The Propane has a two position knob.
All the way off and all the way on.
It has a seat on each end and the hissing sound is it leaking in the mid
range of reaching the full open or full closed.
If you doubt my words ............. take the valve apart, you'll see.
In other words the hissing and slight leak is normal while going from
full open to full closed.
If you leave the valve half way you'll leak the propane out.

Stan Wilder

On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 11:50:37 -0700 Gordy Jones <westyutah@YAHOO.COM>
writes:
> So I guess I don't have much experience with propane. When you turn
> the knob underneath the van, should there be a slight hissing or
> not? the smell of the propane is pretty apparent when I loosen the
> knob. I had originally thought that i had a leak but when i went to
> fill up the tank, the guy said that it was completely full and that
> he could not fit any more in there at all. The stove does seem to
> work now but my only concern is the smell and the slight hissing
> noise when loosening the valve...
>
>
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> ~83 Green Air-Cooled Westy
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