Thread: Big LPG tanks 200L +

Originally Posted by Hardchina

600 lbs = 600L

you'd want to use a filler with the hold in catch thing for that !

It probably means 600lb water capacity, which is 218 litres of LPG. The tank I have was off an old Bedford and I can't see anything twice the size fitting on one of them.

Originally Posted by bee utey

It probably means 600lb water capacity, which is 218 litres of LPG. The tank I have was off an old Bedford and I can't see anything twice the size fitting on one of them.

As far as I can recall, its nominal capacity was 600 lbs. of LPG. It was larger than the round 100 gallon distillate tanks used on most line haul prime movers at that time. The KMR-XT5 was a single drive prime mover with 6V53 Detroit, RT610 Road Ranger, and an Eaton rear axle. To fit the gas bottle, the fuel tank on that side had to be taken off.

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

As far as I can recall, its nominal capacity was 600 lbs. of LPG. It was larger than the round 100 gallon distillate tanks used on most line haul prime movers at that time. The KMR-XT5 was a single drive prime mover with 6V53 Detroit, RT610 Road Ranger, and an Eaton rear axle. To fit the gas bottle, the fuel tank on that side had to be taken off.

That is big.

Originally Posted by bee utey

That is big.

It had to be big as there were few servos outside the major cities then that sold bulk gas.

I have had little to do with LPG other than in camping size cylinders and appliances since then. I do recall that bottles then were sized by nominal capacity in lbs. weight. The normal domestic cylinder was 100lbs.

At that time there was a bonnetted Oshkosh with a big 6 cylinder gas engine, I think it was a Waukesha, that ran Sesame Street, and it carried two of the 600 lb. bottles. I spoke to the owner once at Repco and he told me he had seen these engines used as well head and pipeline pump engines in the USA running on gas straight from the well. He was impressed with the fuel consumption figures and got an Oshkosh custom built on an order from the Australian distributor. He did say that fuel cost per mile was well below the cost of a diesel engine of similar output. Never saw him again and never saw another truck in this configuration so I don't know what the subsequent history was.