Car today, started ok, after a mile or so every time I came to a halt the engine sounded a bit rough and the car was vibrating a little. Kind of a chug-chug sound. Once above 2500rpm it seems fine and runs sort of OK although it doesn't seem 100% "right" but appears to rev/pull reasonably OK. Almost feels like a blowing exhaust but the exhaust all looks OK. After journey there was a faint oily smell but no leaks and no oil in the engine bay that I can see. There also seems to be a little bit more of a "thunk" when when it drops down into a low gear (e.g when pulling into a junction after coming down from 30/40 mph etc.). It's not a big thunk though and all other gear changes up/down all smooth and normal.

Car laid up for 40 minutes then I tried re-starting and it hasn't gone away.

Oil/coolant levels all OK. no overheating etc.

Any ideas?

edit: might be worth mentioning that I had (a few months ago) the rocker gaskets done. Is it possible that that HT leads were damaged (all the time that the RG were leaking into the plug wells) and now eventually failed? How would I test this?

Thanks.
Thanks.

Sparks are quite new.

will look at fuel filter (where is it?)

I noticed the sponge bit under the water tray (above the dis) was very wet (lot of wet weather recently!). May this is causing problems? Do I just remove and clean/dry it out?

Thanks.

Presumably the leads will be OK so all I need is the DIS? Are these expensive? (is a DIS effectively a distributer?). I will try drying, cleaning or are they unrepairable?


And yes, it is going dugga dugga dugga dugga

Thanks.

Looks like I need to remove the plenum to be able to check the leads anyway (and the DIS).

DIS seem to be £50/60 or so, does that sound right? VX want ridiculous amounts!

OK, an update and help required

The DIS is a right bugger to get to, no way of getting it out without removing the plenum and even then I can see it won't be easy. Who designed this crap?!

Anyway. I could remove sparks on the drivers side and sparks 3 and 5 (2 nearest to bulkhead) spark OK when trying to start (took plugs out). Spark 1 would not spark. swapped plugs and no joy so the plugs on that side are OK. So it looks like lead 1 isn't getting a spark.

How can I investigate further? I think I could manage to get a lead from the DIS at plug 1 but would need a new lead from somewhere - will any lead do for this test?

No chance of getting to the plugs on the nearside, again which idiot designed this thing... It's like they've made something that should be simple as tricky as possible. Even if I removed the plenum etc, could I then still do the spark test?

Also, the padding underneath the scuttle was soaked through (trying to dry it) and almost fell off. Do I really need to replace it? What does it actually do?

On the plus side, I managed to unblock the drain hole while I was at it

http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1155224533

yea like mine was as above mine was horizontall and bolted t a horozontal plate with 4 e/star bolts

as above i just shoved penulm off to side

and used a flexable nut driver to undo bolts it does come trust it want as bad as it looked

the hard bit as above was figering out witch way to pull it out gap after geting bolts out

but it dose come out once you find right way

like i said helps as its dark and hard to see having a frind shine in a tourch o you can see bolts better

re leads i got a set for 29 quid from eurocar parts


the amazing bit was after new dis pac and leads and air filter my3l elite is doing 20 to the gallon around town
iv only ever had about 14-15 around town couldent belive it gave me 25% beter fuel consumption

Dracoro wrote on 09. Oct 2010 at 11:22:

one of thease

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