Hi All you Omega nutters, I have jus found the site and registered. I'm trying to find my way round the site, so if I make some mistakes don't shout at me too loudly......
I'm om my 3rd Omega, and never has one of them been in a garage( except for the obligatry M.O.T.), I try to do all work on them myself.
no1 was and M reg 2lt GL auto estate bought for £500 without an engine (oil pump packed up).I got when it was 3years old and still have it. I got an engine and gear box for £120 out of a rolled R reg that had holed the sumps on both engine and box. Although its now also got the hand gear box as well. But after nearly 200k it's now nearly ready for the one way trip to china. But she has served me well for best part of 10 years( the longest I've ever had a car in my 40 years of driving)
no2 is a R reg saloon 2.5td auto, but alas that is minus it's engine at the moment, she just couldn't keep any water in the rad, even a new head gasket didnt solve the problem, so there's a 2nd hand engine and gearbox ( ebay purchases) wating to go in when I've the time.
3rd is a 2001 2.2 CDX auto estate L.P.G. converted, this one I bought on ebay for £600 it had only 1st and 2nd gears working, so had to be trailered home. Omega no1 pulled it all the way from Bristol (120 miles) with out missing a beat in the dead of a December night. This car has now got the 2.5td's gear box in it and up untill last week was running fine. Head gasket went, and radiator cracked on the plastic end, and new timing belt fitted and of course all service items done.
But on the way home from work this morning the oil light came on and after a few 100meters started to rattle slightly from the top end, so turned off P.D.Q. and rang greenflag to get me home. I'm in the middle of trying to fathom out how to get the oil pump off, it seems tricky acording to my well thumbed Haynes manual, the time quoted for this job is 10 hours from a garage. Any body any idea how to do this job easily?
Thanks for reading this sorry saga, but life goes on, and it's only a matter of time before my Omega is back on the A1, and me smiling at the filling station putting in the 46p per lt LPG as others are putting in £1 per lt petrol....
Cheers Alan... :
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