Bongo Fury

anyone got the factsheet on changing the glowplugs, mine turned up this morning and am leaving at 3pm for yorkshire

Thought it'd be a fairly quick job but there's all sorts of pipes in the way


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John,
The factsheet in the members area is good. Its a case of removing all the bolts in the panel over the engine and removing the bolts securing the gear mechanism enough so you can move the panel over to the nearside. This gives you enough clearance to get a socket to the rearmost glowplug.
You need small sockets for the nuts holding the rail on. The ones I took off mine were 7mm, but the nuts on the new plugs were 8mm.
The job takes 1 or 2 hours.

Steve L wrote:John,
The factsheet in the members area is good. Its a case of removing all the bolts in the panel over the engine and removing the bolts securing the gear mechanism enough so you can move the panel over to the nearside. This gives you enough clearance to get a socket to the rearmost glowplug.
You need small sockets for the nuts holding the rail on. The ones I took off mine were 7mm, but the nuts on the new plugs were 8mm.
The job takes 1 or 2 hours.

Cheers Steve
Have loosened the Vacuum pipe assembly ??????? so i can just see the plugs (looks like its going to be scrapped nuckles)
But it looks like i need a 12mm spark plug type socket, to get the plugs out.
Looks like it'll have to be sunday when I come back...................bummer

Yes it is a scraped knuckles job (aren't they all).
Moving the engine cover plate looks daunting but it doesn't take that long.
Best of luck.

Steve L wrote:John,
The factsheet in the members area is good. Its a case of removing all the bolts in the panel over the engine and removing the bolts securing the gear mechanism enough so you can move the panel over to the nearside. This gives you enough clearance to get a socket to the rearmost glowplug.
You need small sockets for the nuts holding the rail on. The ones I took off mine were 7mm, but the nuts on the new plugs were 8mm.
The job takes 1 or 2 hours.

I did not take any gear mechanism/top panel out. I use a draper expert set, 3/4" (small) drive with wobble bars. The hardest part I found was right at the start of the job, the two bolts on the bracket for the vacuum valves?They were a b*****d differcult to shift, so had to get the big guys out for that job (3/4" drive)

For removing the vacuum hoses I used the flat blade of a screw driver to push on the edge of the rubber pipe whilst pulling the hose ( nearly said "my hose" ) hard to explain, but pulling alone just can make the hoses grip tighter.
I wish I took photos when doing it. ....... Next time!!

Used copper ease on the threads of the new plugs, just incase job needs doing again. The old plugs were not differcult to shift but you could tell the thread was dry, as you could feel there was a bit of friction when removing, if that makes sence

Brora,
Yes I looked at removing the vacuum pipe assembly but decided it was easier to do it by moving the engine cover (as in the fact sheet). There is no need to take the gear mechanism out, just remove its mounting bolts so that it can be moved a couple of inches over to allow access with the socket and extension.
Its good to know that it can be accomplished either way though.
I'm a sod with copper grease myself, ever since I sheared my first exhaust manifold stud years ago.