It took me a while to realise there was no brake modulator or pump too. That said - my vapouriser is on the same side mounted above the brake pump. Fits in nicely. Wiring could do with some tidying up one day.

Just to rub salt in, this morning I'm back in the P38 and on the way to work, the chequebook appears too. It's a bit late to the party mind - the distribution motor has been getting stuck for months. Maybe something else has pushed it over the edge, I couldn't be arsed plugging it in.

Chequebook's been up on mine since I bought it! Works fine apart from the lack of chilled air cos of the firking great hole in the condenser! I've sort of got used to living with it, but its another non-essential repair/ enhancement on the list that's pushing me toward buying a better one and not throwing any more pounds at the current one

While we're listing our ills.... mine has started sitting down at the front every night. EAS works perfectly otherwise.
Also, my wife reversed it into a tree so there's a nice little dent near the N of RANGE on the tailgate.

Morat wrote:

While we're listing our ills.... mine has started sitting down at the front every night. EAS works perfectly otherwise.
Also, my wife reversed it into a tree so there's a nice little dent near the N of RANGE on the tailgate.

Take off the N in RaNge then the dent will be nicely framed with RA GE

Or leave the N but take off the G, E and R so it reads, RAN OVER.......

Add a spattering of clown hair dangling under the bumper...

Sloth wrote:

Add a spattering of clown hair dangling under the bumper...

Very topical :-)
Not had a chance to flatten any killer clowns down here yet!

Just had another thought on this. My LPG coolant outlet returns into the header tank hose (20). I was going to replace this hose and move the return to the metal heater core return pipe on the engine. Instead, could I not leave the return where it is, and instead, disconnect the metal pipework down by the thermostat by replacing the three way hose (red) arrangement between stat, heater core return metal pipework and heater tank metal pipework, and replacing it with a bit of hose (green) between stat and header tank metal pipework?

As in crude image:

Trying to remove possible air lock locations and simplify the pipework. The metal heater return pipework would just sit there disconnected and obviously empty.

Not quite sure I follow that. Where do you intend plumbing the reducer?

It's already plumbed in to return exactly where 20 is pointing to, which is quite neat and out of the way.

With massive thanks to Marty, yesterday we swapped my heater box, core, and replumbed the whole cooling system... by chance, we found the cause of my cold heater at idle, and it wasn't the LPG plumbing.

Heater box and core swap was the straight forward bit. It was when we got to changing the heater return and expansion tank line as I'd said about to put the vapouriser in series with the heater and simplify things a bit, Marty decided to remove the thermostat entirely to fit a hose on (coolant all drained as I had new top/bottom/pump hoses to chuck in too). Then he saw this...

Just cut it apart to see from the other side:

Pretty thick defect:

That be the heater/expansion return port... as you can see, not much is getting through that!

As luck would have it, Marty had a new spare Britpart or possibly Bearmach stat in his stash, so we took a chance on that, and put it back together leaving the LPG in parallel. The ID on the ports on my OMVL vapouriser is really, really small. Given the restriction on the stat, it seemed logical to stay parallel. Because my car is weird though, the expansion/heater return hose wasn't standard, and doesn't look like the normal Thor part, so we improvised and lost the metal pipework and old rubber hoses. It's nice a simple now, just need to get a 19-19-19mm T to replace a few bits we had to stick together to join things up.

Most importantly... no leaking heater, and heat at idle! Plenty of it. I was quite excited :)