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Omega General Help / 2.2 Drive by Wire Throttle Body and Breathers(Add)

« on: 22 July 2007, 17:54:35 »

Perhaps one of the Mods' could add the following info to this maintenance guide?

The recommended torque setting for the crank case breather tube is 25 Nm and the gasket part number is 90500571. This is a metal gasket and the bead on the gasket must point upwards to the crankcase ventilation flange.

The part number for the throttle body gasket is 90543950.

Hope this is of help to someone.

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Omega General Help / Re: Traction Control / LSD

« on: 21 July 2007, 14:55:09 »

Just a thought bit you could put one wheel on the grass and the other on the road and try to pull away sharpish. If the wheel on the grass just spins I guess that would suggest that you don't have LSD. If you get good traction on the other side and she pulls away nicely then I guess that you do?

As I said, just a thought

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Omega General Help / Re: To seal or not to seal?

« on: 20 July 2007, 08:01:22 »

Cheers AA.    

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Omega General Help / Re: To seal or not to seal?

« on: 19 July 2007, 11:18:30 »

Shouldn't be needed.....

I guess you mean the sealant shouldn't be needed.

Thanks for the reply.

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Omega General Help / Re: To seal or not to seal?

« on: 18 July 2007, 22:41:00 »

Just a thought. Should I use sealant on the breather sump gasket?

Whats that then?  :-?

I don't know But i've ordered one from the stealer 'cos it said it in the maintenance guide.

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Omega General Help / Re: To seal or not to seal?

« on: 18 July 2007, 22:34:36 »

Just a thought. Should I use sealant on the breather sump gasket?

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Omega General Help / Re: To seal or not to seal?

« on: 18 July 2007, 21:57:44 »

Sealent is not required.

As for the bolts, just nip them up....dont be tempted to make them tight you only need to compress the rubber seal and get the mating surfaces to touch.

I prefer your answer to STMO123's so I don't need a baby torque wrench then.

And I've just got my third star [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] Life truly is sweet on OOF.

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Omega General Help / To seal or not to seal?

« on: 18 July 2007, 21:50:59 »

That is the question.

I am going to clean my throttle body and breathers on the weekend as per the maintenance guide. Definately, no excuses rain or shine. I've even ordered the gaskets from Vx dealer today and they will be in on Friday.

The real question is should I use gasket seal on the new gaskets and if so what should I use? Also the recommended torque setting of 9nm for the throttle body doesn't seem very tight and my new torque wrench doesn't go that low. Could I just tighten it carefully and hope for the best?

OK thats two questions

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Omega General Help / Re: consumption when towing a caravan

« on: 11 July 2007, 22:58:32 »

22mpg sounds about right to me. Towed the van to Perranporth on the weekend and got low 20's mpg, although still got there and back on less than two gallons.

Normally get about 28mpg on normal day to day driving and 35mpg if taking it really easy on the motorway.

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Omega General Help / Re: will this really work

« on: 10 July 2007, 19:02:25 »

You know what they say!

'If it seems too good to be true'

Altogether now........

'IT PROBABLY IS'

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Omega General Help / Re: What does this mean?

« on: 30 June 2007, 14:16:24 »

How much did you pay for it?

£2.89 plus postage so under a fiver total. That's why I bought it, thought that there was so little to lose it was worth a punt.

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Omega General Help / Re: What does this mean?

« on: 30 June 2007, 14:02:28 »

THIS THREAD CONTRAVENES OMEGA OWNERS FORUM RULES.

Thought as much.

Sorry mate, we can't discuss it here. I suspect this will be deleted.

OOps

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Omega General Help / Re: What does this mean?

« on: 30 June 2007, 14:01:18 »

You're probably right

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Omega General Help / What does this mean?

« on: 30 June 2007, 13:50:28 »

I have just received one of those maintenance manuals adverised on EBay.

Anyway, there are also a lot of step by step maintenance guides in the programme with tech drawings to show you what to do. I was going to clean out my throttle body and breathers, when the rain goes away but the first thing the guide said was:

"Throttle Body, Remove and Install (Y 22 XE, Z 22 XE)

Note:   When removing and installing or replacing the throttle body it is absolutely essential that the adaptation values for the throttle valve in the EE PROM of the engine control unit are deleted using TECH 2".

What does this mean? If I go ahead with this job will I end up with other problems?

It also says this:

"Note:   For engines with throttle valve module (electronic accelerator pedal) it is necessary after replacing the throttle valve module (electronic accelerator pedal) to reprogram it. To do this, switch on the ignition and wait for a minimum period of 10 seconds. During the waiting period, the engine must not be started because this will interrupt the programming operation."

Once again, any ideas??

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Omega General Help / Re: Car won't start

« on: 28 June 2007, 19:55:12 »

Is this what I think it is?

Go on then - put us numpties in the picture!!

Yes, go on, put us numpties out of our misery.