Bongo Fury

dunslair wrote:

Welshcav wrote:Thats where it has been for the last 7 weeks or so Bill is fed up with it as am I and his mechanics are stumped by the faults!

My apologies.... Bill did mention that he had been wracking his brains to find out what the problem could be with a van he was trying to fix when we saw him at the Scottish Bash. I did'nt put two and two together There is a garage in Duff St lane, Edinburgh who are fairly bongo savey as well. May be worth doing a quick search for their number.

All the best

David.

Welshcav wrote:

dunslair wrote:

Welshcav wrote:Thats where it has been for the last 7 weeks or so Bill is fed up with it as am I and his mechanics are stumped by the faults!

My apologies.... Bill did mention that he had been wracking his brains to find out what the problem could be with a van he was trying to fix when we saw him at the Scottish Bash. I did'nt put two and two together There is a garage in Duff St lane, Edinburgh who are fairly bongo savey as well. May be worth doing a quick search for their number.

All the best

David.

Bill really has been good trying allsorts and didnt want it to beat him, whilst keeping the cost down for me, finally think he has had to admit defeat. Think I'll be heading South, Wheelquick is on route to my parents and 321 Away is near my pals so either one is an option once I get it back.

Thanks anyway

Karl

321Away wrote:Sure they havent piped something up wrong, if your getting a 1228 thats wastegate failure to open, and your turbo wont be spooling so its impossible not to have power loss, check they havent been crafty and swapped the pipes on the little atmospheric referance unit (rail next to the turbo, 1 plug,2 small pipes going vertically onto it) in which case it slams the wastegate full against the closed stops, and the ecu will see a fault as the boost sensor wont see rising/falling boost vacuum

dandywarhol wrote:This has been brought up in the past and I can't remember who it was. Similar symptoms to yours - I guess you have a fly by wire fuel pump??

It could be a long search, but you'll find an ansewer in the search facility unless someone remembers the post.

Out of curiosity, why did you remove the wastegate gasket??

Have you ever seen a new shape wastgate? its nothing like i've seen before and i was with MOD for 12 years and a well known F1 team for a year, the wastegate works on a rotational motion, between it and the wall is a steel multi-layer gasket, when the gasket gets old due to heating/cooling, it seperates and once it warms up it puts pressure on the face of the wastgate which means the louvres cant pivot and requires extra pressure to open/close the wastegate, which maybe a factor in the vacuum valve burning itself out, which in turn also stops the EGR, causing the 0400 fault, i've got some pics will post them later

Julian

Welshcav wrote: Garage say the fault codes are the same but there is no loss of power since the actuator was changed? Im not sure what to do next! The garage dont know either!!!

stilldesperate wrote:

Welshcav wrote: Garage say the fault codes are the same but there is no loss of power since the actuator was changed? Im not sure what to do next! The garage dont know either!!!

Mite be stating the obvious, but if it's running OK, have they tried resetting the fault codes?

SD

321Away wrote:yep variable vane type, which as you said does the opposite of a wastegate, rather than allow the gases to bypass the impeller they divert the gases onto it, explains the inverted action! The gasket applys pressureto the end which prevents a couple of blades from moving freely, and as they're all 'chained' it stops all movement, then the ecu 'turns off' the whole turbo vacuum circuit and the vehicle runs without its turbo. Which i whay i'm finding that David's car is an odd one, to be giving a fault code but without loss of power? unless they've piped up the control unit backwards which forces the vanes full open and holds them there

Julian