Date:         Tue, 14 Mar 2000 03:56:58 -0500
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@IBM.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@IBM.NET>
Subject:      Re: wanted: propane pressure regulator
Comments: To: Jason Willenbrock <pooncerelli@HOTMAIL.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <20000313235020.77277.qmail@hotmail.com>
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Most any RV dealer and probably most any big LP outfit.  Marshall Brass
model 290 (replaces the 260 which came on the Westies -- no longer made)
with excess-flow POL fitting.  Comes in two variations based on how the
low-pressure stage relief vent is oriented, neither is ideal.  This
regulator is a couple inches longer than the original, you need to put a
sort of cobra-head bend into the hookup lines going up into the body. Under
$30 with weather caps.  Note: the POL fitting is the round-nosed left-hand
thread fitting that screws into the delivery valve on the tank.  Looks like
a gas grill BBQ tank fitting (because it is one, except for the excess-flow
feature -- unless you have a brandy-new grill with the Acme fitting that is
a miniature of the one that hooks to the Westy fill valve).

Variations: a) use your original POL fitting, saves a couple bucks.  b)
find any other *two-stage* LP regulator approved for RV use with output
pressure of 11 inches W.C. (water column) and excess-flow POL fitting.

No-nos: a) Single stage regulator such as for gas grill.  Illegal and won't
work as well under varying conditions.  b) Plain POL fitting.  Illegal as
hell, otherwise no difference until you prang the bus and the regulator
comes off and abruptly dumps ten pounds of propane into the accident
scene.  Then if you survive you got big liability problems (the
"excess-flow" fitting senses the sudden flow and shuts off internally).

david

At 06:50 PM 3/13/2000 , Jason Willenbrock wrote:
>anybody know where i could get one for my 82 westy?
>thanks
>jason
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David Beierl - Providence, RI
  http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
'84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
'85 GL "Poor Relation"