Bongo Fury

Hi Guys

I just got home and my radiator is leaking all the way along the top seal. Does anyone know the part number so I can order one here in Australia. If not does anyone know anywhere in the UK I can get one from. I need it urgently it's our only mode of transport at the moment.

Are they worth repairing?

cheers BongoMike.

These people are selling them on Ebay in UK http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MAZDA-BONGO-2 ... 45ff7740cc
It might be worth emailing them to see if they know the part number.
Failing that, can't your local Mazda dealer help?

Thanks for your help John. I've emailed him to see if he would post to oz.

I think I met you once. I used to live in Norwich and you dropped an under seat tray over, has your bongo got that pimped suspension?

Aha - I remember that I was, indeed, the one with the pimped suspension. I am now Bongoless (gone a bit bigger ) but still enjoy the club and the friends, old and new
Good luck with your search

DO NOT QUOTE ME

I could be wrong but i think it is the same rad as the diesal

worth checking out all the same


Dar

my thoughts on the rad, or anything else springing a leak under pressure is to replace the stat with a gen mazda one while the systems in bits too.

Thanks for all the advice guys, I managed to get the radiator out and it has been repaired, they took the top off and replaced the O ring. I'm going to refit it tomorrow.

Just one question when I took off a small pipes from the bottom which hold the oil in. Where do I top up this oil as I lost a few drops (not a lot)

cheers
Michael

It's the ATF oil for the gearbox. You fill up the via the dipstick tube located at the rear of the driver's side engine compartment. Do a search on here for how to check the level as it's a bit more complex that just reading the level of the dipstick.

bongomike wrote:Thanks for all the advice guys, I managed to get the radiator out and it has been repaired, they took the top off and replaced the O ring. I'm going to refit it tomorrow.

Just one question when I took off a small pipes from the bottom which hold the oil in. Where do I top up this oil as I lost a few drops (not a lot)

cheers
Michael

That is really interesting. Never heard of anyone managing (opting) to repair a leaking Bongo radiator by taking the top off and fitting a new O-ring. Heard stories about plastic top cracking and unit not being repairable, so thats a first for me. Well done that garage (the frontier spirit of Oz I reckon)

mikeonb4c wrote:

bongomike wrote:Thanks for all the advice guys, I managed to get the radiator out and it has been repaired, they took the top off and replaced the O ring. I'm going to refit it tomorrow.

Just one question when I took off a small pipes from the bottom which hold the oil in. Where do I top up this oil as I lost a few drops (not a lot)

cheers
Michael

That is really interesting. Never heard of anyone managing (opting) to repair a leaking Bongo radiator by taking the top off and fitting a new O-ring. Heard stories about plastic top cracking and unit not being repairable, so thats a first for me. Well done that garage (the frontier spirit of Oz I reckon)

This is one of the sad stories of the Motor Trade,at one time there was a buzzing industry in Britain repairing and reconditioning radiators. almost every large town had a repair centre or two.

Now that's interesting.

I assumed that there was some form of seal along the interface, call it an O ring generically, and that is indeed the case.

Presumably, after a time it deteriorates, probably because of the heat at the top of the rad.

Well, that's my theory, anyway, as I wouldn't like to have the bottom one go. At least the top seal is easy to check and repair with epoxy.

I wonder what the Australians used? A genuine replacement, a length off a roll, or something squeezed out of a tube?


Frank