Dual Fuel

[bigmack]

How many of you 4WD owners have duel fuel and how do you go with the autogas? At close to one third of the price of petrol, surely it must be a big advantage.

Comments or experiences please.

Thankyou

[warrior]

i had a 60 sreies landcruiser on it and the difference in power was about 10% under load a bit more so i would change back to petrol,tured aussie for 13 months on it and the prices were great compared to petrol.changing my prado over in c couple of weeks,worked out that i would pay for the conversion in six months when the fuel was 99cents a litre.hope that helped a bit cheers allan

[2iar]

Hi Bigmack,

I've got a 100 series. I get around 3/4 the mileage on LPG that I would on petrol, so well ahead in the pocket. Hit Moreton Island for 5 days last month, $19 fuel bill door to door.

No noticeable difference in power. I've only got a little boat, but have had quite heavy loads in the back and on the rack.

Good luck,
Mike

[bigmack]

thanks guys - I am surprised that there are not more of you out there.

[Needmorerum]

Don't have it myself, run a diseasel, but the experience that I have had with it with high horsepower race boats I can only offer one suggestion.
Just make sure that you don't need to go anywhere that doesn't have it. You can't carry a jerry as a top up. With the boats, we could install fittings so that you could plug in a gas bottle and decant it, but this is a different story with vehicles.

Corry

[caloundra]

they had a segment on sunrise yesterday and the bloke said on a commodore that does 15k a year it would pay itself off in around 16 months
I'm thinking of getting the my pajero converted

Daniel

[Angla]

I had a mitsubishi l300 on it for nearly 10 years wehn gas got to nearly the same price as unleaded. I felt that you lost a little in power but got a smoother acceleration. There are some concerns as to lubrication but if you switch to petrol once a week that seems to fix that.Vehicle was only off the road 3 days in 10 years when the timing belt went before its time. Servicing the gas and petrol carbies seemed to cost $500.00 each at the same time, a cost to keep in mind and after 10 years you have to have the tank pressure tested or changed. a 100 litre tank can only be filled 80% so I opted for the 123 litre tank for less filling times. When on a long trip it would do 1000 Km on gas and petrol which made it hard on the bladder if, like me, you only service the bladder when you stop for fuel. [smiley=dizzy.gif]
The prices all make it look good now but wait until the price of gas rises for some *&%&%^ reason
I now run a diesel work van (better economy by far than petrol) and a diesel turbo 4x4 to pull the boat (better economy and power by far than petrol)

Angla