![]() This little bottle was installed in the middle of the night when I ran out of fuel in the big bottle. Valve is laying on side, so when bottle is full I have liquid, when it gets below half I've got vapor. I just throw it up where the large bottle bracket is and lash it down. ![]() I have a fitting on my old Yale to fit a small bottle, like you would use on a barbeque grill. But the tank is dark green and the sun helps to produce enough vapor. Sink that plow in deep and you will need to turn off the vapor and turn on the liquid.īuddy of mine, Ron, has a 60 John Deere which he runs off vapor exclusively. Vapor valve only can be turned on for low HP usage. I've seen several tractors which had both a liquid and a vapor line going to the vaporizer regulator. Some low demand motors can be ran off the vapor side. Liquid propane is fed to the vaporizor regulator and made into vapor and delivered to the mixer at a regulated pressure. DOT tanks for a pickup for instance have both these lines. There are 2 lines off some propane tanks, liquid and vapor. Propane made it to the intake of the diesel, Brrroooom and kaboom.Ī bad seal in a supercharger is also bad, Detroit diesels were known to do this. I played truck mechanic for a propane transport company, year after I left they lost a motor to a broken hose. There has been plenty of diesels blown up because of propane spillage. They burn fuel oil when gas consumption in town goes up in the winter. I don't know how the fuel injection works. Down the road at Carthage they have Norburg diesels running on Natural gas. Propane burns fine in a diesel, problem is putting the right amount in at the right time. I run my old Yale with it's 4cyl Continental on vapor, but I putt putt about. You will need to run this motor on liquid, quite a bit of displacement. 40lb forklift bottles have 2 working positions, upright and laying on their sides with up, up. You do have to keep it oriented to get the liquid out right. The tank doesn't know where it's mounted. ![]() You can run a bit more advance with propane, octane on propane is about 100 or so. Electronic conversions are made for most distributors, heard the farmers talking about using them in their tractors.īut points work just fine. If you were really crafty an HEI system could be cooked up for this engine by swapping about and adapting Delco parts. I'm talking about the regular 7 or so gallon tank like everyone's seen on lifts so commonly.Īny other suggestions or hangups to look out for are welcome!Įngines were running on propane long before electronic ignition systems were made. Being that I've always seen them set up that way, I figured I'd ask if there was really anything to that claim. Can the tank be mounted in most any position? I thought it could, but it's been suggested as well that I'd need to have it higher than the carburetor, etc to work best. Before I got this lift, I'd never heard of a 305 V6, only the 305 V8! Don't get me wrong, I'd be glad to have HEI or something, but is it really necessary to go to electronic iginition? Note: Although it is a GMC, this engine is not easy to obtain goodies for-hence the previous post about swapping to a 350 Chevy or something. It's been suggested to me that going to LPG for fuel will be much more painless if I ditch my point-type ignition on this engine. Here's a question for some of my more motor-headed machinist colleagues. Oh boy, the wives' tales, etc have all reared their Hydra-like heads. I've decided to keep the old 305 V6 GMC engine that's now in the Hyster forklift, and LPG fuel is next in my crystal ball. Thanks for the replies earlier on my previous forklift engine topic.
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