Bongo Fury

I have an annoying rattle seemingly around the front left corner of the Bongo. It's not a clunk like the ARBs, more like a rattle against plastic/bodywork. I can't replicate it when standing still and bouncing the front end around though, which is making hard to trace.

I've check all of the scrivets, bolts etc.... that I can see, but I was wondering if I've missed something. It sounds like it's coming from the outside, but I'm not 100%.

Does anybody have a suggestion as to what's causing the rattle?

Ta muchly.

Dom

something loose where the jack fits ?????????????????

dom_e wrote:I have an annoying rattle seemingly around the front left corner of the Bongo. It's not a clunk like the ARBs, more like a rattle against plastic/bodywork. I can't replicate it when standing still and bouncing the front end around though, which is making hard to trace.

I've check all of the scrivets, bolts etc.... that I can see, but I was wondering if I've missed something. It sounds like it's coming from the outside, but I'm not 100%.

Does anybody have a suggestion as to what's causing the rattle?

Ta muchly.

Dom

Had a similar thing with mine recently, sounded really bad and expensive. Turns out I hadn't fully wound in my roll out awning in.

Bottom section of the door card? (On the edge below the door pocket.) May have unclipped & come loose..?

I'll check the jack. It sounds further forwards than that, but certainly worth eliminating. The door card area sounds about right. I have had it off before to replace the speakers.

It kinda sounds like plastic vibrating against metal, tapping. Driving me nuts now! Will have another prod around now.

Ta so far.

Dom

Check your coolant header tank as i had a plasticy rattling noise the day prior to mine overheating but as soon as the coolant was topped up it stopped the noise, strange but true

Scary indeed!

The coolant level as fine. The - lead from the leisure battery was a bit loose and rattling against the header tank, so I've zip tied that on anyway. Don't think it's that though. Will drive tomorrow and find out more.

front pulleys on the aircon/crank/alternator,maybe.or the bottom hose coming back from the rad to the steel pipe over the axle area is connected to the chassis via 2 little rubber mountings,these peel off from the mounting point and can tap/rattle.check them carefully.

I didn't get a chance to drive and assess today. I'll check the coolant hoses later.

Do you have wheeltrims fitted? It might be worth whipping them off and make sure something hasn't come adrift before you get the spanners out...

I crawled underneath the front and checked the hoses - all seemed well. I'll check the wheel trims later. I have bashed them all to see if they're rttling, but will whip them off and re-install to double check.

dom_e wrote:I crawled underneath the front and checked the hoses - all seemed well. I'll check the wheel trims later. I have bashed them all to see if they're rttling, but will whip them off and re-install to double check.

Hi,
It might be worth checking your wheel nuts,making sure there is not any rattling about in the wheel trim.

I finally tracked it down to the leisure battery tray. I had initially dismissed it after wobbling it around, but double checked to find that the tray had broken at the bolt holding it to the chassis beneath the header tank. This bolt was also holding the leisure battery negative.

Am happy.

Thats good buddy now we can all sleep soundly in our beds

Thought maybe it was this chappie on the right...?



Cheap fix then!