I don't have close access to my Westy to see if we have the Marshall 209
you speak of, but the replacement for a failed Westy regulator is a
dime-a-dozen regulator that requires slight bending of the Westy's
copper tubes. We replaced ours for $20.

From snowy DC,
G. Matthew Bulley

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-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
Of Steve Delanty
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 6:11 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: westy propane regulator

Greetings all,

My sweetie and I just bought a 1986 Vanagon GL Westfalia last thursday.
We took it for a nice 3 day weekend camping trip to the redwoods and had
a great time!

While we were in the campsite Laura said she could smell a faint stink
of
propane.
At first I just figured it was just the beer and chili I had for lunch,
but
later I got a whiff
too and decided it really was propane and not me...

It didn't take long to trace the smell to the propane regulator, which
was
leaking
a small amount from the vent hole. Rats....

So, today I've done a small bit of web searching and the only
replacement
regulator
I find is from the Bus Boys for $100. Accck!

I hunted some RV websites and found a Marshall 290 2-stage regulator
that looks
functionally equivalent, but the dimensions on it are quite a bit larger
than the origional
regulator. It's also 1/5 the price.

Sooo.... the question is, what do you folks do for replacement
regulators?
Spend the $100 for an original style one?
Get a generic 2-stage for $20 and make it fit? (modify the hard lines
and
the regulator cover)
Or...???

Thanks much for any good advise you can steer my way...
We'd like to take it out on the road again this weekend, and it sure
would
be nice if
the fridge worked! (-:

Cheers,
  Steve D.