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Omega General Help / Re: Sounds like a tractor
« on: 25 February 2007, 16:14:59 »
Not a problem, see how it goes.
Depends upon how bad the exhaust has got. The engine needs a certain amount of back pressure to work.
Try looking at the oil around the plugs though. I had the same prob when visiting relatives last year in Devon. Car ran as rough as a badgers ar**. Took the cover off the top of the engine covering the plugs. Mine being a face lift has the coil contraption on the top of the plugs so no leads. Anyway oil had dribbled down the inside shorting out 1 and 2 plug so getting a nasty shake from engine. Sometimes it would be o.k. and some times the engine management light came on.
If it is this then it is an easy fix by taking off the rocker cover and resealing with good red hermatite. I know that the gasket should seal without but i would sooner be safe than sorry when broken down again in the rain.
The rocker has an hidden bolt holding the cover in the middle at the front. Make sure you take this out with the rest if you have to do this job yourself. A pal at work tried to take off the same rocker off his Vectra and caused a fracture to the edge where he stuck a screwdriver in to prise off the top.
The Muppet ended up with a new rocker from VX and a bill for £115 + vat.
8-)
DaveL
Depends upon how bad the exhaust has got. The engine needs a certain amount of back pressure to work.
Try looking at the oil around the plugs though. I had the same prob when visiting relatives last year in Devon. Car ran as rough as a badgers ar**. Took the cover off the top of the engine covering the plugs. Mine being a face lift has the coil contraption on the top of the plugs so no leads. Anyway oil had dribbled down the inside shorting out 1 and 2 plug so getting a nasty shake from engine. Sometimes it would be o.k. and some times the engine management light came on.
If it is this then it is an easy fix by taking off the rocker cover and resealing with good red hermatite. I know that the gasket should seal without but i would sooner be safe than sorry when broken down again in the rain.
The rocker has an hidden bolt holding the cover in the middle at the front. Make sure you take this out with the rest if you have to do this job yourself. A pal at work tried to take off the same rocker off his Vectra and caused a fracture to the edge where he stuck a screwdriver in to prise off the top.
The Muppet ended up with a new rocker from VX and a bill for £115 + vat.
8-)
DaveL
) that it was a service issue with Omegas and the work around was checking the mechanism inside the door for lubrication.
