Weird intake stuff on Peugeot J5/Talbot Express engine-HELP

[froggy]

When I built mine I went about reducing as much electrical load as possible and put two big van batteries under the passenger seat . All lighting is led and the fridge is always using gas so I have 7days power to run everything including the propex heater and tv . Being able to park in camping fields on site works out a lot cheaper . I have a 130amp alternator so the leisure batteries soon come back up after a few days parked and i never need to hook up for power .

I have a set of covered pads that fill the gap between the windows and the van x sliding curtains to keep the heat in at night and with cab window screens on the insude it stays quite warm .

[delux]

What's missing from the complete LPG install guys? ChasR kevins Bolf

Someone has suggested I try keep it so I was wondering how far this is from being complete. I've got controls in the cab and nothing has been removed besides what may be missing from the engine bay.

[Bolf]

Its a basic inefficient mixer system , i'll see if i can find a diagram on google and post it here.

Mega simple

[Bolf]

www.gasidea.by/files/logas.pdf

Basically you have the mixer style on page 27 (not the exact model)

you should be able to work out what you have and if it was a closed loop lambda or not , (doubtful)

[ChasR]

Dec 2, 2016 18:40:13 GMT delux said:

What's missing from the complete LPG install guys? ChasR kevins Bolf

Someone has suggested I try keep it so I was wondering how far this is from being complete. I've got controls in the cab and nothing has been removed besides what may be missing from the engine bay.

Without an entire engine bay shot (and I'd probably ask you for more than that!) it's hard to say.

As Bolf has said it looks to be a Mixer LPG system, a basic and cheap way to convert a car onto LPG. These consist of a few main things generally.

Working back from the tanks

-LPG Tanks
-Multivalve unit on the tank
-Solenoid if not fitted onto the Multivalve unit.
-LPG lines going to the engine bay
-Solenoid ; this may be fitted onto the vapouriser
-Vapouriser - this turns LPG from its liquid state into a gas, thus its name. These generally use coolant to warm the LPG up, so you'd run the car on petrol for a while. The newer systems do this switching automatically.

This is where a few things connect to the vaopuriser

-Pipe to the mixer
-Mixer


-Coolant pipes from the Vapouriser to the coolant pipes, generally the heater matrix items.

If it were me and the issues I've had with working with someone's else's mess before I'd do one of a few things.

-Check the dates on the LPG tanks ; they are dated to last until a certain date. They probably would be OK, but that's up to you...
-If you are happy with the tanks and the multivalve units change the entire front end. On one car I spent more in time and almost as much in cash trying to make a poorly system work. If I wasn't so stupid and tight I'd have swallowed my pride, got a new front end part for the LPG system (basically, everything from the tanks forward) and changed the lot. Vapourisers are meant to be replaced (or on pricier items serviced every so often with a rebuild kit). On a couple I have changed or rebuilt it has made quite a difference.

That and people try to fit the cheapest LPG bits they can to save money, many which are strictly speaking not all that clever or sold by any LPG retailers because they are quite shoddy (Voltran used to be quite iffy years ago for example).

[delux]

So Ive discovered it's a single point open loop