Hi there guys. Some of you may remember a while back when i had a 95 td elite. i bought it off another forum member in good faith, but turned out to be a bucket of shit, knackered fuel injection pump being top of the list of faults. Was driving it along one day when the revs started to jump until it eventually groud to a halt and started rolling backwards down a hill despite being at full revs. It had chewed up the forward clutch on the autobox and had to be scrapped from where it died.
Anyway, hoping that one day I would get another omega, I stripped out all of the interior and stored it, much to the other half's disgust, in the spare room for 6 months. Another point to mention, when i stripped out the interior i found that the inside of the doors, door pillars and sills were completely rotted away and replaced with filler, nice!
Last week I managed to get hold of a V reg CD 2.0 16v auto. It has only done 60'000 miles and is in perfect condition, not even a stone chip on it. Even better I got it for a measly £150. The only small niggle is that the engine doesn't work. OK, so maybe a slightly bigger niggle than i make out, but hopefully an easy enough fix once I track down the problem!
It starts fine, but runs really badly, like it's not firing on all cylinders. It also backfires through the exhaust and the inlet and seems to run better at higher revs. The PO had changed the temp sensor, full exhaust, idle valve, egr assembly, plugs and leads and cylinder head. Since I've had it I have tried a different coilpack and giving the plenum a damn good clean out. I also tried a different ecu, but didn't have the transponder that went with it, so it didn't even want to fire.
Anyone got any ideas? The eml doesn't light up and i did a paperclip test but just got gibberish, a series of ten flashes and a few single flashes and a few series of 5 flashes. also when I remove one plug at a time there doesn't seem to be any noticeable effect on the engine, although there is a spark at each plug. If the rain stops for long enough i'm planning on taking the injector rail off and checking that there is fuel coming out of the injectors. A faulty dis-pack has been suggested but like i said, i put another one on and it made no difference. I can't hear any vacuum leaks anywhere either. Is it possible to get my spare ecu to accept the transponder chip that's in the car, or would i have to get another ecu complete with chip in order to test it?
I'm looking to have to have the car on the road asap, as i'm using my 15mpg 30 year old landrover as my daily drive on a 100 mile a day commute......expensive!!
cheers, GIll
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