I'll be doing that Gilbertd. The one I have is going to be tricky to use without me buying a different temp sensor, even if it is directly comparable with the Zeta S how will I know that?!
Here's the pic of what I ordered from their site. You can see the difference in temp sensor...
I'm a bit hacked off as other half needs to use the car to pop up to Brighton to see #1 daughter this weekend, and if she has to do it on petrol it'll be a severe blow to the housekeeping.
From the picture it looks like there's a brass thing screwed in that the temperature sensor would push into. If you unscrew that does it leave the correct size threaded hole? The lack of male to male pipe to connect the inlet filter solenoid is a bit of a problem though but I suspect they expect you to mount the solenoid remotely and connect the two with a short length of copper pipe with nuts and olives on each end.
Gilbertd wrote:
From the picture it looks like there's a brass thing screwed in that the temperature sensor would push into. If you unscrew that does it leave the correct size threaded hole? The lack of male to male pipe to connect the inlet filter solenoid is a bit of a problem though but I suspect they expect you to mount the solenoid remotely and connect the two with a short length of copper pipe with nuts and olives on each end.
I'm not going to start dismantling it yet- I've a feeling that it'll be going back to Tinleys, so that they can send me what I paid for!
I can't even find any spec sheets for the one they sent!
Well, according to Tinley's:
"It is exactly the same unit - just with a different badge, if you remove the small brass adaptor in the unit, a standard Zavoli type temp sensor will screw in.
Apologies for any confusion but the Italian LPG equipment industry is going through significant change with many company buy outs etc - we actually have the Zavoli units badged in four different ways and it is a bit of a lottery as to which turns up when we order them!
Please let me know if there is any problem with the sensor but rest assured the unit is identical rather than equivalent so you should be able to get going today."
So I'll see in a bit when I get to the workshop. Need to finish the rear wheel bearings, brake pads, shocks and panhard fitting first.
As Tinley implied, lots of long established LPG bits / brands seem to have recently been rebranded as Tomasetto, I wasn't aware of this with the Zavoli reducers though, last time I bought one was probably early this year and was branded Zavoli.
For the temp sensor you might as well follow TT' and Gilbert's advice. I expect the brass bit is just a thread adaptor, if it's just in the location of a water temp sensor it won't cause any harm to the reducer to remove it anyway.
If your previous reducer solenoid was attached directly can you use that one's male/male adaptor?
The solenoid in your pic looks like the type that has 8mm inlet and outlet? Shiny chrome outlet and shiny nut at the opposite side of the solenoid? If so you can slacken the nut from the outlet and the solenoid will rotate around the shiny bits to allow orientation of the solenoid and it's inlet. 8mm Pipe fittings use 12mm thread.
Your reducer is listed as having 6mm pipe inlet, 6mm pipe fittings use 10mm thread.
Obviously if the solenoid has 12mm thread and reducer 10mm thread, to connect your solenoid directly to the reducer you'd need an M12/M10 male/male fitting. Male/male fittings come in a couple of lengths, you should really use the longer length with the shiny bits type solenoid because that type of solenoid valve has deep threads. I generally use a bit of gas paste when using a male male adaptor with this type of solenoid too.
Of course, if you have to go from 8mm pipe fitting on the solenoid to 6mm pipe fitting on the reducer, some type of adaptor would be necessary anyway even if you mounted the solenoid remote of the reducer. Easy enough if you had a few bits around, e.g. could just use a short length of 8mm equivalent Faro pipe with 6mm copper equivalent fitting on one end and 8mm copper equivalent fitting on the other but this probably won't help you! However, won't your existing solenoid and male/male adaptor work with the new reducer, or if you want to use the new solenoid won't the existing male/male adaptor work with the new solenoid?
Thanks Lpgc
I'll know later what mods are required and what existing bits I can reuse. Need to get brakes and stuff finished first :)
Distracted by finding a stress crack in a panhard rod mount, so welding took precedence over LPG today!
Tomorrow, however, I'll get stuck into it.