Takeoff for LPG vapouriser ..

Post by **JustinMinor1000** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 5:43 pm

In theory this should come from the heater feed and on most cars you end up with a plastic T-Piece in the rubber hose that goes to the Heater (so it's before the thermostat).

If I did that on a moggie then I would have to leave the heater tap open all the time which would make summers a little warm

Does anyone know of a supplier for a "Flange T piece" of the correct size to fit on the back of the engine? I guess the best would be a pair of flanges (so that the tap was 1 1/2 inches or so up) and a serated T so that the vapouriser could be attached with a jubillee clip.

The return does a "straight" T to the hose on the radiator .

Does anyone have any ideas how or where to do this ?

Post by **wanderinstar** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 10:37 pm

I have teed into the supplyfrom the heater valve, As you say this makes the heater valve redundant. So I have fitted a tap under the dash in the heater feed. I got this from EuropaSpares, a kit car spares firm, they are on www.europaspares.com. You can get the valves either cable or hand operated. The return I first teed into the heater return on the bottom hose,this made the remaining piece too short between the tee and the main hose, It split on the junction after a few weeks. New hose fitted ,this time tee into end of hose,metal return pipr bent up and a short length of hose fitted between metal pipe and tee. Been okay for 18 month and still looking good.
Good luck,
Wanderinstar.

Post by **Alec** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 12:01 pm

Hello JM,

do you still have the blank at the front of the cylinder head? , i.e. no extra temperature gauge. If so you could screw in a pipe adapter (3\8" BSP as a guess?) and take your feed from there.

Alec

Post by **JustinMinor1000** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 10:00 pm

Alec wrote:Hello JM,

do you still have the blank at the front of the cylinder head? , i.e. no extra temperature gauge. If so you could screw in a pipe adapter (3\8" BSP as a guess?) and take your feed from there.

Alec

I do, that is a much better idea than the Heath Robinson contraption I was thinking of to make. The flow would in theory be a little on the light side for the vapouriser I'm useing. On the other hand I could fit a solenoid into the output and wire it into the circuit. This would mean that all starts would be on petrol in winter but that's not so terrible ..