Bongo Fury

right this is a long story but i will cut it short in july my mazda mpv efini engine blew up after only having my new beautiful car for 3 months i was gutted so i bought a recon engine from nippon spare but it was for a bongo 2.5td but it was the same engine no probs i fitted my engine and it started great but would not drive has i needed a new gearbox aswell so after 13 weeks of waiting my car was finally home BUT THE CAR IS SMOKING black i have changed my turbo changed fuel filter still smoking fuel pump came with engine looks new now on a morning having problems to start when it does start there is no power or rev when trying to start does anyone no where the timming should be set i have 2 marks on the crankshart a white and yellow 1 which one of them is the correct timming for the cam shaft timming please could you help as i have tried to get a book but the sender on ebay does not want to part with it but still took me money please help thank you nana

Phew!

Read that through a couple of times now but need a bit of help to diagnose the problem.

I've never tried to read such a long sentance all in one go, got a bit lost on the way.

I guess you have a Bongo engine fitted in another Mazda which fires up but belts out black smoke. There's also a gearbox/drive problem.

Do you still have the original exhaust fitted?

In which case it could be the EGR valve sticking open. . . .

Well that was quite a read nana - some punctuation would've saved by bleary ol' eyes

Does it have a box (number 13540) on the exhaust downpipe like the one in the pics?

If so, make sure the switch on the driver's side of the steering colunm is off - if it is off, then best to check the flap in the box isn't seized.

Also check the air filter isn't choked.

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yes i still have the old exhaust fitted the valve has been blocked has someone else surggested that and i am still having the same problem .

sorry i dont no what box you are talking about and there is not a switch on the drivers side colum it might be different in a bongo?

I hope you have gone through e-Bay security to try to get your book purchase resolved as well as asking here.

Also if you used a credit card contact your card company.

Its bad enough having a dodgy Bongo without being ripped off at eBay as well!!! I may be stating the obvious but in your position the obvious is easy to overlook.

Good luck, nana

Black smoke is usually fuel or air related so, as dandywarhol suggested, check the air filter. Also, the Bongo engine is more powerful than the Ranger engine so it may be that your MPV hasn't got a large enough air filter, thus restricting air flow (I didn't know that the Bongo engine fitted anything other than the Bongo or Ford Ranger so am just guessing )

I may be overcritical.....but is this a wind-up........

I don't want to be unkind, but can Bongo owners really be expected to give time to owners of other vehicles (and non-members?) who have plonked a Ford Ranger engine in their car and happens to have come from a Bongo.

It sounds like you've had some bad luck nana, and I'm very sorry to hear that, but its not clear to me whether it is linked to using an engine in a car other than that for which it is intended. What is an Elfini?

What is an Elfini?

See this Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efini_MS-8

I know - I was inviting our visitor to introduce themselves and their car before commencing on their supplications.

Cant (easily) get a pic from that link - me being thick again no doubt

Doone wrote:

What is an Elfini?

See this Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efini_MS-8

Interesting - that shows the engines as V6s

Yeo1 has a Bongo badged as an Efini - no "Friendee" badges on it

sorry for coming on your web site to ask theese ? i thort u will might know has it has a bongo engine i have been all over to try get answers but noone knows nothing and they call them car engineers and my bloody book aint come so i thort some1 might let me out of the dark seen has your guys has bongos ang an efini is a mazda same engine as a bongo ford freda and ranger the efini is a seven or 8 seater 4x4 and looks beautiful, so if there is a problem with me coming on your website just say

nana,
I know I can't help with your problems but I can't see why you can't ask a question. If people don't want to answer they don't have to.


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