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Hi everyone well here it is i have a recon 19 dg on lpg it's nearly 2 years old now but i have never really been happy with it but it did the job the thing is now it looses power on hill's and not just big hill's n yes i no they all do but when a car towing a caravan pass's you then that's not right and where of down to cornwall soon and i am not looking forward to the hill's there just wondered if anyone has had this and found a solution oh and it's the same on petrol. :(

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hhmm both fuels.im no expert tony.but it sounds like a carb problem..
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Air leak Tony?

weak mixture would cause a loss
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Thank's guy's it's ok on pickup you put your foot down and it goe's like it should it's just when your flat out and hit a bit of an incline it die's very quick, mixture is fine set it up yesterday with my gunson gas analizer, like i said i have never really been that happy with this engine as the saying goe's ya get's what you pay for.



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Not a DF in diguise is it :D
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Had this problem and I checked timing, distributer advance, ignition, compression, all the usual suspects and found accelerator linkage not giving full throttle and a binding caliper piston......economy went pear shaped too!
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