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Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: Robl21 on 08 April 2011, 00:28:51
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Hi all,
Brand new to this forum having only purchased my Omega 2.2i CDX auto on Monday of this week. I owned one a number of years ago but t'internet wasn't as it is nowadays back then!!
Since purchasing the car on Monday I have had lots of fun replacing the rocker cover gasket (found loads of oil in the spark plug wells). Also replaced the exhaust manifold gasket due to a slight blow and serviced with new oil and filters etc...To be fair the step by step guides I have found from you guys have been a massive help hence my reason for joining :)
Right - to my dilema, the car I have bought has almost full sevice history and loads of receipts. However, the last time the cam belt was replaced was at 39,738 miles. I have contacted the previous owner who owned it for 4 years before the guy I got it off and he did NOT replace the cam belt again during his period of ownership. Current mileage is 91,055...Looking at the advice from the various forums it clearly advises to change the cam belt every 40,000 or 4 years etc etc....Problem I have at the moment is me and the Mrs are expecting our 2nd child any day now and we bought an Omega for the extra space etc.....So far this week it has cost me a few quid (that I can ill afford to spare at the moment) including buying a replacement timing belt kit and water pump (might even stretch to an aux belt aswell if you guys advise that to be best). If possible can anybody post me a link on how to replace the timing belt and water pump....Ideally step by step with the pics....if there is such a guide on the forum....I don't feel confident enough to do it myself without the incredibly helpful guides you guys post....Stuck between a rock and a hard place really as I can't afford to put it into a garage to do it nor can I afford to leave it so need to give it my best shot....
Also, does anybody know if I need to buy the special tool kit or can I do it without? Going to try and give it a go tomorrow afternoon (terrifed of going every time I go out at the min).
Any help or guidance or pointing me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated....
Sorry about the rambling on....Just wanted to be as clear as possible!!
Thanks in advance........
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There is a dvd available in the OOF shop to instruct on cambelt changes. For the 4cylinder engines I believe you need a cam locking wedge, but it only costs about a fiver or so.
If you cant wait for the dvd to arrive before you do it, Im sure some of the members who have changed a 4 pot cambelt can offer advise. I dont think its that big a job, certainly not compared with the v6 . :y
Also - if you put your approximate location in your profile there may be an experienced member nearby who could come over and help. :y
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Thanks mate....Don't really want to wait for the DVD, as you say it doesn't look like that big of job but I just want to make sure I've got all of the tools I need before starting and a step by step guide would be very handy!! Never done a cam belt before but then again I'd never seen the inside of an engine until Tuesday morning when I changed the rocker cover gasket!! Pretty quick learner and I'm very keen to maintain the car well.
Location wise I am in Bolton......Lancashire!!
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Im sure there are 1 or 2 experienced people around Bolton. Hopefully on e of them may be able to offer you some assistance.
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Ok mate, thanks for your advice....I'll hang fire and keep checking the post.... Thanks again.
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Good luck :) I am looking into doing mine aswell in the near future and will also be my first attempt at a cambelt.
If / when you get it done, I would certainly be interested in your opinion on the ease of the job etc, from the perspective of a first timer :)
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locking tool is laser 3053 its GOLD in colour, they are around £10 from motorfactor or ebay.
Cambelt kit is around £105 from motor factors OR £85 delivered from AutoVaux.
I'm hopefully doing mine either today or tomorrow. Depends when kits arrives.
Book time is around 1hr for the job as its quite straight forward,
The DVD was out of stock when I looked the other day, luckily i have all the autodata info here ;D
I'll try to remember to take some pictures ;)
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Thanks guys....I'll ring around now for the locking tool....Is this the only specialist tool that I need apart from the usual mechanics tools?
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You'll need a torque wrench for the tensioner/idlers.
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Thanks...Trying to find the correct torque settings for the tensioners & idlers can anyone advise?
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Decided to leave this until tomorrow....Mrs had a false alarm....Rushed into the maternity only to be told the little bleeders not ready for coming yet!!! So, any advice for the task in hand tomorrow or pics, links etc would be greatly appreciated...
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Plenty of helpful members around Bolton, Elite Pete in Northwich or even Captain Zok in Bolton not the biggest job in the world if you all ready have the parts :y
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Thanks for that, I already have all of the parts including the locking tool mentioned above which I picked up earlier today. I think or should I say I hope I will be fine doing it but I need the spec's for setting the torque on the idler and tensioner etc and some help/advise on setting the tension on the belt....May sound daft but i've never done it before and given some written help I reckon i'll be fine....Anyone?
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cam belt on 2.2 is very easy job,but remember to replace the water pump at the same time,waste of time doing belt if pump bearings fail then the belt will go slack and engine is buggered,but fairly easy job compared to v6 :y :y :y
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pump is run off timing belt,forgot to say :y :y :y
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You will need some E torx sockets for the crank pulley bolts, I used E11for the crank. and E8 for the belt cover bolts.
A 6mm allen key for the belt tensioner.
The kit I got on line was a Genuine Gm one! for half the dealer price.
only picture I took is this,
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v665/martin32/Martinsautocare.jpg)
But I can Email you the info from my Auto-data file if that helps.
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Well by the b'jesus!!! After much head scratching and absorbing the help and info from Geoff's P.M (and the Haynes manual) I now have a new timing belt and waterpump fitted and its running great.....Took me from Midday until 6:30pm to do it (with a break for the Grand National and a bite to eat). I reckon next time round I could do it a lot quicker but I was cleaning everything up as I went and had some trouble getting one of the alan key bolts out of the water pump (lovely technician at Vauxhall rounded it on the last replacement most likely!!) also had some trouble setting the tension as it was to the right of the groove as I looked at it but when I fired it up to check its position when idling it moved left into the groove for 'new' (I assume this is ok and it runs great)....Used the correct torque for all bolts that I put back as per the Haynes bible. Replaced everything in reverse to the way I took it off and to be honest the biggest pain in the a*"e today was getting the rubber hose to the radiator back on (pliers weren't big enough to get around the clip...Had to borrow a set of mole grips of a neighbour and on she went....All in all very surprised that I managed to do it considering I am used to putting it into a garage for the work historically and the fact I had never done something like this before.....
Just want to say thanks for the help and advice especially Geoff for taking the time to send me a p.m with step by step instructions which we're very useful to say the least....
Tomorrows plan of attack is to look at the hand brake as it does not hold at all and to service the auto gearbox despite the lovely people at Arnold Clark (Vauxhall) in Wigan not knowing what gearbox is on my car...Done some research and I reckon its the AF25 but if you guys know different please do let me know....
Thanks again.
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glad you got it done ok,makes you feel good when you do a good job your self :y :y :y :y :y
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http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1152564750
have look at this for handbrake m8y :y :y :y :y
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Gearbox will be AR35 :y
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Gearbox will be AR35 :y
Not in a 2.2 it won't be, AR25 :y
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Gearbox will be AR35 :y
Not in a 2.2 it won't be, AR25 :y
Bu99er, that is what I meant to write. :-[
I didn't stay in bed 'till lunchtime, honest! ::)
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Gearbox will be AR35 :y
Not in a 2.2 it won't be, AR25 :y
Bu99er, that is what I meant to write. :-[
I didn't stay in bed 'till lunchtime, honest! ::)
Its not natural to get up with clock still saying AM ;D