I don't think anyones dying statement ever contained the words "I wish I had spent more time in the office", so lets go somewhere!
We'll try to help..at least steer you in the right direction, anyway
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'73 Concord 20' Class A w/Dodge 440 - see profile for photo
I am happy to be alive this morning!
PROPANE IS DANGEROUS.
So as you may remember I am trying to seal up the doghouse nice and tight. Considering removing sections of my engines propane conversion. Yesterday Im out there working along and I decide to go and seeif I can read my gauge on the 100# tank to see how much I have left. No sense to waste a bunch of propane if the tank is still full. PO didnt know and the guage is impossible to read. (I have since fixed it)
So I have a knob for the house and a knob for the engine at the tank. I hear a funny tiny little ticking sound. Sounds like the float maybe, could be a leak. I decide to open the valve to the engine. Just crack it to see if I can determine/stop the ticking/leak.
PSSSSTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!! I get sprayed with a cloud of propane coming out of the knob. I turn off the knob and IT DOESNT HELP. Propane is shooting out and dripping onto the ground below.
Luckily:
1- I had unplugged all power etc when I heard the tick.
2- I am not a smoker, and did not have a lit cigarette hanging from my mouth.
I know it takes more than one might think to actually ignite propane in a situation like this but IT WAS SCARY NONETHELESS!!
I ran away. actually I ran and grabbed the fire ext from behind the pass seat, and removed the laptop and phones from inside Cenote.
It did slow after a few minutes and the residual gas and pressure disperesed.
It was holding enough to drive to the local propanery to have them burn off the tank (ugh 85# of propane wasted) and then I plugged the tank. Dont need it to feed the engine as the conversion is in-op at this time.
BE CAREFUL.
***1980 19' American Clipper 719F Luxur Van w/440***
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Keep those extinguishers handy, boys and girls!
She ain't purdy, but at least she's slow!
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1972 Mobile Traveler 20' Dodge B300 Class C
"The Kobayashi Maru" Trans- Prarie Land Craft
"Requiescat in pace et in amore..."
PW do you think that I could cut my trans oil dipstick tube and dipstick all the way so that it doesnt run through my engine compartment?
I would orient it so that it goes to the side and I would have to climb underneath to check it. Sounds crazy I know but it would make things so much easier for me to reduce the sound and the heat issues I have.
Where it runs, across the pass side valve cover, it sits up against the side of the doghouse, prevents much insulation from being installed between it and the doghouse and burns/melts most insulation that gets put there.
Even the outside cover is scortched on its inside!
79powerwagon wrote:
...and some of them MIGHT be correct answers
Griff in Fairbanks wrote:
We're ready and waiting with - hopefully - answers.
ALnCORY wrote:
Will probably be asking lots of questions of you all.
Will probably be asking lots of questions of you all.
We're ready and waiting with - hopefully - answers.
...and some of them MIGHT be correct answers
Welcome, ALnCory, and remember...
.... even if they're not "correct," they'll be interesting ;-)
Tuesday is *the day* I drive the Travco home.
YES!
Around page 100-on of this missive are some posts dealing with the crossover pipe and what happens (extreme heat) when it plugs up.
Extreme heat kept me from buying a way cool '71 Dodge /Avion. It wouldn't've been worth it -- a grand in repairs before driving it home and then who knows what... Because high engine temps affect EVERYTHING.
...my, I'm being superlative today...huh.
Ce, your rig is a 74 and has the long dip sticks? My 73 uses short ones (I have to remove the dog house to check the tranny fluid). Maybe you can simply pop a set-up off a different van...