SORTED!!!!!

the car at long last seems to run as it should 

the new water pump has def made all the differance,i know have heating

i put the new cam belt kit on yesterday,did the exhaust,and reset the light on the dash with my opcom

then i took her for a drive drove lovely,no temp issues and for first time ever in the car lovely warm air blowing at me heaven!!!!

BUT THERES ALWAYS A BUT!!!!!!since taking the battery off while doing the work i cant seem to get the radio back on

ive read the radio mannual that comes with the car BUT to enter the sec code the rad has to turn on /show safe mode!! mine is just dead!! no power so cant even enter code!!! im going to check the fuses again but i got the multi meter on the fuse box yesterday and all fuses seem ok 
anyone got any ideas?

griff2494 wrote on 25. Feb 2011 at 08:23:



Some radios have a fuse very carefully hidden behind them, requiring removal of radio to check! As in my CCRT700. Well done with all your work Griff.

hi again every one

took car for a BFG test today (its the german mot,for british army )

anyway the car PASSED with flying colours

APART from i need to get cont head lights !! thing is ive been looking and need to no what lights will fit my 2002 omega

ive seen loads and loads of headlight but only up to 1999 model of omega ,

mines def the new shape but ive only found one set for any omega after 1999 but there zeons ,but how can you tell what lights you have? ie zeons or normal?

RIGHT!!!!!!!!

took car out for a spin (approx 80miles round trip)
BUT after about ten miles the engine warning light came on!!!!

i had the opcom and my laptop with me (just incase lol) anyway i read the code and cleared it but it keeps coming up
heres the opcom report
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OP-COM 090821d - PC based diagnostic tool

GRIFF2 AND SON

OP-COM - KW2000 Communication Window> 2002|Omega-B|Engine|Z 22 XE

Keyword #1: EF
Keyword #2: 8F

Normal timing parameter set.



Total number of fault codes: 1

P0141 - O2 Sensor 2 Heater Open Circuit
(04) - Present
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now even with that the car seemed to run spot on
im assumming thats the lamba sensor????
and its the 2nd one,nearest the middle box???

i had disconnected the sensors when i took the front pipe off,and i had noticed the 2nd sensors wire seemed tight so i repostioned it

if seeing it was tight its somehow pulled on the wire can this be fixed?? as i no the metal casing on the senser too seems very loose for some reason

or will it need a new sensor??? also on one of the opcom reports it also said RUNNING LEAN ,would a knackered sensor do this???

am i ok running her while this prob is on going????
it passed its BFG (german mot for brittish army)so  the emsions are ok

O2 sensor 2 is surely going to be the cat-efficiency monitoring sensor, and as such has no influence on fuelling at all.

No problems running with it as is, except the annoyance of the dash light.

See if you can get a secondhand known-good sensor off one of the breakers on here, as and when.

The running lean may be a hangover from when it was trying to fuel correctly despite the HG problem, and so may go away as the ECU re-learns now that the fault is gone.  You mentioned a gasket leak manifold/downpipe I think, which may also have monkeyed around with the ECU's and the primary lambda sensor's ability to get the fuelling spot-on. 

Is it leak free now?  You really don't want pre-cat fumes wafting around the bay, as they may get through to the cabin-air intake and be dangerous to health.

gotta say Griff well done on this car your perserverance paid off and now you've got a good motor congrats

yeah, gotta say griff, your perseverance has been nothing short of epic!

really hope you get to enjoy her now....

well ive BEEN enjoying her till this morning!!!

NOW THE BLOODYRADIATOR HAS JUST GONE !!!!!!!


its seems very strange though as its not the fines etc that have gone !

looking at it from the front of the car its the plastic part of the rad on the drivers side,its almost like the seal some how has gone between the plastic part where it gones to the metal part of the rad,and not just a little bit its leaking all the way down!

(wish i could just hit it so it seals again lol)

im pritty sure there prob is nothing i can do apart from getting a new rad but does anyone no if

1. this is quite a common prob?
2. any way of fixing it?