Bongo Fury

When I bought my Bongo a few years ago the garage assured me they had carried out a full service including changing the cambelt. Today I removed the cambelt...

Thing is, what's a 'few years'?

Bought April 2014. Headgasket blew June 2017 and it hasn't moved since then. We'd covered about 30k miles in that time. I'm trying to get it back on the road now so I'm finally tackling the engine to see if it's worth fitting a new head or if this van is too far gone to bother now. The block looks pretty clean luckily but even if the engine is ok the body still needs a lot of welding. I'd say the head was cracked when we bought it though and has been patched up with sealant of some kind.

Wow!

Do you need to go and renew the water pump as part of a cam belt change as well? Or does the water pump run separately?

oibaf wrote: Tue Jun 01, 2021 11:20 am Wow!

Do you need to go and renew the water pump as part of a cam belt change as well? Or does the water pump run separately?

On the diesel models the water pump doesn’t run off the timing belt. Not sure about the petrol models?

Same for the V6 petrol model its driven with the other belts, not sure about the 2l. ....... yes 2l is driven from the timing belt so the only one.

Probably worth doing when the front of the engine is in bits anyhow.

I did the waterpump about a year before the head gasket blew. I should probably give it a once over while the engine is in bits though. All the coolant hoses, pipes, rad, thermostat etc had been replaced while I was tracking down where the water was slowly disappearing to. I guess the head gasket was weeping just enough keep losing coolant but not enough to fail.