Running a vehicle from a refillable cylinder

[mat_fenwick]

It's been a while since I was on here last - I've been spending most of my time on a (non-LPG) project vehicle which has now hit the road for the first time in 10 years!



Anyway back to the question - some years ago we had a V8 Discovery which ended up a bit battered after a roll down a hillside (long story - I wasn't driving). I'd converted it to LPG and it was mechanically very good so we kept it as a source of spares for the replacement Disco. I'm slightly itching for another project, and it stuck me that getting the bent one working again would make an ideal firewood collector up in the forest behind us. It's all logging tracks so no need to be road legal, which is just as well!

There is still some gas in the tanks, and it actually fired up and ran well last night once I'd run a switched live to the gas solenoids. However, given that it's unlikely to ever go on a public road again, what do I do when it runs out? Is it as simple as swapping one of my Calor bottles (I have many!) for the forklift liquid take-off type, and connecting it appropriately to the existing pipework? Obviously mounting the cylinder securely in the back.

Cheers for any thoughts anyone might have...

[Gilbertd]

I don't see why not. It won't be going on the road so a CoP11 compliant install or an entry on the Register won't be required by the insurance company as there won't be one.

[Tubbs]

I did a conversion for a chicken farmer a while back. Cheap open loop on a rangey classic with a bottle upside down in the boot area. About a year later I see it on tesco car park.
He told me it was never leaving the farm !

[mat_fenwick]

Was that just with a standard bottle then? What fittings did you use?

Don't think this one would go on the public road without police attention!





I've now managed to straighten the driver's door aperture out enough to fit a replacement door - that should stop the weather getting in so much that side (although it's a Landy, I'm not hopeful of ever getting it watertight!)


Windscreen is another issue, if I can get hold of a reasonably priced used one (even a chipped MOT fail) I'll probably plonk it in with a load of Sikaflex.

[Gilbertd]

I like the precision hydraulic body straightening ram..... Where my mate lives in France he's on top of a mountain with a private road for access. The road has tubular barriers at each end but one of them is always left open, or usually it is, but one night someone had closed it. He hit it in his Disco 1 at around 20 mph right across the middle of the windscreen. Smashed windscreen and bent both screen pillars. Cut the windscreen out, attached a chain to each pillar, attached the other end to a tree and reversed at speed. Once a new screen had been fitted you can't see it ever happened except on the inside. Tough old buggers aren't they?

[mat_fenwick]

Yeah, to be fair it stood up to the roll pretty well - this was the terrain it encountered.



Not sure I'll get the repairs looking invisible, but I've made a bit more progress!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRqHzs0irPA

(As you may be able to tell from the video, I've raided part of the exhaust for the green one, as annoyingly it was replaced only a couple of months before the incident. And I did a top end engine rebuild...)

I've also managed to straighten out the passenger door aperture in much the same way as the driver's, although with a touch more hammering. Found a windscreen on eBay for just over £30, so I'll have a crack at fitting that when (if?) the weather allows.

[Tubbs]

Reckon a bit of polish and a mop will have the old girl good as new

[Gilbertd]

Nowt a bit of T cut won't sort out......