Removing an LPG installation

[Steve 940]

Originally Posted by classicswede

If that is a white estate its a conversion I did 10+ years ago. It also had the 7th seats added and then later removed.

Hi Dai,

Yes indeed it is white, so probably is the very one you done.

I know the previous owner I bought it from had not used the LPG for at least 5+ years, and he believed the guy he bought if from hadn’t used it either.

Is there any way to tell if there is any gas in the tank?? Is removal a relatively straightforward process?? It is in storage on a farm currently, so had in mind to do the tank removal outside on a empty sugarbeet pad, then once ‘safe’ I can bring to my workshop to remove pipe works etc.

Cheers
Steve

[Nullifie]

On the LPG tank will be a cover made of aluminium that's fixed by a black knob, unscrew the knob and take off the cover. Then you will see a square brass part that's fixed with 4 screws. The middle of this part has a depression, and in that depression could be a meter that shows mechanicaly the % filling of the tank, then you could read how full the tank is. But it could be a electrical meter: reading this the electrical system of it has to work, and two possibilities could be: reading the filling with small LED at the switch-unit for LPG/Petrol, or if more sophisticated: the original fuel-gauge shows the LPG-filling then (but this system isn't used often). But a missing meter could also be possible. The surest test if there is LPG in the tank is by removing the brass piece and look if LPG comes out (see also my removal-description a few days ago, that in my opinion showed that removal of a LPG installation is a relatively straightforward process). If there isn't a leak I would espect to be LPG in it, but of course it could be that a previous owner bothered about LPG in the tank and already emptied it.

[Nullifie]

Here a picture of what I espect you will see after removing the aluminium cover. The square brass part in the middle of the picture is the one I referred to with the 4 screws in former post. In this picture no meter is present in the depression of the brass part (having a mechanical LPG-tank meter this could be put in it to read how full the tank is, it functions magnetically with a part in the tank below the brass part).

[Steve 940]

Originally Posted by Nullifie

On the LPG tank will be a cover made of aluminium that's fixed by a black knob, unscrew the knob and take off the cover. Then you will see a square brass part that's fixed with 4 screws. The middle of this part has a depression, and in that depression could be a meter that shows mechanicaly the % filling of the tank, then you could read how full the tank is. But it could be a electrical meter: reading this the electrical system of it has to work, and two possibilities could be: reading the filling with small LED at the switch-unit for LPG/Petrol, or if more sophisticated: the original fuel-gauge shows the LPG-filling then (but this system isn't used often). But a missing meter could also be possible. The surest test if there is LPG in the tank is by removing the brass piece and look if LPG comes out (see also my removal-description a few days ago, that in my opinion showed that removal of a LPG installation is a relatively straightforward process). If there isn't a leak I would espect to be LPG in it, but of course it could be that a previous owner bothered about LPG in the tank and already emptied it.

Many many thanks Nullfie,

I have printed this off for my first in my 'to do' list of jobs, sounds simple enough and I will have a look under the cover when I next go to the barnm to start her up.

Cheers
Steve