Bongo Fury

During the Dobby Bongo losing coolant sagas I removed the Mason alarm. Should I refit it?. The bongo ran a bit hot previously (or did it?)

All the mason alarm seemed to do was woosh the needle further over to the right, then moved a bit more when then engine was working hard up and down the M6 etc.

I would refit it as the normal temp range is very slow to react and if you where to have any overheating problem in the future by the time the gauge reacted you may well have cooked your engine.

The problem is that I think that the Mason alarm just moves over a bit further and then if it gets hotter it moves only a bit more. The Mazda one never moves and then just whizzes over to the red once disaster has happened. Maybe the Mason Chirp is the best bit?

Where does your needle sit when the engines at normal op temperatures?

My bongo is now (on the standard set up) sitting neatly at 11.00 am with a head temp of 83c to 93c.

Maybe I should just refit it.

PS my other car is a bike as well 1973 Montesa Cota 247

My bongo is now (on the standard set up) sitting neatly at 11.00 am with a head temp of 83c to 93c.

Without a Mason to modify it I would be surprised if the standard gauge sat ANYWHERE other than 11 o'clock - that's all they ever do.

At least with a Mason fitted my needle does move about a bit and start chirping when it gets near 2 o'clock.

scanner wrote:
At least with a Mason fitted my needle does move about a bit and start chirping when it gets near 2 o'clock.

Aye, but isn't 2.00pm pretty well over to the right and on the limit of movement? I guess the benefit is that the Mason Mod moves it before the standard version even realises the head has gone?

I think I'll refit it

two weeks ago in the snow my alternator belts went and i believe if it hadnt been for the mason alarm i would have defiantly cooked my motor.....ne pas brainer.....

Since you've got it, I think you may as well fit it.

At the very least you will have some space in a drawer/shelf, and it may just save the day.

That's it, it's going back on.

Thanks Guys

Yes

dobby wrote:During the Dobby Bongo losing coolant sagas I removed the Mason alarm. Should I refit it?. The bongo ran a bit hot previously (or did it?)

All the mason alarm seemed to do was woosh the needle further over to the right, then moved a bit more when then engine was working hard up and down the M6 etc.

Is it just me being a bit dim, but isn't that part of the reason for fitting the Mason alarm? It makes the standard gauge more sensitive (as a temperature gauge should be), so that you can actually see when it is getting hot & react to it, it doesn't actually make it run hotter.
It's a no brainer - get it fitted, don't really understand why it was removed, if you were losing coolant, surely you'd want to know if it was overheating?

Seems to me the Mason doohickey is telling you something - like the engine's overheating

Silted up radiator by any chance?

dandywarhol wrote:Seems to me the Mason doohickey is telling you something - like the engine's overheating

Silted up radiator by any chance?

The head temp guage is loads cooler than before the core plug incident so I reckon the flush throughs and new stat etc have sorted. i'm going to refit the mason this weekend and go from being blissfully ignorant to paranoid.

Need to master the art of driving with one eye on the temp guage the other on the digital guage

dandywarhol wrote:Seems to me the Mason doohickey is telling you something - like the engine's overheating

Silted up radiator by any chance?

I hope I'm not being overly pedantic here DWH but as he has not yet refitted the MA it can't be "is" only "was" and maybe that it "was" stuck on 2 o'clock may just have had something to do with his problem.

Maybe after it is refitted it may not be quite so "heatedly right wing" in it's opinion.

Hmmmmmm...............got me again............

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Pippin would have been proud of that one!

Nice debate on the mason alarms!

Will re-fit and see what the needle does