Nate,
Thanks for this careful walk through of this LP gas conversion system.
This thing has not been cranked in a number of years. Because it had been running on LP I am thinking it might not have a gummed up carb or stale fuel issues that could create start up problems. Am I right about that one?
Other must do's before I try and crank this sucker?
I know about the battery water and oil, fluids ect. but not sure about weather to give it a shot of raw gas, starter fluid or LP.
Chip
Houston
--- In diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com, "Nate" <vwnate1@...> wrote:
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> They use a very simple yet weird carby , some have dual fuel capacity , others only run CNG once converted .
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> Do the basic tune up stuff first then look at the electric fuel cut off valve , it's a safety device that clogs up with rust silt and other dry powdery crap that the CNG folks say doesn't exist.....
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> It sure caused many of the old LAX CNG Fleet to come to a halt .
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> The carby was super simple yet tricky to adjust so resist touching or cleaning it until it simply refuses to run & you have done _EVERYTHING_ELSE_ .
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> I remember very little apart from the hours of frustration trying to make vehicles no one else could fix , run , in time I did it but I'd suggest maybe you go to Pick-A-Part and replace the original carby as they ran really well on pump gas once you cleaned and adjusted them , yes , even those danged Carter Thermo-Quad plastic carbys were pretty good once sorted out .
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> Other Dodge carbys have adjustable metering rods that some damnfool always cranked all the way out to have more power , then they'd smoke black , run too rich , foul spark plugs , load up and clog catalytic exhaust converters and fail SMOG tests so expect some serious fiddling before this old truck runs sweet & strong , well worth the effort IMO .
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> -Nate
> Chip wrote:
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> > So this is off topic, I have been given an RV that runs off of natural gas. Some of you guys know about this conversion. What am I getting into trying to get this RV up and running again? It has not run in 20 years. I think the engine is a Dodge 360 but am not sure. Vogue 30 foot, 1986 vintage.
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> > Hey, it was free!
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> > Chip
> > Houston
> > Now with a constant storage bill......next best thing to owning a wood boat.
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