Anyone work on cars with LPG systems fitted?

[Sump]

If you go one minute in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u7-rdJ1BFI

I can see it being a complete pain having to work on the car with those gas lines or whatever they are running across everywhere...

Something like taking the viscous out and changing the waterpump or changing the expansion tank, or taking off the rocker cover, it's gotta be a pain with those lines running across over the top surely? And it doesn't look like the lines give you much leeway either..

Or am I wrong here?

[Sump]

Anyone?

[RJP001]

I don't remember the pipes from the vaporiser to the injectors being completely rigid, although most of my limited experience is around single point systems.

To be honest it wouldn't really put me off a car if it was set up like in the video. How many times do you change the items you mentioned? There's nothing to stop you disconnecting the pipes yourself.

[Dr Interceptor]

That's a nice tidy install - seen them much worse than that!

It's no big deal to disconnect the pipes though, just factor in another 15 mins at either end of the job, plus extra time to restest the system afterwards.

No worse than say when I had the fuel pump done on the Jensen, which required all sorts of things to be removed (alternator being just one) to access it.

[BriC175]

Can't watch the video on this PC, but no, LPG cars are not hard to work on. The fuel supply lines, etc can be moved / removed, and then it's just like working on a regular car

[Sump]

Admittedly Im not changing waterpumps etc every other day, but when things like a leaking hose crop up or this and that, then I can see it being a pain having all this stuff in the way.

[Sump]

WAsn't aware you could remove the lines so easily. Was expecting some big cold burn and a bang!

[Dr Interceptor]

Sump said:

WAsn't aware you could remove the lines so easily. Was expecting some big cold burn and a bang!

No different to working on a home gas system (which of course you should never do unless you're Gas Safe registered).

The tanks should/will have an isolator valve on, so you can shut off the tanks from the rest of the system. Then just be sensible when undoing any pipes, conisder whether or not it will have pressure behind it, what kind of connection it is, whether the pressure can be released safely etc.

Edit to add... the HSE document for working on LPG fitted vehicles http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg387.pdf