Thread: 1985 County "Upgrade"

Originally Posted by sclarke

The pull cable wont pass.
It has to be manual by hand and direct on the gas tap, not by cable.

I need to check AS1496, there will be a copy at work. I tend to agree, plus its a bit awkward, so I've cut a hatch in the floor. If they argue the valve cant be accessed when I've got a load on, I'll argue its the same for a Rangie or commodore loaded up.

The more recent industrial installations I've done ( I work for an LPG distributor) all have had air operated emergency valve actuation. We used to use cables, but maybe thats changed. I know that they rusted up if not used. The LPG tankers I drove 20 years ago all had cable stops, but they were spring loaded and pulling the cable tripped a cam. You had to crawl under the truck to reset them.
I'm simply not up to date. I let the engineers do all that

The gas conversion is getting fitted tomorrow, fingers crossed.
Not much work on the project been done, this has been my garage for the last month. Its being fully underpinned under the house.




The red landie is hiding under the tarp..

Just read your entire thread. Your project looks great, wish I had the time and patience to complete something like that

DeeJay,

Came back to your thread after having looked at it earlier. Great build.

Thinking of digging out a basement workshop and your garage renos also interested me. Not to hijack the thread perhaps I can contact you via PM on the excavations and what is involved.

Originally Posted by slug_burner

DeeJay,

Came back to your thread after having looked at it earlier. Great build.

Thinking of digging out a basement workshop and your garage renos also interested me. Not to hijack the thread perhaps I can contact you via PM on the excavations and what is involved.

PM sent

Well the gas is fitted. Unfortunately the fitter ( Deacons) capitulated on trying to retain the twin air inlet arrangement. In fairness the other two fitters I got quotes off wanted to go to straight downdraft and then they avoided me anyway. - I think there were easier jobs around so I'm pretty happy with the conversion.
This is what it ended looking like after I cut out the bonnet.



Not to be beaten, I got to work to direct the air thru the snorkels.
I bought two old Holden air cleaners off a wrecker and started cutting.



I basically made two air inlets into the cleaner



And here is the end result.







Now to find an aluminium genius to make me a "bump"

Couple of other jobs, I made a cabinet for the air compressor out of a waterproof ammo box.




Its now mounted above the pass wheel



Also this heavy duty diff casing is fitted up.



Unfortunately the filler plug is a different size so the temp sensor will need to be refitted.

That air cleaner setup is ingenious

Well done mate !!

Pete

Well done
Have you thought about where your air compressor is going to draw air if its mounted in a water proof box and the over heating factor if run for long periods