Bongo Fury

Mine is a 1997 and uses seven leads .. six to the sparkies .. one from the coil (king lead) to the middle of the dizzy cap ..

Seems the six lead set does not have any connector leads set at right angles where as the seven lead set has 3 straight and 3 at 90 degrees, other set must be for a ford ranger or poss late bongo model with the coil in the distributor.

The correct Mazda parts are side-specific: right angled on the n/s & straight on the o/s as shown on Lush Projects:

http://lushprojects.com/bongopartsmk2/c ... mgno=.html

You could probably get away with straight for all 6 as Mike's photo seems to show.

Pretty certain the V6 was never fitted to the Ranger & as far as I know, all V6 Bongos have separate coil. My 2002 model does.

Changed leads today, however think i may have mixed up the firing order.
I have it as (Clockwise) King lead, 4-5-1-3-6-2 , pretty sure I have cylinders 2-4-and 6 correct but 3-5-1 cylinders are possibly mixed up as engine is not running correctly. The head under the passenger seat with leads 2-4-6 was not a problem to change, the leads under the drivers side for cylinders 1-3-5 were cable tied together several times and had to be removed in one go as i could not gain access to cut all the ties. This is where I think i have mixed up the firing order. Looking at the picture on the dizzy cap it poss should be king lead, 4-3-5-1-6-2 but did not want to give my self any further problems without checking, hope someone can help.

This is my cap if it helps. From king lead: 4-3-5-1-6-2



It sounds like its the drivers side that's wrong. The cylinders are 5-3-1 from front to rear:



Passy side is 2-4-6:

You got the pic. right but the explanation wrong ..

From the front (radiator) drivers bank it is ..1 - 3 - 5

Oops . Should have gone to Specsavers.

It's OK Simon both yourself and Mike's pictures have been of great help, and I never even noticed you had reversed the plug positions on the post, due to the great photo's you have both supplied. Really heavy rain today, so I will rectify my mistake when the rain eases off later today. Still don't know if the new leads have cured the original misfire problem fingers crossed Jim...

Might be worth documenting this for the future perphaps ?

            Drivers side
             1   3    5
Front       Engine       Rear
             2   4    6
            Passenger side

Jim the Box wrote:Stu I used a Teflon based oil not vasoline.

Vaseline is by far better, put it on the door handles and the kiddies can't get in

Ok, checked my leads and the company I purchased them from labeled the longest HT lead as number 1 and, it should had been marked as number 5 as that is the cylinder at the rear of the engine. Have swapped the leads over at the distributor cap and changed the labels, now running fine, however I now have a RED warning light, "HEAT". (it is the 2nd warning light on the RHS of the dash next to the the fuel gauge.) Have I disturbed a sensor when removing all the HT leads that were cabled together I don't know, had a look could not see anything obvious. Any ideas guys

I think that warns if the catalyst is overheating ..

Looking at the condition of the printed circuit on my speedo my V6 as never had a bulb / holder in

Hmmmm the light is illuminated as I turn the ignition, I start the bongo and it stays on, so the cat should have not heated that quick, either I have pulled a wire when fitting the leads, or it's a faulty sensor, or it was caused by the HT leads being reversed, or has a new fault has appeared.
I was kind of hoping that the ecu had picked up the misfire/mixture fault due to the reversed leads and the fault would disappear after I had resolved the misfire problem, would the sensor clear itself immediately or could it be I just need to take it on another run to clear the fault light. Can I cause any damage by taking it out a run for say 1 mile or so.

I know that my ABS bulb had been removed (and why) ... but I checked and there where no 'tram lines' gouged into the printed circuit .. so I am sure mine never had a factory fitted 'Heat' bulb / holder..

You would think once the engine and the cat cooled the HEAT fault light would go out or is there a fault clearance procedure.