Gas conversions

G'day kdarvel,

I recently purchased an Aug '99 GU Patrol Ti (at 88K Km) which is 4.5L petrol - and a bit of a guzzler. I did some sums on converting it to dual fuel LPG/petrol and the numbers looked good. It cost $3,300 to convert including a 92L usable LPG tank and replaced the sub tank (35L) with a 75L tank for petrol to give me good range where LPG might be scarce.

My sums suggested that fuel cost savings would give me a payback on the $3,300 in 28K Km of normal driving or about 17K Km pulling a 2T van. After that it's money in the bank.

I had my local Nissan dealer do the job, including a 3 year warranty and all tanks are underneath - and you switch from one to the other with the push of a button.

I can find no difference in performance under LPG or petrol with unladen usage at approx. 4Km/L for LPG and 6Km/L for petrol.

I note that JustCruisin did his Big One with a 20+Ft van in tow with same vehicle June-October covering 18,000+Km (Adelaide-Darwin-Broome-Perth-Port Augusta-Adelaide) and only a couple of times had to rely on petrol. See justcruisin.bigpondhosting.com

I hope this is of interest and value to you.

Merry Christmas

LPGPete