Andy Burrell
Retired to the country
As I posted a while back I needed to have the lpg system on my Vogue SE serviced as the previous owner had not tried or used it, maybe. I put some gas in it and tried it, it ran lumpy at low speed and under acceleration but at a steady 50 it seemed better.
So last week I took it to a local specialist in lpg for assessment and repair. His assessment showed it is running rich and worse on one bank of cylinders than the other. This highlighted worn injectors but it now turns out the system is obsolete plus the injectors are fitted under the inlet manifold so they are impossible to get to without taking the manifold off. He did say what the make was but I can't remember as stupidly forgot to write it down. He did give me an idea of price but with the winter only mileage I plan to do thought it was too much to recoup, which was fair, he also didn't charge me for the investigation work. So what to do next? Do I just leave it on the car and not use it, do I strip it down in the summer when I'm not using it and see exactly what's under the manifold and possibly find a fix or do I junk the whole system off the car if I can manage to some how use the existing gas up?
With regards to normal fuel it runs really nicely, I'm running it on Tesco Momentum and if I am careful on a run the average mpg indicated is about 26 and around town I get 16 but we all know this is very ambiguous figure but it's less than my old dse but not too much.
Let me have your thoughts or suggestions it might throw up something I have not considered.
So last week I took it to a local specialist in lpg for assessment and repair. His assessment showed it is running rich and worse on one bank of cylinders than the other. This highlighted worn injectors but it now turns out the system is obsolete plus the injectors are fitted under the inlet manifold so they are impossible to get to without taking the manifold off. He did say what the make was but I can't remember as stupidly forgot to write it down. He did give me an idea of price but with the winter only mileage I plan to do thought it was too much to recoup, which was fair, he also didn't charge me for the investigation work. So what to do next? Do I just leave it on the car and not use it, do I strip it down in the summer when I'm not using it and see exactly what's under the manifold and possibly find a fix or do I junk the whole system off the car if I can manage to some how use the existing gas up?
With regards to normal fuel it runs really nicely, I'm running it on Tesco Momentum and if I am careful on a run the average mpg indicated is about 26 and around town I get 16 but we all know this is very ambiguous figure but it's less than my old dse but not too much.
Let me have your thoughts or suggestions it might throw up something I have not considered.
