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Omega General Help / Re: Keys locked in, urgent. Panic Over.

« on: 14 August 2011, 13:20:00 »

Absolutely, first thing on the to do list for Monday :-) Ive always known I should get one done but never get around too, luckily I got away with it this time.

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Omega General Help / Keys locked in, urgent. Panic Over.

« on: 14 August 2011, 12:13:14 »

My boy has just managed to lock the keys in my Omega estate and I don't have a spare. Any tips on breaking in before I resort to smashing a window?

Cheers
Phil.

Phew, managed to get in a with a coat hanger.

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Omega General Help / Re: Bad engine rattle :-( The saga continues.

« on: 17 June 2011, 20:48:07 »

I finished rebuilding the engine which ran for 15 minutes before the big end seized.

Not wanting to go down the rebuild road again as it taken me about 6 months to fit it in, I bought another engine but just discovered that one is down on compression on number one 8 bar and number 2 about 10 bar. The rest are 16 bar.

I am at my wits end now over this and deliberating just chucking it in anyway until I can find another replacement at the right money.

Do you think Id just get a loss of power with those readings or would I really notice it running uneven.

The guy I bought the engine from said it was running sweet before he took it out.

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Omega General Help / Re: Bad engine rattle :-(

« on: 01 May 2011, 20:46:37 »

Unfortunately its come to a bit of a full stop now, Ive spent knocking on £800 on parts alone now, as well mostly finished doing a LPG conversion but can't get a front pulley :-( and not done enough posts yet to be able to list in the wanted section.

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Omega General Help / Re: Bad engine rattle :-(

« on: 21 April 2011, 20:14:11 »

All sorted now, I hadn't seen the numbers stamped on the front of the pulleys as the washers were in the way, easy when you know how. 

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Omega General Help / Re: Bad engine rattle :-(

« on: 21 April 2011, 11:49:05 »

Thats brilliant, thanks.
Now I know Ive got the cams in the right places, but that diagram will help me get them positioned right and the pulleys fitted.

Just what I needed, Ideal.

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Omega General Help / Re: Bad engine rattle :-(

« on: 20 April 2011, 21:34:26 »

Thanks for that, Ill have to double check which one Ive fitted where, but whats was worrying me was the pulley will go on two ways too even though the holes in the pulley seem to be off set.

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Omega General Help / Re: Bad engine rattle :-(

« on: 20 April 2011, 20:14:06 »

Ive eventually started on the rebuild, replaced all the bottom end bearings, heads, cams and rings along a really good clean up.

But putting the cam pulleys back on this evening I notice they can go two ways, I am guessing that it doesn't matter which way but if someone can confirm, that would be great.

Also noticed the crank pulley for the cam belt has lost its locating notch on the inside. Can anyone help with a spare one?

Cheers
Phil.

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Omega General Help / Re: Bad engine rattle :-(

« on: 18 January 2011, 19:40:21 »

How much would you want for the full set?

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Omega General Help / Re: Bad engine rattle :-(

« on: 18 January 2011, 11:08:07 »

I have removed and stripped the engine right down now, the oil was like treacle which starved and seized the top end. The oil pump, mains and bores are all OK, the big ends are just starting to show a little wear so Ill replace them while its apart.

One of the inlet cams hasn’t been able to turn as the tappets seized but the pulley wheel wanted to keep going and cracked the cam where it locates on the pin.

Unfortunately Vauxhall no longer carry cams for the X30XE. Does anyone know where I might be able to get an inlet cam (marked G8), or failing that suggest an alternative set of cams?

Cheers Phil

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Omega General Help / Re: Bad engine rattle :-(

« on: 06 January 2011, 21:40:16 »

Not going to be a quick job eh :-(  but its going to have to come off one way or another otherwise I am not going to be happy its been done right.

Ive an air ¾" drive socket gun which seems to move pretty much anything so Ill give that a whizz before going for the full engine out option.

Ill push on and update at a later date.

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Omega General Help / Re: Bad engine rattle :-(

« on: 06 January 2011, 20:55:52 »

Hmm, I know your right..  :-)

Do you want to sell your spare heads?

I reckon Ill change the oil pump too while Ive got it apart. Is it possible to do while the engine is still in the car?

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Omega General Help / Re: Bad engine rattle :-(

« on: 06 January 2011, 20:26:46 »

I am pretty sure it was properly tensioned up, couldn't turn it belt through 90° and was all nice and tight. You can tell its all pretty new.

I'm planning on rebuilding it now instead of doing an engine swap, gives me an excuse to use the Cortina for a while, but will I necessarily need new heads?

Ive posted a video of it just before it expired on Youtube now:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kas1vVd90gE
Hopefully it may help someone else in the future.

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Omega General Help / Re: Bad engine rattle :-( tappets seized in the head.

« on: 06 January 2011, 19:50:10 »

Didn't quite get as far as taking the head off tonight but did remove the inlet manifold and two of the cams and can already see that at least two of the valves are bent and others are still open even though the cam is off them. So it looks like some of the tappets have seized in the head. I guess even though there was no oil pressure warning it dropped low enough to let them run dry.

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Omega General Help / Re: Bad engine rattle :-(

« on: 05 January 2011, 19:50:34 »

Ive removed the cambelt cover this evening and found the belt to be all tight and in order so that's that ruled out.

Next step to take the heads off I suppose :-(

The engine is a X30XE motor, so possibly not an oil pump issue? No warning about low oil pressure.  Anyway will update when Ive got the heads off..