Omega Owners Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

News:

Welcome to OOF

Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: irratic idle on a veccy b - ideas?  (Read 821 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

jonathanh

  • Omega Knight
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • coventry
  • Posts: 1200
    • View Profile
irratic idle on a veccy b - ideas?
« on: 09 February 2009, 19:33:57 »

Parents veccy b is playing up.  i think it's an X18XE.  the idle speed is irratic - sometimes climbing to 2000.  the ICV has been dismantled and cleaned - made it worse.  no fault codes stored

ideas?  is it a new ICV?  if so where's the best place to get one?

TIA
Logged
parking near Birmingham airport for members with +250 posts.  PM for info

TheBoy

  • Administrator
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Brackley, Northants
  • Posts: 107043
  • I Like Lockdown
    • Whatever Starts
    • View Profile
Re: irratic idle on a veccy b - ideas?
« Reply #1 on: 09 February 2009, 19:35:49 »

air leak?
Logged
Grumpy old man

bertiecbx550

  • Guest
Re: irratic idle on a veccy b - ideas?
« Reply #2 on: 09 February 2009, 19:36:27 »

Was the gasket replaced? i had the same problem with my veccy 1.8 so i replaced the gasket and that cured it...
Logged

Markie

  • Omega Lord
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Lanarkshire, Scotland
  • Posts: 7762
    • RS4, BMW X5, Range Rover
    • View Profile
    • http://www.facebook.com/pages/Markiescarparts/149306545168993
Re: irratic idle on a veccy b - ideas?
« Reply #3 on: 09 February 2009, 19:37:24 »

Air leak / Breathers....one of the small rubber hoses at the back ( top) of engine is prone to cracking and splitting....

Also the fact that a cleaner icv made it worse would make me retrace my steps in putting it all back together....something amiss with rebuild ? :-/
« Last Edit: 09 February 2009, 19:38:27 by Markiec »
Logged
MarkiesCarParts-Online Now With A New 4000FT Partswarehouse; Stocking Thousands of Vauxhall,Peugeot, Citroen, Renault & Rover NEW Parts - Check us on Ebay MarkiesCarParts-Online. PM me via OOF for discount

jonathanh

  • Omega Knight
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • coventry
  • Posts: 1200
    • View Profile
Re: irratic idle on a veccy b - ideas?
« Reply #4 on: 09 February 2009, 19:39:27 »

thanks I was thiking air leak but I'm 100 miles away so difficult to check.  i'll suggest it to parents

could be amiss with the rebuild but i didn't do it!!!
Logged
parking near Birmingham airport for members with +250 posts.  PM for info

bertiecbx550

  • Guest
Re: irratic idle on a veccy b - ideas?
« Reply #5 on: 09 February 2009, 19:41:48 »

They are awkward so an so`s to do....thats my excuse anyway ;D
Logged

jonathanh

  • Omega Knight
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • coventry
  • Posts: 1200
    • View Profile
Re: irratic idle on a veccy b - ideas?
« Reply #6 on: 11 February 2009, 22:08:11 »

Thanks all.  think we've fixed it.  lubricated the ICV and it seems all ok for now.  

Logged
parking near Birmingham airport for members with +250 posts.  PM for info
Pages: [1]   Go Up
 

Page created in 0.045 seconds with 17 queries.