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posted this in general... but you guys know how many serious answers you get there

so what are the gas bottles on the back for? and painted black.... isn't that a little ... errr.... hot in the sun?

my guess is they are air tanks or something weird... gas bottles mounted on poles

was on the sunshine coast btw.

Taff wrote:

posted this in general... but you guys know how many serious answers you get there

so what are the gas bottles on the back for? and painted black.... isn't that a little ... errr.... hot in the sun?

my guess is they are air tanks or something weird... gas bottles mounted on poles

was on the sunshine coast btw.

G`day -- TheGatta from General
I dont know why they are there, but if he has a stack they are going to land in the front seat pretty quickly

air tanks for blowing up the tyres Paint em black, air gets hotter, more pressure

I guess the gas bottles are on like that cause there is too much shit on the roof already

you can lead a paj to kawana but you can't make em think

I dont know about the black paint, but you cannot legally carry a 9kg gas bottle inside a vehicle cabin. Thats the reason you now get 8.5kg when you do your service station bottle swap. I once did this to carry a 4.5kg bottle on an extended trip, mounted a bottle holder on top of a jerry can holder on the rear bumper. The reason was to save limited space inside the vehicle.

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BundyRumandCoke wrote:I dont know about the black paint, but you cannot legally carry a 9kg gas bottle inside a vehicle cabin. Thats the reason you now get 8.5kg when you do your service station bottle swap. I once did this to carry a 4.5kg bottle on an extended trip, mounted a bottle holder on top of a jerry can holder on the rear bumper. The reason was to save limited space inside the vehicle.

They are still 9kg sized bottles aren't they?
I thought they are just filled with 8.5kg of LPG now instead of 9kg.. as to increase profits. I havn't heard any laws about carrying LPG cylinders.

And F70 - Go back to Chemistry

Jerry can is also illegal if it has fuel in it.

Have seen a 75 troopy camper with a gas bottle permanently mounted to the narrow rear door - had a rubber hose running through the door to the gas cooker in the back!!!

they are meant to put a little plastic plug in the bottles when they fill them .

HotFourOk wrote:

BundyRumandCoke wrote:I dont know about the black paint, but you cannot legally carry a 9kg gas bottle inside a vehicle cabin. Thats the reason you now get 8.5kg when you do your service station bottle swap. I once did this to carry a 4.5kg bottle on an extended trip, mounted a bottle holder on top of a jerry can holder on the rear bumper. The reason was to save limited space inside the vehicle.

They are still 9kg sized bottles aren't they?
I thought they are just filled with 8.5kg of LPG now instead of 9kg.. as to increase profits. I havn't heard any laws about carrying LPG cylinders.

And F70 - Go back to Chemistry

Correct they are still 9kgs and you are only supposed to carry 2 at a time. Also you are supposed to be going staight to shop with cyl and straight home, dont ask me how they prove that in the case of accy. New rules have been bought in last year about transport lpg on a domestic level, due to a couple of accys with cylinders in cars.

looks like 2 insane spud guns

I'v seen old bottles converted to small wood burning cookers they were painted black with a door cut in the side to stoke the fire, I think I saw them at MUD BULLS & MUSIC for sale. (maybe thats what they are!)

Hey RockyF70, if you pump hot air into the tyre then when the air cools the pressure drops. So there is no real point in heating it.