Ok, Leak appears to be coming from up the back of the pump. There are two drips at startup and when engine is idling. After short journey leak seems to stop. I shoved cloth in under pump and after 30min drive cloth was still dry. Could heat of pump have dried out cloth? or could leak stop when ...

Morning
Thanks to all for advice. Replacing glow plugs did the trick. Mechanic 'fixed' cold start mechanism/solenoid...it now engages but wont disengage. When I pointed this out was told to take my bongo and get lost. That's the last time I'll use SVA Imports.
Regards
Isla

Hi Mike,
Yeah, engine struggles to fire up then big plumes of white/grey smoke although as stated I've been pumping gas till it fires.
Don't know what type of glow plugs mechanic used.
Regards
Isla

Forgot to mention, the problem only exists on morning start. For the rest of the day it starts fine on first turn no juice.

Thanks for the replies. Problem started 7mths ago so I had glowplugs replaced. Bongo started fine for 2 weeks and then problem returned. I asked mechanic to check the glowplugs and he said they were fine. Time to ask a different mechanic to check them me thinks.
From reading other posts it sounded ...

Hi all,
I've been having trouble with lumpy/smokey start for a while. So after searching forums and looking at bongo (2.5l td) I've discovered that one of the Cold Start Solenoids no.(22) is broken https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=mazda ... LCqMWUFI4M: . Its broke at the back of the white plug ...