Would be worth checking valve clearances again now you’ve run it up don’t know if there’s a hot gap setting or if it’s just from cold. From memory doing old ford engines those lock nut adjusters are a pain would have thought they would be hydraulic very primitive

I just wondered about the belt like if it was a new one on there someone might have done something wrong

Did it have a new belt on it when you got it

It must suck a bit of air somehow

Both is not normally the head gasket but you might be lucky. The temp gauge on a bongo is generally useless if it moves toward the danger end its generally to late I think there’s a Chinese made head available don’t know how good it is not sure if a ranger head goes straight on someone on here will ...

I think you need to take head off I reckon that’s the issue normally the head cracks if you get an overheat issue

Sounds like a wankel rotary engine

Also while I had the cluster apart I bought a float switch cut hole in expansion tank put float switch in there and plumbed wiring into back of cluster into an unused symbol on left or right side so if level dipped it would light up. It never did dip but I would randomly test it by poking it down a ...

I’ll dig through old hardrive see if I can find them worked really well to

I did a mod on my previous bongo bought a digital temp gauge and sensor got an ally t piece which screwed into head so I could use new sender and original. Took dash gauges out and cut digi gauge into a gap on the right hand side of temp gauge so it was nicely in eye line perfect and had modded orig...

I’ll pm you my bank details and you can tell me your address

I reckon £30 should cover it I could send it of Monday let me know cheers

We will be driving old Tesla’s where the dead battery pack has been junked and a diesel bongo engine transplanted 😀. I know the fossil fuel era is coming to an end but the battery powered cars are using finite minerals dug out of the earth so it seems like we’ve not really done anything different an...

But then you will probably never buy a bongo, there will be rot in almost all of them, to be fair you’re looking probably at a 19 year old vehicle which even if it had all the right services is still no guarantee of motoring bliss. at the end of the day if you pick it up for £4K usable for a year ge...

Also these pumps are responsible for the injection timing so they are reasonably complex to the point where they could be party to the problem unlike the common rail rotary pumps which purely just supply pressure