Omega Owners Forum
Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: Gaffers on 06 May 2011, 18:30:34
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I'm having a mare getting the 6mm piping onto the investors. What's best, a bit of heat on the tops of them?
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:o - thats normally dead easy - its the larger feed pipe to the injector block thats the real mare :o
Hot water to soften the rubber?
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:o - thats normally dead easy - its the larger feed pipe to the injector block thats the real mare :o
Hot water to soften the rubber?
And a little fairy liquid to lube it...
Kevin
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:o - thats normally dead easy - its the larger feed pipe to the injector block thats the real mare :o
Hot water to soften the rubber?
And a little fairy liquid to lube it...
Kevin
I'll give it a go, I'm having a real problem getting them on :(
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By the way I take it that the small spring clips go on over the injection union to hold the pipe on...
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Talking to Teilo today about this , he says hot water will help or just chew on it for a while ;) :y
His words not mine :)
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By the way I take it that the small spring clips go on over the injection union to hold the pipe on...
Yep, although they don't seem to do a lot. Both ends of the injector pipes and the vacuum / vapour pressure pipes.
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I used a small amount of brake fluid
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Aye? the rubber pipe goes on easy usually, it's the Polly pipe that's a pig, ESP the new stuff. Is it the correct piping? ( one wonders ) :-/
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Man up! Those little pipes are reasonably easy to get on!
TBH... I usually use a little dribble in the end if it's difficult :y
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Well warming the pipe made it easier but still not straightforward on the nozzles. The injectors were easy as there is more purchase. I wonder if it would have been easier to fit the nozzles on the pipes first and then fit them to the inlet manifold?
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Oh and the mamouth session working till 0030 last night and then again from 5am this morning. I got the car back on the road at 0800 having:
- plumbed in the vapouriser coolant pipe from the back of the coolant bridge around the front
- replaced the HBV
- replaced thermostat (and coolant bridge pipe >:()
- replaced most of the coolant piping at the back
- fitted the inlet manifold that KW kindly tapped for me :y
- replaced the leaking camshaft seal.
When I first started her up it ran fine at idle, and then I blipped the throttle and it was running of 4/5 cyl :o I was dredding that the cambelt had slipped but I definitely remember torquing it up correctly and making sure it was still set perfectly. Then I realised that some rain water must have gotten in to the inlet after the thunderstorm hit during the rebuild. I hurridly had placed the scuttle in place but obviously not well enough :-[
After a few minutes with a rough idle a few studdering blips of the throttle cleared the last of the moisture and she was running sweet 8-)
End result:
- no more oil leak
- no more coolant seepage (not really a leak but was losing a litre a month plus the sweet smell in the cabin)
- a more normal running temperature
- increased mpg
- smoother
- more power
The last 3 were a pleasant suprise but definitely noticable. But the whole session last night and this morning was not a pleasant one after playing a whole day of rugby league 9's tournament when you're mid 30's.
Now to fit the rest of the kit :y