LP Tank for Gas

[hagan]

A really good chance the 400 i am trying to get to running is not going to work without lots of LP Carbuetor work. Tin and fuel tank is hard to find unless i drive a couple hundred miles. I am thinking of putting a fill bung on the top of the tank and a sedimate bult and fuel valve on the bottom and a gasoline carbuetor. I am not afraid to remove valves from tank and let air out for a few days and welding in a fill bung. Will this work? Has anyone ever tried this. Am i crazy for attempting this? Thank You

[bitty]

39 minutes ago, hagan said:

A really good chance the 400 i am trying to get to running is not going to work without lots of LP Carbuetor work. Tin and fuel tank is hard to find unless i drive a couple hundred miles. I am thinking of putting a fill bung on the top of the tank and a sedimate bult and fuel valve on the bottom and a gasoline carbuetor. I am not afraid to remove valves from tank and let air out for a few days and welding in a fill bung. Will this work? Has anyone ever tried this. Am i crazy for attempting this? Thank You

I think it's a tank of CO2 that you should get to purge the LP tank out ? It has potential to work. If you were nearby I could trade you what you need. I'm trying to get a LP 450 back to LP. Whatever you do be careful. I have already took all the valves out and filled it 100% full of water to flush it out 

[acem]

I'd trade the LP tank for a regular gas tank with Bitty.

I've worked with LP alot.  The tanks get a coating of gummy stuff at the bottom.  It's hard to get out. 

LP is delivered and filled with liquid.  Then it's used as a vapor.  There is some stuff that don't evaporate into gas.  It tends to be tar like stuff and ends up at the bottom of the tank.

It would be better to pay the freight than fight all that crap in the bottom of the tank.

IMHO YMMV

[mikem]

1 hour ago, acem said:

There is some stuff that don't evaporate into gas.  It tends to be tar like stuff and ends up at the bottom of the tank.

Thats the stuff that makes LP smell like LP.

Get some of that on you and you will look dirty, and SMELL worse for a week. (It also draws flies from miles around).

It won't wash off, almost has to be sanded.

If you don't want LP, then switch with a factory tank, and skip the hassle of changing the LP one over.

Mike

[bitty]

1 hour ago, mikem said:

Thats the stuff that makes LP smell like LP.

Get some of that on you and you will look dirty, and SMELL worse for a week. (It also draws flies from miles around).

2 hours ago, acem said:

I'd trade the LP tank for a regular gas tank with Bitty.

I've worked with LP alot.  The tanks get a coating of gummy stuff at the bottom.  It's hard to get out. 

LP is delivered and filled with liquid.  Then it's used as a vapor.  There is some stuff that don't evaporate into gas.  It tends to be tar like stuff and ends up at the bottom of the tank.

It would be better to pay the freight than fight all that crap in the bottom of the tank.

IMHO YMMV

It won't wash off, almost has to be sanded.

If you don't want LP, then switch with a factory tank, and skip the hassle of changing the LP one over.

Mike

The stinky part is Ethel Mercapum (sp) 

 

My location combined with Hagan's make it fairly impractical to swap parts . If he was a few hours away it would be much different 

[acem]

2 hours ago, bitty said:

The stinky part is Ethel Mercapum (sp) 

 

My location combined with Hagan's make it fairly impractical to swap parts . If he was a few hours away it would be much different 

UPS???

[bitty]

1 hour ago, acem said:

UPS???

Big enough it would have to be ground freight. Be a job to package the hoods er. It would be all dented from the guys in our area 

[Matt Kirsch]

Honestly I'd be in the truck, tank full of gas, headed out for parts unknown...