh Bugger - The END?

« on: 18 August 2006, 11:31:01 »

Sorry guys!! update time - or is it flatdate?

Went off to B&Q (closer) and bought one of those recharge station thingies,  got it home, connected it up and the car turned over once before the damn thing gave up.

Went off to Halfords and got one of those power socket to power socket jump lead things (the only thing long enough given where my car is-  That was officially rather useless.

Gave up, put the power station thing on charge and hit the beer! [smiley=beer.gif]

This morning,  connected up the booster, car turned over a bit, at one point almost fired, then the rather useles booster thing gave up  

Off to Argos (I love shopping!), bought the biggest battery charger they had, took the other shite back, and the battery is being charged as we speak (or as you read).

I will let you all know how it goes!  (Admins, you may want to make sure the profanity filter is set to max - this could get messy if it still don't work )

Cheers
Merv

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Omega General Help / Re: Oh Bugger - The END?

« on: 17 August 2006, 16:23:47 »

The missus has just got back... off to halfords!

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Omega General Help / Re: Oh Bugger - The END?

« on: 17 August 2006, 16:20:33 »

I have jump leads in the car, and am in Bletchley. I'll be leaving here in about 20mins, let me know if you want me to drop by...

Would depend on how long they were really. they would need to be about 4.5m long!

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Omega General Help / Re: Oh Bugger - The END?

« on: 17 August 2006, 15:37:20 »

Thanks for that - connected them all up!
Put the multi-ram back (might need to take it out and re-seat that)

Put coolant back into the system..

Double-checked there are no spare parts that should have been replaced.

Ummmed



Arhrhed


Got the key out of my pocket


got in the driver's seat


put the key in


turned it...........










THE rather BATTERY IS FLAT!!!

break break break break break!!! oh and break!

The wife is out, no battery charger, the car is parked the wrong way on the drive to jump it (if I had jump leads which I don't!)

Looks like the moment of truth will have to wait a while longer!

break!

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Omega General Help / Re: Oh Bugger - The END?

« on: 17 August 2006, 14:42:39 »

Getting scarily close now!!

Where do these vacuum pipes go?



I think 5 --> 3

How about the rest?

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Omega General Help / Re: Oh Bugger - The END?

« on: 17 August 2006, 13:42:26 »

do you have compression on gine now, as iirc, there was little compression before?

It certainly took some effort to turn the crank,  I didn't turn it before so can't compare.  Should know the answer later..... [smiley=vrolijk_1.gif]