I'm considering a rear awning and Ive looked at a few online, does anyone have advice on the best type for the bongo. What I'm really after is an awning that attaches so that you can close the rear hatch and drive away, something quick and easy to errect and remove, the ones I've looked at seem to a...

Sorry just checked and there is a download of the fuses on the members section

Looks like fuse number 8 and is 15A controlling both cigar sockets, mirrors and radio.

Does anyone know what is the max current you can draw from the rear cigar lighter socket? In other words what else is on the cigar socket circuit and what value fuse protects it?

I have a dark limo tint on mine and the rear mirror is very difficult to see in anything other than good daylight. However as I have reversing camera this is not a problem.

Great advice NB I'll order up those rubber boots from Mazda. Thanks again.

10 min job for a garage mate if your not that handy. Jack up one side front. Remove wheel. Support with suitable axlestand and let hub hang but support lightly with a trolley jack remove the split pin. Fully remove nut. Split the joint then with a fine flat screwdriver lift off rubber. Lubricate . ...

Many Thanks NB, how would I go about changing the rubbers, is it a difficult job? Do I need special tools? Etc.

Bongo passed MOT today, only advisories were slight blow from rear exhaust back box and slight cracking of ball joint rubbers. Based on age and condition of the wishbones would I be better off getting a set of wishbones from club shop will ball joints already fitted? How easy are they to change? Any...

All sorted, had to grind off two of the bolts, put new bolts with nylock nuts throughout. MOT booked for late this afternoon so fingers crossed.

the nuts are not really the problem, its that they are bolted to studs that are welded to a backplate that is part of the axle, so if the bolt is tight and the stud breaks then you have to drill out and fit a standard bolt. you can see the 4 studs in this link. http://lushprojects.com/bongopartsmk2...

Thanks Mike, I gave the drop links a good squirt with WD40 earlier and will again tomorrow morning before I start.

If I do have to grind them off are they pretty standard to get hold of?

It's that time of year again the MOT looms....Rear drop links will need doing, I bought them some time ago, planning to fit them tomorrow.

Does anyone know the torque setting when I tighten up new bolts or is it a case of as tight as you can

Many thanks.

#-o It's no good Northern Bongolow, I had to strip it down again, I wasn't happy with leaving the vacuum pipe taped up, so took the tube to local motor factors, they had a slightly bigger external diameter tube but it had the same internal diameter, so I changed all the vacuum tubes. The one that co...

Good advice NB

Thanks NB, Yes mine is an early 95 bongo with winter pack and short section exhaust, I don't think the EGR has been blanked off, I noticed all the vac pipes have gone hard at the ends or were they made like this? I wouldn't have thought so prob due to age,heat etc. Anyway I taped the small split up ...