Helluva Bang - LPG Coldstarting

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Raggylad
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Helluva Bang - LPG Coldstarting

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Well - started up this morning on LPG after a coldish night. No problem starting, but the truck ran a bit lumpily as it does when starting cold on LPG. Half a mile down the road, after a couple of minor backfires (normal in these circumstances) there was a helluva bang. :shock: If I had been somewhere hot & horrid doing the day job, I would have thought 'IED' and have been out fast a putting rounds downrange !

The truck sounded like a tank and it was pretty obvious that the larger than normal backfire had blown out the front silencer. As Murphy's Law would have it, I'm booked for the MOT tomorrow ! :cry: No choice but to go to Kwik b***y Fit. :x

£86 poorer for a piece of tin that I know won't last long - thankfully, the rest of the exhaust was OK !

Moral - always start on petrol.
1983 110 V8 Station Waggon - LPG converted

There is nothing, absolutely nothing, quite so much fun as messing about in boats
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