Re: another leak this time diesel!!!!
Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 6:27 pm
I may have a 'funny one'. Wheelquick fitted a new O ring (offside of pump was leaking) and appeared to have cured a small diesel drip. That was mid November. Yesterday, I found a significant splash of something (smelt a bit like white spirit but I think it must be diesel, maybe winter blend 
) more or less where the Bongo had stood though only briefly. It is as though a one-off 'event' had happened. It seems dry today underneath it, though I'll be checking it regularly now. But what caused the event I wonder?
Mike at Wheelquick did brace me to expect around £600 if leaks can't be fixed and a reconditioned unit has to be fitted. I guess that is the rollercoaster of car ownership. If it should come to that, then I'll just have to deal with it. But for simple O ring replacement, the cost should be a lot less (depending on whether the garage is prepared to - and has small hands for - replacing them with the injector/pump in situ).
Is the someone who is coming to look at it a Bongo specialist? I do know you have to be very careful that various springs and shims don't fly out and get lost if you remove the offside cover on the pump. Also, it looks to me as though the job is a lot more practical to do (and thus cheaper) from underneath with the vehicle on a hydraulic platform and with engine cover tray removed. Certainly Wheelquick managed the (easier) offside one quickly by doing it that way.
) more or less where the Bongo had stood though only briefly. It is as though a one-off 'event' had happened. It seems dry today underneath it, though I'll be checking it regularly now. But what caused the event I wonder?Mike at Wheelquick did brace me to expect around £600 if leaks can't be fixed and a reconditioned unit has to be fitted. I guess that is the rollercoaster of car ownership. If it should come to that, then I'll just have to deal with it. But for simple O ring replacement, the cost should be a lot less (depending on whether the garage is prepared to - and has small hands for - replacing them with the injector/pump in situ).
Is the someone who is coming to look at it a Bongo specialist? I do know you have to be very careful that various springs and shims don't fly out and get lost if you remove the offside cover on the pump. Also, it looks to me as though the job is a lot more practical to do (and thus cheaper) from underneath with the vehicle on a hydraulic platform and with engine cover tray removed. Certainly Wheelquick managed the (easier) offside one quickly by doing it that way.
