Bongo Fury

plonkatronix wrote: Mon Dec 18, 2017 12:37 am After an hour of persuasion with a howden's chisel, and a lump hammer, and a claw hammer to pull on, we managed to get the old elbow out and the new original fitted, one step forward

Disconnected two pipes to flush the front matrix through, connected them up to the hose pipe and turns on water and it popped off... completely blocked... sent it through the opposite direction and it cleared thankfully.
One of the metal pipes I took a hose off is rotten inside where the rubber sits so not leaking from there YET! so what's the bets all these pipes are rotten. I have been reading here about bypassing the rear matrix as this will take some pipes out our the equation, so will do this at some point along with checking every single pipe, there are lots of new pipes on here already but not the metal ones by the looks of things... any more hidden?

spent all day shaking the expansion bottle using 3 bottles of bleach and a packet of dried rice... I can see again

...thought, with all this crud i'm finding maybe water pump and thermostat should be changed too, whilst i'm on that subject what's your thoughts on these thermostats that open at 76deg ?