Westfalia gas bottle wont fill. Help!

Post by **MacWilliam** » 26 Oct 2005, 23:08

Does any one have any idea why i cant fill the cigar shaped lpg bottle under my california westy. I got an adapter from steve at gassure, went to the station and tried. Nothing wants to go in. I removed the bit with the inlet non return spring loaded valve and i blew the gaz right through. No bother. Refitted, and no

, still cant fill the wretched thing.

Post by **MacWilliam** » 05 Nov 2005, 19:50

Anyone??? Iam getting hungry

Post by **RichardU8** » 06 Nov 2005, 16:21

I have a 1987 Westy 'Vanagon' - built for USA. On the feed to the 12 litre leisure LPG tank, slung torpedo style under the van, there is an 'auto stop' valve (made by a firm called AutoStop Corporation of Lynwood, California - previous owner gave me the original maker's leaflet, and said he never used leisure gas !)

I find this 'auto stop' valve is a temperamental sod, with a complicated set of instructions and a fiddly manual 'outage' relief valve on the side that you have to use before and after fillng from the pump.

Have only once got a half decent fill (of the 12 litre tank for gas hob & fridge), usual it goes in so slowly that I've only pushed in 1 litre after 10 mins leaning on the pum button !

Has anyone out there worked out how to get these b*****rs to co-operate?