At 08:35 AM 1999-02-27 -0800, Mark McCulley wrote: >You must be talking about the auto-stop valve, not the fill valve. The >fill valve on these tanks is a standard part and can be easily obtained >at any propane supply shop. I think I paid less than $30 for a new one >last summer. The auto-stop valve is indeed no longer manufactured but is >rebuildable with a kit available from Euro-American RV (formerly Delta >6), the original supplier of many Westy parts. While the auto-stop valve was clearly leaking, there were rings in the set that could have only been for the fill valve, so my guess is that they actually worked on both. I figured that for $100 they must have done something. Heh. |
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