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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: Gaffers on 10 August 2011, 12:55:28
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I am in the process if fitting the lpg tank and I know they have to be set at an angle but there are no markings on it to show. Anyone have advice?
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What type of tank? If the liquid pickup wasn't pre-fitted you can see from the angle the pipe is bent at.
Some tanks have a line with an arrow showing the half way point. Still not desperately easy, though.
Manufacturer's web site might give the angle which you can measure with a spirit level.
In all honesty, though, it's not that critical.
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Cheers for that Kevin, I will see but I guess I will have to just suck and see. Not sure of the manufacturer and the pickup and guage are already installed as its a donor tank.
Another quick question. When fitting the bars to hold the tank could I replace the towbar bolts with longer ones and use them to affix one of the bars:
(http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll138/mrgaffney/Snapbucket/8bfa58ad-orig.jpg)
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I don't see why you shouldn't use the towbar bolts from a practical point of view. There's probably enough metal under them to cover the requirement for a spreader plate and, in any case, they are hardly likely to pull through the rear crossmember. ;D
EDIT: if the bars are hollow, though, you'll need a spacer in the centre of them to allow the bolts to be torqued up well without crushing them.
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I rotated mine fraction more than this photo shows, I now get slight over-fill of 74L in a 90L tank:
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/803897/Omega/LPG/FinalBits/DSC00701.JPG)
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Cheers for the advice Kevin and Mark.
The tank is in now, it may have too much heel but I will deal with that when it comes to filling up. I didn't use any spacers but mnaged to torque the bars up with one not bending at all and the other only slightly.
Now tomorrow I need to connect the filler to the tank while I wait for he missing parts from teilo. In the meantime I need to figure out how to connect the pipe to the unions.......
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you using Polyflex? Wiggle like hell! ;D
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Polyflex isn't too bad but a couple of tips:
Have some boiling hot water handy and dip the end of the polyflex in it for a minute or two before assembling onto the hose union to soften it.
Smear a little fairy liquid onto the hose union to help it slide into place. The polyflex pipe should slide over the tapered section of the union until it buts up to the side of the hexagonal section.
The polyflex union then attaches to the valve / vapouriser / filler using a nut and olive (although a combination of adaptors might be required).