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Are V8 Land Rover Discovery's any good ?
Discopoo:
--- Quote from: Disco Matt on September 17, 2008, 09:48:50 ---Doesn't someone do an LPG kit now that avoids filling the boot with gas tank or making it unusable off road by strapping them to the sills? I'm pretty sure I've seen one which replaces the petrol tank with a smaller one and fills the remaining space with a well-armoured LPG tank. Petrol range drops to around 100 miles but even here in Wales that'll get you to a garage with LPG!
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My brother has a RRC with under sill tanks and has no problem except sometimes his footwells are a little higher at times if the lumps are big ?
jonny ramrod:
i run undersill tanks and have had no problems at all..they are tucked well up out of the way.
Disco Matt:
Fair enough - I just remembered some debate about that in the magazines when LPG conversions first became popular.
Range Rover Blues:
If you fit sill tanks they will hand below the chassis (or hold nothing at all) but a decent set of steps or rock sliders will hang almost as low to protect them, plus the tanks are so tough you won't actually be damaging anything but the piant on them (and the brakcets if a bit weak) when you ground out.
The fuel tank replacement is a good idea, you'll get 2x36 ltanks in there, but then you have to have an 8 gal tank in the rear RH corner, unprotected in the event of a collision 8-[
jonny ramrod:
i think on a disco you can get them a bit higher up out of the way than a R/R. I got pretty caught up on some sharp rocks last weekend, but the sliders took the brunt of it and the tanks never got touched. And i think they are something like 4 times thicker than a petrol tank because they are under pressure, so you would have to be going some to burst one... :shock:
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