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[Kevin Wood]

Bad news James, with it all on one head I would be looking at oil starvation.....

Yep, sounds like it to me.

Assuming this is correct, and given James's meticulous approach to his work, this is extremely unfortunate, and leads me to ask, what more could he have done to ensure that there would be no interruption to the oil feed to the camshaft bearing(s)?

Fitting the head gasket wrongly is the most likely cause that would affect just one head, IMHO. The feed is staggered, so relies on an elongated hole in the head gasket to transfer supply from block to head. It might be possible to block that feed by fitting the gasket incorrectly.

Failing that, maybe the oft-encountered problems with blocked pickups in the sump on a 2.6 prevented the oil pump from priming correctly. One would expect that to be immediately evident in knocking from the crank bearings, though.

I'm not sure if the bearing oil feeds pass through the T vent on the head. Possibly, this blocked due to some dirt that got dislodged during the rebuild?

I'm sure James will carry out a detailed post-mortem in time. Every cloud has a silver lining, good excuse for an upgrade to a 3.0.

[Webby the Bear]

I take it that this problem wouldn't have been evident when poor old James was turning the crank when setting up his timing belt? it woulds have spun like normal and then when on it would have seized up due to oil starvation?

sad days

[Jimbob]

Martin Imber managed to put a head gasket on the wrong way round or upside down which caused some blockage iirc?

[Kevin Wood]

Martin Imber managed to put a head gasket on the wrong way round or upside down which caused some blockage iirc?

Yes, I had it in the back of my mind that it had happened before. I think you're right.

[JamesV6CDX]

Martin Imber managed to put a head gasket on the wrong way round or upside down which caused some blockage iirc?

Yes, I had it in the back of my mind that it had happened before. I think you're right.

I too recall this, as he was asking about reusing the gasket

Thing is I've done SO many v6 head gaskets I know without question which way up the HG goes!

Although we do know what they say about complacency!!

I'm going to have to strip it to check!


On the upshot? Our kind Joff has a spare 3.2 engine which he needs to get out of his garage, so it's being donated to a good home.

Anyone else have a 3.2 CDX?

[05omegav6]

Funnily enough, several were factory built... either as dealer special orders or for the Royal Household

[JamesV6CDX]

Getting there!

It's heavy work on your own, but the dead lump is now out, should be dropping in the 3.2 tomorrow if the weather's dry

[steve6367]

Looking good 

[JamesV6CDX]

Looking good 

As part of this job I cleaned out my garage and found that part you're after today

[Entwood]

Daft question time ...... as I've never disemboweled an Omega ....   

Why wrap the lifting chain around in that weird and dangerous looking manner (having had an engine slip when doing similar in the past) when there is a convenient lifting eye attached to the engine - that gets in the darn way doing the B***** bolt ??

[Sir Tigger KC]

Wow! Good effort James!! 

[JamesV6CDX]

Why wrap the lifting chain around in that weird and dangerous looking manner (having had an engine slip when doing similar in the past) when there is a convenient lifting eye attached to the engine

I don't follow, my chain is attached to both lifting eyes (on each side) via a heavy duty chain?? Both lifting eyes are being utilised?

Edited - look closely at the pic of the engine hanging, you can clearly see the chain attached to the 1-3-5  lifting eye...  I think what you are referring to is just the excess length of chain hanging down the side of the engine...

In fact, you can see the shackles attaching the chain to both lifting eyes in that pic

[Andy B]

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I don't follow, my chain is attached to both lifting eyes (on each side) via a heavy duty chain?? Both lifting eyes are being utilised?

I think Nige is looking at the 'spare' chain dangling either side 

[JamesV6CDX]

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I don't follow, my chain is attached to both lifting eyes (on each side) via a heavy duty chain?? Both lifting eyes are being utilised?

I think Nige is looking at the 'spare' chain dangling either side 

Yep, had me worried for a split second I'd missed something!

Tomorrow I'm going to have to drop the AR35 off the 3.0. It's the one thing I really CBA to do, but I'm going to have to, fitting an AR25 to the 3.2 would be pointless

To be honest it's all been very easy so far. I removed the entire engine loom and aircon pipework just to get it all right out of the way

The guide states to take the engine out alone and to support the box, but I didn't seem to have any issue removing it all as one unit

[Steve B]

Looks like you had a busy day james