Outer Limits 4x4 Board

Hi guys,

I have had the gas for nearly 12 months on the rangie but all of a sudden
she is running like a dog on LPG, it misses and hesitates and backfires badly to the point of being un-driveable. This only starts to occur when the car heats up to operating temp before that it is ordinary but drivable.

So far I have

Replaced Points - Reset timing and points gap
Replaced Condensor
Checked the plugs (look ok only relaced 1 or 2 months ago)
Replaced Coil

All to no avail, any ideas guys, going to put a new set of plugs into her to see what happens next

Thanks guys
Tom

Make sure you have enough antifreeze running through the system. If you don't, the gas converter can freeze and not give you any gas.

why would that be more of a problem when the engine heats up?

maybe it's getting too hot ??

That was a problem with mine, its not that the engine has heated up, its that its been running long enough for the gas to freeze the converter. It wont happen straight away.

Its pretty obvious if this is the problem.

ahhhh the converter

Thanks for the lead, I will give it a try, any other suggestion

TIA

Tom

Try putting a lowr temp thermostat in and check your converter and mixer for wear. Depending on what type of system you have there maybe a split in the mixer diaphram or you could just have an airlock in the coolant lines.

Thanks guys for the suggestions just FYI it ended up being the plugs, even though I only replaced them a few months ago the were shagged out. A new set did the trick

Thanks for the info

Tom

Some LPG guy told me that rover engines that run LPG should have the STd plugs regapped or use platnum plugs

Yeah mick I am in the process of finding out what the go is with that,

A mate told me to get them re-gapped and use 1 grade colder temperature as the LPG will strip out the standard ones pretty quickly

(around 7000K I think IIRC)

I will post what I find out

Tom