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Date:         Fri, 18 Oct 2002 15:24:45 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: more propane questions
Comments: To: Gordy Jones <westyutah@YAHOO.COM>
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At 02:50 PM 10/18/2002, Gordy Jones wrote:
>So I guess I don't have much experience with propane. When you turn the
>knob underneath the van, should there be a slight hissing or not?


Not.


>  the smell of the propane is pretty apparent when I loosen the knob.


Hint: it's a leak.


>  I had originally thought that i had a leak but when i went to fill up
> the tank, the guy said that it was completely full and that he could not
> fit any more in there at all.


It doesn't take much of a leak (fortunately) to make a stink.  Use a
soap-bubble mixture to find it and replace (or possibly adjust, if it's
valve-stem packing?) the indicated part.


david




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