Bongo Fury

Upon arriving home in the bongo today after about a half hour drive, Mrs P noticed that the centre console, including the brake lever was very hot. Upon removing the console cover, the metal ratchet of the brake lever, and in fact anything made of metal under the cover was really hot to the touch. The temp gauge was still sitting at the normal 11 o'clockish position, and Ive noticed the console being warm before... so is this normal, and if not, why might it being getting this hot?

ALSO...

Ive noticed a rubbing/friction metallic sort of noise that Can be heard occassionally when the accelerator is depressed. Is doent occur all the time, but now Ive noticed it, Ive become obsessed. With the window open it sounds like its coming from the off side front wheel, but with the window shut, I can hear it louder from somewhere more central. Any ideas. Ive recently had a cambelt change - could it be related??

Any help would be great!

the console does get hot as does the hand break leaver, it sits on the engin after all.
there was a thread about this recently
http://www.igmaynard.co.uk/bongo/forum/ ... t=ash+tray

Hi, If youv`e just had your cambelt changed check that the scavinger fan in the engine compartment has been reconnected as this has to be removed to do the belt and the fan is there to disperse the hot air / heat from the engine bay.

Hi Dickie,
Not sure about the noise but you should have a search for scavenger fan in the archives, there is a thermostat under the central console which has been mentioned as a faulty earth type fault in the past. This hot weather we are enjoying will make it likely that the scavenger fan needs to come on (that is the whopping big one in the front of the engine compartment. After a drive out, when you stop, keep the engine running and go round to the front of the Bongo, if the fan is on I am talking "round things" but if it is not running, check the thermostat out!
Good luck, Hope this helps,
Tim

Or maybe squeakiness caused by everything being hot and the lubrication on the moving parts having been dispersed / thinned? I noticed the tiniest squeak of that sort from my accelerator pedal after several hours driving back from Norfolk loaded to the gunwhales. I didnt have a hot handbrake so dont think there was an excessive heat problem, but then my squeak was correspondingly small!

Funny how you listen out for any little noise in the Bongo isnt it. Must be love.

I'm talking gibberish so I'll stop now

missfixit70 wrote:The noise isn't the turbo kicking in is it?

I can't hear any noise when the turbo kicks in.

I don't think you should be able to?

I do hear the noise right from start up, so I dont think things have had a chance to get hot. He's going in for waxoyling next week, so I'll use the opportunity while hes up on the ramp to have a bit of a poke about I think. I'm sure its gonna be nothing, but I get obsessed with niggly noises (I think I inherited it from my Dad... he used to put little bits of foam in casette boxes to stop them rattling!!!).

I checked out the scavenger fan, and it does indeed seem to be working, so I think the heat was just rising from the engine. Cheers everyone!