LPG Discussion Forum

Hi Chaps

Had the old girl since this time last year and no issues with the LPG till now and just to be clear, this is not a cold start issue, it starts fine from cold and switches over to gas after a few miles, runs fine. What then happens (on occasions) is if I stop for a few minutes say to pop ...

Motor has developed an annoying intermittent problem, runs fine but recently occasionally it wont run on LPG when you start it up when still warm, acts as if the tank is empty/low pressure, get up to 25-30 press the gas button and runs fine after that, doesn't cut out under load. Did it tonight and ...

Thanks for replies.

classicswede, ground clearance is fine, departure angle is different and is affected by angle from the rear wheels to the lowest point at the back of the car, with an LPG tank this is greatly reduced.

All the connections to the tank are at the front.

So are we saying there is ...

My D3 has a donut tank fitted underneath in place of the spare wheel, however unlike the spare wheel which sat at an angle almost flush with the bumper at the back, the tank is fitted level seriously compromising the departure angle when off-road. Now I cant see any physical reason why the tank cant ...

My local guy has said he cant fit electronic flashlube fro £150 or "German Oiler" for £350, any thoughts is one system really £$200 better than another.

Bill

Thanks will find some local to do it and book it in asap.

On the verge of getting a Discovery 3 V8 4.4 that has a Prins lpg set-up. Its currently in the garage having reconditioned heads fitted due to a valve seat problem, as far as I know it hasn't got valve lube fitted, would it be worth doing this?

It's a romano 5-6-8 cylinder cpu but that's all I can see on the box.

Apparently he is waiting for the parts, but is concerned that it will need programming and he doesn't have the "dongle" to do it.

Gave up trying to find the problem myself limited time, took it to the local LPG fitter, who has diagnosed a failed pressure sensor and he will try and get one for next week, not spoken to him yet to find out what the try is all about but assume it's a different system to the one he stocks and fits ...

Tubbs wrote:Solenoid stuck ? No gas getting to the reducer. So it's exhibiting low pressure.

Its what I wondered, if memory serves me it was replaced only a year or so ago.

Blacksheep wrote:Did you disconnect the battery at all or use jump leads ?

Yes and yes.

My Discovery has decided it's empty of gas despite it being full.

Background, went out the other day filled up with gas and petrol, went to start, nothing but the odd relay click, starter motor gone completely. Got her recovered home, disconnected battery, fitted a new starter, started fine but ...

Took it into the garage and it's been fixed not collected it yet but according to the girl on the phone it was the LPG valve.

Cheers

All I can tell you is it has Romano injectors and a magic 3 reducer, the ECU is positioned in such a way I cant see the plate on the side. The system was already fitted to the motor when I got it 4 years ago and the magic 3 reducer added with larger diameter pipe when we upgraded the engine from 4.0 ...

Exactly the same, beep beep beep and the lights flashing in sequence from red to green.

Right been out, did a mile and and it "run out of gas", stopped at the petrol station to fillup on petrol and tried the gas again, it did two or three miles and "run out" again. The second time it went so suddenly it didn't even change over

I will check the fuse after dinner but looks like I'll ...

Unfortunately not for the LPG.

Going to pop out for a run and see what happens as after I fiddled with the change over switch the gas worked, now I wouldn't have thought that a faulty switch could trigger the flashing empty lights/beep or could it but my initial fiddle resulted in no lights ...

Seems that's no the problem after all, just started it up to follow Tubbs advice on filling the coolant, got up to temperature and it cut out again and didn't switch to petrol this time, just stopped dead.

Switch over has never been particularly slow Gilbert.

It's not much lower than the header tank.

Thanks

Bill

Thanks again. Will give that ago in the morning.

Bill

Well it was a tad low :oops: less than pint, started it up and revved up and it switched no problem (it was still warm from our run earlier), didn't realise water level was "that" critical. Will take it out for a run tomorrow just to be sure as I am off to Belgium on Thursday.

Thanks for your ...