Don't you just hate it when you don't know what the problem is?

I had a lot of my car's LPG system apart yesterday. Over time a couple of mesh filters get blocked with carbon - I dunno where it comes from, I guess that it occurs naturally in the gas.

Yesterday I took the regulator/heat exchanger off to clean it out. I put it all back together and all was OK when I drove it around the block. However, by yesterday afternoon, it had decided that it wasn't running on LPG anymore but I couldn't see any obvious reason.

I thought about it all last night and couldn't think what I could have done that caused it to stop running. I HATE that feeling!!

So this morning I started taking it apart again and quickly found the problem. The throttle slider in the gas distributor had jammed closed, no doubt because of some upstream sh1t I had dislodged yesterday. So I had all of the gas distributor apart, cleaned it up with copious quantities of carb cleaner and all is once again well with the world. I LOVE that feeling!



Greg

I often find its better to walk away from a problem for a while, have a smoke and a coffee. It's usually obvious once you go back to it.

With the job I've got at the moment I only get called to problems that others have given up on. I must admit I quite enjoy it.

Rob Farmer said:

I often find its better to walk away from a problem for a while, have a smoke and a coffee. It's usually obvious once you go back to it.

With the job I've got at the moment I only get called to problems that others have given up on. I must admit I quite enjoy it.

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Yep, much better to walk away from the LPG before having a smoke

LPG in bottles (calor etc) is a very dirty fuel, so I would guess the big tanks suffer the same contamination

Shep

I hate tinkering with my own vehicles.

An instance - Nothing to do one day, so you start off replacing an injector washer that has a slight blow on your diesel car. End up pulling the head off and replacing the headgasket, just because i'd nothing to do and thought "why not while i'm working on it". .
Good job i had something to do the following day, or i'd have carried on stripping it down.

Steptoe said:

I hate tinkering with my own vehicles.

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.....which for the uninitiated includes a 911 Turbo Porsche which hasn't turned a wheel since 2005. It's an interesting driveaway.

When did he fit the turbo????