Ok, I am not sure what you might call this thread, an update to previous thread on propane conversion or whatever.
here are Do's and Don'ts.
In santiago, the king of LPG (propane kit) conversion is:
Acosta auto gas. the are well equipped and have all mechanics, installers and electricians working in one place. they will modify and weld metals to propane tanks and install them well bolted to your car. they carry everything so there is no need to wait for parts or have to go else where to fine tune the car etc. they will do it all in one place and they are cheaper. I wish I had gone there in the first place.
They are located near the rotonda (round-about) of 27 de febrero when entering santiago from navarete road. They are in the street right behind auto dealership of ochoa. Tel: 809 295 7055
Now here is what you don't want to do.
Do not simply drive the car on propane. the system is designed to turn on the car in gasoline and then after you drive the car and when the engine RPM reaches 2000 RPM the system shifts to propane gas and turns off gasoline fuel. This is important that you do this. Some people (including myself), simply start the car, press the gas peddle so the engine increases the rpm to 2K and shifts to propane. We thought this will save the expensive fuel and we don't have to fill gasoline for months. wrong!
So happened my car would start on gasoline but it will run rough and often shake the engine. The next day, car won't start at all on gasoline. I went to mechanic and he told me i needed a switch installed so it would bypass the chip; this is because the data on computerized chip is erased so that why my car is not starting on gasoline. make the long story short, it seemed like a long complicated process and it was going to cost me money, pus I was not convinced of the diagnosis.
So what do I do? I go to public forums to see what the tigres are saying about it.
It quickly became clear to me that the problem was simple. I was the problem. I was running the car on propane for so long that the little tiny level of fuel I had left in my tank was drying up, solidifying and thus, clogging up my fuel injectors. The problem was so sudden I even thought my fuel pump was acting up. I mean the car would run one day on gasoline and the next day, it would not even start.
So I filled up tank quarter of the capacity, emptied a bottle of fuel injector cleaner and left the car parked for the night. The next morning I tried to start up the car on gasoline. It didn't at first but I kept trying. Then it would start but only on 2 cylinders. Shakes and then die. After a few more attempts, the car finally started and I gave some gasoline to run the engine up. Then, finally, it started to run good. I think the clog opened up and today I will run the car on gasoline only to clean up the fuel injectors.
lesson learned, from now on, i will run my car on gasoline for some distance until it will switch to propane all by itself, like it was supposed to do in the first place.
AZB
here are Do's and Don'ts.
In santiago, the king of LPG (propane kit) conversion is:
Acosta auto gas. the are well equipped and have all mechanics, installers and electricians working in one place. they will modify and weld metals to propane tanks and install them well bolted to your car. they carry everything so there is no need to wait for parts or have to go else where to fine tune the car etc. they will do it all in one place and they are cheaper. I wish I had gone there in the first place.
They are located near the rotonda (round-about) of 27 de febrero when entering santiago from navarete road. They are in the street right behind auto dealership of ochoa. Tel: 809 295 7055
Now here is what you don't want to do.
Do not simply drive the car on propane. the system is designed to turn on the car in gasoline and then after you drive the car and when the engine RPM reaches 2000 RPM the system shifts to propane gas and turns off gasoline fuel. This is important that you do this. Some people (including myself), simply start the car, press the gas peddle so the engine increases the rpm to 2K and shifts to propane. We thought this will save the expensive fuel and we don't have to fill gasoline for months. wrong!
So happened my car would start on gasoline but it will run rough and often shake the engine. The next day, car won't start at all on gasoline. I went to mechanic and he told me i needed a switch installed so it would bypass the chip; this is because the data on computerized chip is erased so that why my car is not starting on gasoline. make the long story short, it seemed like a long complicated process and it was going to cost me money, pus I was not convinced of the diagnosis.
So what do I do? I go to public forums to see what the tigres are saying about it.
It quickly became clear to me that the problem was simple. I was the problem. I was running the car on propane for so long that the little tiny level of fuel I had left in my tank was drying up, solidifying and thus, clogging up my fuel injectors. The problem was so sudden I even thought my fuel pump was acting up. I mean the car would run one day on gasoline and the next day, it would not even start.
So I filled up tank quarter of the capacity, emptied a bottle of fuel injector cleaner and left the car parked for the night. The next morning I tried to start up the car on gasoline. It didn't at first but I kept trying. Then it would start but only on 2 cylinders. Shakes and then die. After a few more attempts, the car finally started and I gave some gasoline to run the engine up. Then, finally, it started to run good. I think the clog opened up and today I will run the car on gasoline only to clean up the fuel injectors.
lesson learned, from now on, i will run my car on gasoline for some distance until it will switch to propane all by itself, like it was supposed to do in the first place.
AZB