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Liquefied Petroleum Gas powered engine. Also referred to propane or butane.

LPG or Liquefied Petroleum Gas is also referred to propane or butane and is used as an alternative fuel in some vehicles. Vehicles from small passenger to heavy trucks can use this fuel and conversion kits are available for many gasoline engines.

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What kind of spark plug should I choose for LPG conversion?

I recently had an LPG system installed in my Golf MK4 and now the car has some hesitation when accelerating. The mechanic who installed the LPG System told me that I need to change my current (cheap, but brand new) spark plugs for some new ones…
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OMVL LPG gas injector lifetime

My vehicle has LPG as alternative fuel. It have OMVL REG injectors without temp sensors. It has already ~ 60000 km (In picture you can see, that one injector not used; 3 from left). Check engine light start coming on, and i cannot anymore adjust…
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can an autogas/lpg system damage the 6.2l v8 corvette engine?

for example, we have recently bought a 2008 chevrolet corvette from the turkish customs, and we converted our corvette to autogas / liquefied petroleum gas in a turkish conversion shop, with liquefied petroleum gas conversion kit supplied by italian…
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Diesel engine on LPG

I have seen LPG powered petrol cars which can run on both the fuels. But I have not seen any Diesel engine car running on LPG. Is it possible to run a diesel engine on LPG?
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Does an oxygen sensor's lambda value represent the same when running on LPG?

I have converted my car to LPG, and i've been tuning it today with a wideband lambda controller. It runs pretty okay, but i'm not yet satisfied. The weird thing is, it accelerated best when the lambda value was tuned to about 0.78. That figure seems…
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Broken spark plug: safe piston?

I have a broken Spark plug in a 2SZFE engine. Oil level is not changing. Does it means the piston is safe? There’s a spark plug part in the first cylinder because previous owner chose a low cost model not adapted to higher temperature of lpg.…
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Adjusting LPG system KME diego G3

I have a Volvo with B5254T (2.5L low pressure turbo, 193hp) engine. It is equipped with KME diego G3 LPG system. I have problem to adjust it to work properly. Here is modeling tab. . From manual (page 28-29): Mult – parameter enables to change Tg…
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Peugeot 207 2009, issues with LPG

My 207, since about a year, is having some troubles 'passing' to LPG. It starts regularly on petrol then, as soon as the ECU switches to LPG, if I'm not pushing on the gas, it shuts down. My work-around is to 'manually' go on petrol mode and switch…
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Hum from Opel Corsa GplTech when throttling

I've got a 2010 Opel corsa d 1.2 GplTech, now with about 84000 km. The car seems fine, does not consume excessively and even the mechanic said this January that it feels solid. However, when I'm on LPG and go on partial throttle I hear a low-pitch…
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Cold start on LPG, vaporizer freezing issues

I read a lot about LPG vaporizer freezing over on cold starts and the need to start on petrol until the engine has warmed up a bit. I've read that some electronic LPG systems on newer cars will only allow 20 starts on LPG before the system is locked…
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Can LPG be used as fuel for cars?

I have a petrol engine car but I want to know that can I use LPG as a fuel for my petrol engine. I know I have to do customization for it but can I use LPG in a normal Petrol engine or does it affect my car engine if I use LPG fuel is it a good idea…
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Car not running properly on LPG when car has been idling for some time

I have a Renault Clio 1.4 16v 72kw from 2003. I have this strange problem where when the car has been idling for some time (when in traffic for example) and gets more warm (temperature indicator more than half way. This means it's > 90 C right?) it…
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Air Conditionning cools very low, I mean nearly not at all

There’s 4 airflow speed on the car switch. They aren’t affected by whether Air conditioning is enabled or not. However, even by setting air temperature to the lowest, there’s almost no difference between the case Air conditioning is enabled or it’s…
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Volvo XC60 T6 Petrol+LPG rough idle

I have a problem with 2012 XC60 T6+LPG. Engine is idling roughly, especially when cold. Coil packs are Ok. There is no noticeable vacuum leak in the intake. I can't safely rule out fuel supply problems. When the engine is warm, the ECU appears to…
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2001 Volvo V40 2.0T producing excess smoke with other issues

Firstly, I pulled these error codes from the ECU: 0139,0131,0172,0107 My V40 2.0T with aftermarket LPG conversion is putting out a significant amount of smoke at quite specific moments. Before this started happening, I had slight hesitancy from the…
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