At 02:41 PM 5/23/2001, Gerald Masar wrote:
>(first time ever) over the regulator (?) and noticed a little oil dripping
>from underneath it. Could this be where the smell is coming from?

Yes, you have a leaking regulator.  It's a Marshal Brass model 260 which is
no longer made.  You  may be able to get one from Northwest Butane
1-800-247-6121 (somebody did just recently) or some other source, otherwise
use a Marshall Brass model 290, about $25 with weather covers and
excess-flow-preventing POL fitting, available from RV dealers and LP
houses.  The new one is a couple inches longer and you'll have to carefully
bend the copper lines going into the van to make it fit.

david

David Beierl - Providence, RI
  http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
'84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
'85 GL "Poor Relation"