Overheating LPG V8's

My father and my self both own V8, Disco's. I have noticed that both are
prone to over heating when running on Petrol, but are fine on the gas. Has
anyone else seen this problem? Is this normal ? Would fitting some Kenlow
fans cure the problem?

Cheers,

Jim <[email protected]> uttered summat worrerz funny about:
> My father and my self both own V8, Disco's. I have noticed that both
> are prone to over heating when running on Petrol, but are fine on the
> gas. Has anyone else seen this problem? Is this normal ? Would
> fitting some Kenlow fans cure the problem?
>
> Cheers,

What age are your discos? I.e. are they running on carbs or an SGI system?

You can get wiggets for the carbs set ups which alter the timing as required
to run correctly on petrol / gas as both are different. I think RPi used to
sell them and may still do.

We have a Bigas Sgi system on our Disco and theres no difference Petrol or
Gas and thats towing a rather big caravan with Kids, dogs and the usualy
holiday clutter up hill and down dale. If I run out of LPG on a holiday run
I've now begun to factor it in as a part of the holiday cost as as soon as I
stop looking for a refil point I usually come across one by accident.

Lee D

Jim wrote:
> My father and my self both own V8, Disco's. I have noticed that both are
> prone to over heating when running on Petrol, but are fine on the gas. Has
> anyone else seen this problem? Is this normal ? Would fitting some Kenlow
> fans cure the problem?

Assuming that the ignition timing is set correctly for LPG and that you
don't have a magic box to retard the timing when on petrol this is to be
expected. It's not a particularly good idea to run an engine
over-advanced so it's well worth looking into a way to solve this problem.

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