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Omega General Help / Re: Clutch size .

« on: 27 August 2025, 22:16:36 »

That's great news, Don, you can get the old girl up and running. I must say, she looks almost brand new.

Thanks Steve , I'm looking foward to working on it and enjoying it again. Being at home nearly all of the time I need a good project to keep me going .
It's also a bit of inverted snobbery really as I still like using the old cars and van around town .

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Omega General Help / Re: Clutch size .

« on: 27 August 2025, 19:36:50 »

Right ... I believe I have the answer .

After much searching I found that the Sachs 220mm dia kit (3000 951 218)  is cross ref'd against two GM OEM numbers R9114941 and R1020061.
The former is a 216mm clutch and the latter is the 220mm version.
Both of these kits are suitable for the following engine codes ,
20 SE
X 20 SE
X 20 XEV
The Haynes repair manual gives three clutch sizes for the Omega 216 , 228 and 240 mm dia.
So it looks like the either the 216 or the 220 can be fitted to the 2.0 engine .
I can understand why so many suppliers were hesitant to confirm the suitability of either for my car .
The irony is that since I started this search I've found many more of both sizes available ......
Anyway , This may be of use to someone in the future who is trying to make sense of it .

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General Car Chat / Getting back into the Omega .

« on: 26 August 2025, 23:15:45 »

It failed it's annual test in '23 on high fast idle emmissions . I left it and then went back to it in March '24 and did the usual checks ,ran cat clean through ,new plugs /filters /oil / lambda etc...( all were fresh /new or almost anyway ) but it failed on exactly the same figures again with everything else perfect .
I just parked it up covered it over and left it in a corner of the garage .
Was moving it around last week and realised that even after 23 years I still enjoyed the car .
The years are passing all too quickly now so I figured I'd recommission the old thing and at least (try) and enjoy it for a while anyway .
I fitted new Bilstein B4's for the test in '23 and purchased a new certified 2.2 exhaust downpipe last year which I'm told overcomes the high Co reading due to the Lambda position being closer to the exhaust manifold and hence running hotter .
The timing belt has only done 815 miles since I replaced it four years ago but I'd never have peace of mind if I didn'y renew it and the water pump , its an hour and a half job on the x20xev anyway .
The cars done 28 K miles in 23 years with me and I've replaced the TB & WP 5 times .
Clutch bite point is very high which is puzzling . I've bled the system twice but it's made no difference so that has to be done .
There's a great Opel / Vauxhall community local so it'd be great to get involved with them again , hence my wish to get it back on the road .
It's easy to forget how supremely comfortable these cars were /are . I have a new car and the seats are too firm and achingly painful after an hour .
Anyway , here it is in all it's glory .
Biased as I am I think they have aged well .

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Omega General Help / Re: Clutch size .

« on: 26 August 2025, 22:26:01 »

Is there no one that can help with this?

………..
The 215 dia clutch is proving to be very difficult to find at a price that is (even)  reasonable ………..

Autodoc list a Sachs Clutch Kit in 215 with 14 teeth, but whether it’s actually available I couldn’t say. Might be worth contacting them.     It depends what sort of figure is considered reasonable I suppose.

I bought it yesterday along with a central slave cylinder and a timing belt and water pump kit .
Paid via PP and got a refund today for the clutch kit . They say that even though one shows as being in stock they have checked and there is none .
I sent them the VIN to see if they any others to suit and they came back with a 215mm plate and a selection of three pressure plates all of different manufacturer from the plate and no way of determining from the description if the PP dia  was sized to suit the plate .
I don't want to have to mix and match .
I also contacted my local GM MD and they offered me three different clutch plates but no pressure plate was available .
The clutch plates were of different sizes but they could not tell me what was what .
I've found one in UK and am awaiting reply to see if they can confirm it is correct even though the description says so . The reason for this is that they do not take returns and that's a risk .
Buying from UK is a royal pia as the cost goes through the roof due to import taxes into Rep of Ireland .
Ho hum .... we'll get there .
Thanks for taking time to check for me . 

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Omega General Help / Re: Clutch size .

« on: 26 August 2025, 20:36:14 »

Is there no one that can help with this?

Uhhhh....Thanks Steve , you're like a big brother ........

What a pita this is ...
Decided to recommission the Omega and enjoy it again before I get too old ....
The 215 dia clutch is proving to be very difficult to find at a price that is (even)  reasonable . I just don't want to get the 220 mm version and find that it doesn't fit when it's all in bits .
Anyway , hope you're well .  and thanks for the help.

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Omega General Help / Clutch size .

« on: 25 August 2025, 22:58:54 »

I've decided to recommission my '99 Omega 2.0 X20XEV .
I have to replace the original clutch as the bite point is almost at the end of the pedal travel even after bleeding the system several times .
The clutch size according to Haynes manual and most search engines that I have used show it to be 215mm dia with 14 teeth.
This is proving to be difficult to locate .
Kits sized at 220mm dia seem to be freely available but according to Haynes manual this size is for the larger engined models .
My question is will the 220 mm diameter clutch fit the X20XEV flywheel ?
Thanks .

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General Car Chat / Re: Clutch .

« on: 18 August 2025, 22:27:53 »

Mmm.... Haynes manual says 216.mm on 2.0 engined cars .

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General Car Chat / Clutch .

« on: 18 August 2025, 21:05:49 »

X20XEV .
Can anyone confirm that the clutch is 220mm dia with a 14 tooth spline ?

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General Discussion Area / Re: Dead Person

« on: 30 July 2025, 22:46:33 »

Cleo Laine 97. she was a "doobe doobee doo" jazz singer if you didnt know.

Slow response  but we went to their Club " The Stables " in Wavendon twice mid 90's and have to say that they were superb ,captivating " old school " entertainers . The venue had an incredible intimate ambience and although their musical genre wasn't really mine I thoroughly enjoyed both occassions .
In and around that time we so very fortunate to see them both , Acker Bilk , Humphrey Littlton ,Georgie Fame and Kenny Ball at various summer evening picnic concerts . They were all real entertainers .

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General Discussion Area / Re: Dead Person

« on: 23 July 2025, 00:31:34 »

I just looked back over the Apollo Glasgow website and realised that I saw Sabbath  in January 1972 .
I do remember being absolutley underwhelmed by them .......
Ozzy was another one of those celebs from way back then that seem to follow you through your life and he was much more than entertaining .
I thought his statement at the gig at Aston recently was very touching when he tearfully thanked all their fans for letting them live such a wonderful life .
Very sad that he went so soon after his swansong .
He'll be missed .

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General Discussion Area / Re: Dead Person

« on: 23 June 2025, 23:46:49 »

Mick Ralphs 81.
Guitarist and songwriter with Bad Company and Mott the Hoople.
Quite a lot of his music was the soundtrack of my youth. And I still listen to Bad Company regularly. They were a great band.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJTSmLqg6iE

I pulled out a couple of Mott The Hoople albums earlier after reading this .
It never ceases to amaze and convince me that that era of music and musicians will never be surpassed . Age seems now to encourage me to listen closely to the genres that I never paid attention to at that time and the quality of just about everything is incredible .
Another one gone .

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General Discussion Area / Re: Potty Mouthed Pensioners - AI generated but funny.

« on: 23 June 2025, 23:33:07 »

Saw a brilliant A.I version of Kier Starmer on Facebook offering financial services , actually very convincing and very spooky , shockingly easy to get duped by this technology 

Many vids that have popped on any of my feeds have been pretty easy to identify as AI but there have been a couple that took me a little time to realise that they were fake .
What concerns me is that if you use the mobile phone anology we are just beyond the Motorola Brick phase in AI ....just look at your "phone " now .
Facinating but frightening .

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General Discussion Area / Re: Trump has gone to the top .

« on: 23 June 2025, 23:24:25 »

I'm curious as to why , with all the aerial bombing that has been going on over Iran as a whole, that there seems to have been no ordinance dropped on the Naval base adjacent to the Straits of Hormuz.
I'd have thought that to ensure that IROI could not mine the international sea routes therin  they would have obliterated the base and it's supply and storage facilities.
The US carrier groups sailed through The Straits just prior to the US becoming involved so would it not makes sense that as soon as the first MOP dropped through the ceiling at Fordo the US and /or Israeli air force would have destroyed any Iranian ability to mine the straights.
China is one of the biggest consumer of oil passing through that route and I ask myself who else would benefit , and not necessarily financially , from a global shortage of oil especially if they were a self sufficient producer themselves ....Number one and number three perhaps  ?
Methinks that we, the minute pawns in this game of global power retention (and even distribution) , may have to dig deep(er) into our pockets very soon .

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General Discussion Area / Re: Dead Person

« on: 02 June 2025, 12:28:14 »

Sad . She owned a lovely house not 250 yards from me .
Haven't seen her about our little town for some years now but she was recognised and liked by all .

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General Discussion Area / Re: EU UK reset

« on: 23 May 2025, 22:17:00 »

Maybe she didn't want anyone to see the rug she was munching .........
And don't get your hopes up .

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14279655/Nicola-Sturgeon-luxury-flat-author-Val-McDermid-split-husband-Peter-Murrell.html