v6 cambelt change
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v6 cambelt change
when changing the cambelt on a mazda bongo v6 do you have to replace the idler and tensioner
for the cambelt
for the cambelt
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I had the crank and cam seals done when i had mine changed but at over £900
didn't have the tensioners done.
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Recommend you read my two postings here, before thinking of tackling a V6 cambelt change - also buy the workshop manual (£55 to Bongo Fury members) from the Bongo Shop, if you then still want to tackle it. Clearly not one for the faint hearted.
http://www.igmaynard.co.uk/bongo/forum/ ... 6f#p356459
http://www.igmaynard.co.uk/bongo/forum/ ... 6f#p356558
As regards the idler and tensioner, there are two idlers, one per camshaft, and all the manual says is to change the auto tensioner if it's either leaking oil or, after removal, its protruding area is found to have worn to below 16-18 mm free length. If I were doing it (which I definitely won't ever be!), I would buy a tensioner beforehand in case.
http://www.igmaynard.co.uk/bongo/forum/ ... 6f#p356459
http://www.igmaynard.co.uk/bongo/forum/ ... 6f#p356558
As regards the idler and tensioner, there are two idlers, one per camshaft, and all the manual says is to change the auto tensioner if it's either leaking oil or, after removal, its protruding area is found to have worn to below 16-18 mm free length. If I were doing it (which I definitely won't ever be!), I would buy a tensioner beforehand in case.
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Bitch of a job
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Pay someone who has the right tools, has done it before, knows what he's doing, and is happy to do it again - not just "someone". Phone around the Bongo-friendly garages list to that end, assuming you're a full Bongo Forum member, and have access - if not, join by clicking top centre, £12 per annum. For example, the very highly respected Wheelquick simply did not want to tackle mine as of October last year - may now have changed though.cheffy34 wrote:Bitch of a job![]()
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Ron Miel wrote:Pay someone who has the right tools, has done it before, knows what he's doing, and is happy to do it again - not just "someone". Phone around the Bongo-friendly garages list to that end, assuming you're a full Bongo Forum member, and have access - if not, join by clicking top centre, £12 per annum. For example, the very highly respected Wheelquick simply did not want to tackle mine as of October last year - may now have changed though.cheffy34 wrote:Bitch of a job![]()
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Sorry disagree why does it have to be a bongo garage
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Unfortunately, not everybody knows your mate - and my post does not say use a Bongo-friendly garage. It says phone round them to see if you can find somebody who meets the above and, obviously, who you are happy with and who charges a fair price. If not, try the milkman.cheffy34 wrote:....................the chances are your bongo friendly garage hasn't even done one.......my mate is a mechanic.........Ron Miel wrote:Pay someone who has the right tools, has done it before, knows what he's doing, and is happy to do it again - not just "someone". Phone around the Bongo-friendly garages list to that end, assuming you're a full Bongo Forum member, and have access - if not, join by clicking top centre, £12 per annum. For example, the very highly respected Wheelquick simply did not want to tackle mine as of October last year - may now have changed though.cheffy34 wrote:Bitch of a job![]()
pay someone
2001-V6-LPG-AFT-black on silver-Imperial Purbeck camper
(Ron miel=honey rum from the Canaries)
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You replace them if they are worn/faulty.when changing the cambelt on a mazda bongo v6 do you have to replace the idler and tensioner for the cambelt
Allan's closed. in Plymouth we recommend PGS (Plymouth Garage Services) or Mayflower Auto Services
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you got it pal only change when they are faulty.had mine done by a pal at 100k they were fine.
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ps , mazda say its very rare they change them,
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You are quite correct Ron you are unfortunate not to know my mate so maybe your milkman would be the best option in this case, and when i say pay someone that doesn't mean the milkman or paperboy it is a generalisation of the professionals that deal with these type of things on a daily basis but what it does highlight is there's nothing like "local" recommendation in my eyes, after all we are not all lucky enough to live near the mighty wheelquick and other good bongo friendly garages are we
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No, we're not.cheffy34 wrote:You are quite correct Ron you are unfortunate not to know my mate so maybe your milkman would be the best option in this case, and when i say pay someone that doesn't mean the milkman or paperboy it is a generalisation of the professionals that deal with these type of things on a daily basis, but what it does highlight is don't trust all the suggested apparent specialist garages that you phone eithernothing like "local" recommendation in my eyes, after all we are not all lucky enough to live near the mighty wheelquick and other good bongo friendly garages are we
However, I suspect that most of us, who don't have mates like yours, do believe that a careful vetting of garages previously recommended by forum members to become "Bongo-friendly-listed", is a better starting point than just taking your Bongo to any local garage with a good reputation - but which has never seen a Bongo.
I've tried both approaches and, based on that experience, I would rather travel 40 miles or more, to either Wheelquick or a couple of other Bongo-friendlies at similar distances, than stay local just because it is local - or even, as recommended by you, because I choose not to trust Bongo Fury's well established system.
Peeps travel down from Scotland to get their Bongo work done at Wheelquick, for example, and I know that others often travel long distances to get Bongo work done properly at other Bongo-friendly garages, of their choice and/or on the strong recommendations of others. Why sit there, trying to undermine a system which has been carefully assembled for our benefit, and which I'm sure works much better overall than just saying "I just don't trust the whole system, therefore I'll go to anyone but a listed Bongo-friendly garage"? That's what you are apparently advocating.
Finally, I'll repeat what I said previously but with even more emphasis - anybody who puts their precious V6 into the hands of somebody who does not have the proper tools, including the special extractor tool (designed to work in a confined space BTW), to change its cambelt, deserves any problems which may result.
Cheers.
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Re: v6 cambelt change
So as I was planning on getting mine done in the spring - does anyone know of a garage that HAS done a V6 cam belt change?
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Following on from the recent postings in this thread - I'd probably be prepared to travel a LOOONNNNNNGGGGG way to a garage that I felt OK with.
Regards Grahame
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Following on from the recent postings in this thread - I'd probably be prepared to travel a LOOONNNNNNGGGGG way to a garage that I felt OK with.
Regards Grahame
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Discount Trucks in Newbury did mine, long way from you though.
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Hi there, i believe Ian Taylor Uk Ltd has changed a few, quite a way from me though, but i'd travel for piece of mind.