Date:         Thu, 14 Aug 2003 18:20:50 -0700
Reply-To:     "Mike D." <md03@XOCHI.COM>
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From:         "Mike D." <md03@XOCHI.COM>
Subject:      Re: LPG Regulator Leaking?
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>>But it is way to big (about 4" longer than my existing regulator).
>>Even if I could re-use the old T connector, I'd have to bend the feed
>>lines that go to the fridge and stove about 4".  And even then, it
>>wouldn't fit in the existing metal shield.
>
>Yep, it's a Marshall 290, and it's pretty much all that's available
>anymore....
>
>If you are careful, you CAN bend the lines and make it fit.
>BTDT, mine was leaking when I got the van...

If I re-use the T and bend the feed lines (about 4") it looks like it
would fit (just barely, and that's an awful big bend!)...but the
regulator itself would still run into the metal shield (not the big
one, the smaller one that just surrounds the regulator):

Excuse my crappy ascii art

    | | <-supply lines to fridge and stove
    | |
|  | |    -----------------------
|  | |    |           |        |
|  |-T -- |<-old reg->|---(+)  | <-main supply valve
|         -------------        | <-smaller shield
|                              |
|-------------------------------  <-big shield

   <-new regulator size->