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Omega General Help / Re: General Service

« on: 29 March 2007, 18:23:12 »

Ill have a listen to my tank pump then and see if it is still alive. It sometimes seems as though it does have starvation problems when i first start in the mornings so it'll be worth the check. Thanks for your advice, ill be tackling it next week.

Just another quick question, if the fuel level drops below 20 litres in the tank, it really struggles to start and sometimes it won't start at all if its on a hill... Above 20 litres its always, well 9 times out of 10, spot on.

Anyone had similar problems or know a reason why? It seems that the fuel is draining back into the tank somehow but not really sure?

Thanks Platty

Sadly the starting trouble when the fuel level is below 20 litres will be that you fuel pump's not working  

When you do change the fuel filter, slacken the two filter housing bolts otherwise the filter won't slide all the way off as it hits against other things on it's way.

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Omega General Help / Re: General Service

« on: 29 March 2007, 08:15:40 »

Changing the fuel filter's easy enough, it just spins off. Before you change it though make sure that the in tank fuel pump works. Listen for it humming whilst the glow plug light's on. If you can't hear it you will have big problems getting the diesel bled.

If the pump's working it's easy. Change the filter then slacken the little bleed screw on the top of the filter housing, turn the ignition on to get the diesel pumping out of the blled screw. You may have to turn the ignition on more than once as the pump only runs for a few seconds each time. Tighten the bleed screw once there's fuel there and then start the engine and hold a few revs for a minute to make sure any air in the system doesn't let the engine stop.

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Omega General Help / Re: CD Spec

« on: 01 April 2007, 10:02:59 »

My M reg 1994 2.5td CD has aircon and a sunroof.

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Omega General Help / Re: '97 Steering wheel and airbag on '94 car?

« on: 28 March 2007, 18:16:54 »

Thanks for your help both of you      I think I'll remove them both and see if they swap over. If the plugs are the same then the airbags probably are (I hope!). Looking in the haynes manual the airbags use different ecu's, but the internal circuit of both airbags look the same.

If they won't swap then I'll leave it as it is. The 'spare' car is going to be sold soon, well that's if I can find a buyer for it  

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Omega General Help / '97 Steering wheel and airbag on '94 car?

« on: 27 March 2007, 21:58:47 »

Hello all     first post here although I've been lurking since I bought an Omega estate a few weeks ago.

It's a 1994 M reg cd model which needed a few bits doing to it to get it as I wanted. The main thing was that it needed another tailgate so when I was at a local auctions and there was an Omega there the same colour with a good tailgate I bought it!

I've swapped most bits over that I wanted to and now I'm down to the steering wheel as mines starting to come apart at the stitching.

My question is can a steering wheel off the '97 car be put onto the '94 model as the airbags are specific to each steering wheel and will have to be swapped too -they use different bolt hole spacings. My main concern is that the airbags may use different ecu's to each other and/or when I get in there the connections are different.

Thanks for any help and sorry for the long post!