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Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: san on 25 July 2009, 13:26:11

Title: Retighten Cam Cover ?????
Post by: san on 25 July 2009, 13:26:11

Hi,

I change my cam cover gasket on last december but seems I still have some oil leaking (very low) on the back of the engine (next to EGR) and spark plugs.
This time I didn't have the right torque done.

can I retighten for 8Nm ?? or should buy rings and gasket and make all service again ????
Thanks
San

Title: Re: Retighten Cam Cover ?????
Post by: Jonesie on 25 July 2009, 13:27:50

in my experience with non omega cam cover leaks you can retighten without any problems. But if you have a blocked breather pipe it will keep on leaking, so have a good look round too

Title: Re: Retighten Cam Cover ?????
Post by: san on 25 July 2009, 13:35:50

Thanks.

I think my fault was not change the oil when I did the first time. I just did the breather pipe and hose and kept doing journeys of 10 minutes only.

Should I take the cover off, clean nice or just retighten ?

San

Title: Re: Retighten Cam Cover ?????
Post by: Jonesie on 25 July 2009, 14:02:41

If your gonna take it off be carefull not to split the gasket, amount of times i've split them then had to go source a new one is ridiculas. Should be fine just pinching it down

Title: Re: Retighten Cam Cover ?????
Post by: mathewst on 25 July 2009, 22:16:08

Jonesie what breather pipe excatly.
I'm not sure on what pipe you mean so explain please a little

Title: Re: Retighten Cam Cover ?????
Post by: tunnie on 25 July 2009, 22:21:01

did you use genuine gaskets?

Title: Re: Retighten Cam Cover ?????
Post by: TheBoy on 26 July 2009, 15:00:23

if it was only done very recently, you may well be able to reuse gasket

Title: Re: Retighten Cam Cover ?????
Post by: san on 27 July 2009, 10:53:45

Hello All.

Sorry didn't get on the internet this weekend.

Yes I used genuine gasket. The pipe is the ones leaving the cam cover. The oil pipe.

Sanderly

Title: Re: Retighten Cam Cover ?????
Post by: swamp rat on 27 July 2009, 12:09:31

Hi San,
In my experience on the breather pipes on a 2.2, there are 3 pipes from the cam cover - one which goes down to the sump and 2 on the left hand side facing the engine which block up. The small, thin pipe which goes down to the throttle body always seems to be the worst and takes a lot of cleaning because of the narrow bore - I use loads of carb cleaner and a piece of rod to push through. It's usually worth cleaning the throttle body at the same time as there is a pin hole below the butterfly which also blocks.