Bongo Fury

Are any of you techies able to explain why my local Ford dealer tells me that the service interval for a Ranger is 6,000 miles, but the Bongo book says 5,000 kms (3,150 miles) for the Bongo/Freda? I thought they had the same engine. OK the Bongo is a bit of a lump, but the Ranger's no lightweight either. Better cooling on a Ranger given that the engine is in the breeze up front, not tucked away in the middle?

Maybe cos its pushing out nearly 40% extra power pistonbroke

Is that right Dandy? Do you know what gives the Bongo the extra power?

I thought they had the same power output

The cylinder head is different,probably a better flowing item. It will house a different profile cam also,well, the automatics will anyway...

Sorry.got my figures wrong there it's about 20% more power - 109 PS for the Ranger/B2500 and 130 (ish) for the Bongo

LIke bigdaddy says............could be in the head/cam design and turbo boost. If it's in the head then I have my doubts whether the new heads advertised on Fleabay are as suitable
Anyone confirm/deny this?

I have had mine serviced every six months for the last three years and not had any problems yet, to me it seems 6 months is just about right.Happy motoring.

We are soon approaching our first six months. She came with full service, and cambelt change. We have done relatively little mileage 1000-1500 miles. What should we be booking her in to have done?

How do you blokes know all this stuff!!!!??? Must clear the c**p out of my head to make room for Bongoknowledge

Personally i service at 3000 miles, or every six months,whichever arrives sooner. I go a bit over the top with servicing on my cars,my everyday hack is a ford focus turbo diesel estate, which is now showing well over 200,000 miles i service that every 5000 miles, and have never had any reliability problems, which i like to put down to my strict servicing schedule...