Going to keep a close eye on it. If it had felt loose or notchy I wouldn't have put it back on.
She's 21 years old now so we don't expect her to last much longer but i'll keep you posted
on how long the UVJ lasts. Thanks again for all the advice.

Just thought I'd update. steering got worse so removed lower UV joint and one of the joints was solid. held it in a vice put a short piece of round steel bar in
the seized part and worked it back and forth a few dozen times to free it up. then put it in a tin of castrol graphited grease so it was ...

Thanks for the reply, I'll run it for a week or so to see if it improves,if not I will look at that coupling. That's what the guy at bongo spares said as well.
We had a new injector block fitted by them a couple of years ago, they are very good and helpful. thats why we went back to them.
It's that ...

Steering rack started leaking on our diesel bongo so took it to Bongo Spares who fitted a recon rack and new ball joints.
Started driving home and immediately noticed the steering had changed (heavy and didn't self center after going round corners)
took it back and they said it may be tight ball ...

Thanks Chris for you fast response, just what I needed.

Just before Xmas I noticed a fuel leak on our 1996 2.5 diesel bongo. It's coming from the fuel injector pump. The van is fitted with a fuel pre heater so it can use cooking oil but we've only ever used diesel. From reading other posts it seems chip fat and seals aren't best mates and on closer ...

Had my steering UV start to seize up and the best thing I find is to use a good quality motorbike
spray chain lube they come out thin to penetrate and then thicken up to a grease that stick's
just like that brown stuff. Jack the front up and get someone turn the steering back and forth while you ...

just replying to supreme being. Sorry about time delay.Operating system meltdown (WINDOZ) was the cause, am now using linux peppermint, never touching microsoft again. Anyway getting things up and running again this thread was forgotten about. Answer to your question "where did it go" it went in the ...

Thanks Simon, got it sorted now

Sorry, I'm a complete novice at this forum stuff. Have been trying to get some images from
photo&ucket into my post's from the start without any luck so far.
My van is a 1995 vintage from north japan so came with two batteries fitted,the heater I'm
fitting is a D2 model. If it worked this time the ...

Just an update. Have finished fitting the heater just need to wire it up now
but I'm stuck at one wire. It's one of four that go to the fuse box. It's coloured (white/red).
Anyone know what its for or where it's attached.

Thanks everyone, briliant response. Now if you could all pop round one aft.....
No I'll be starting on it as soon as it stops raining.

Can anyone help.
I'm about to fit a eberspacher heater kit to my van but the place I'd like to fix it (under the passenger seat)
is taken up by a small air filter, something called an exhaust shutter solenoid valve and a couple of electrical connectors.
A rubber hose runs from the solenoid to ...