My 1981 Westy was US 3/8 inch copper with US fittings.

Sean Garrett
81 Westy (his)
95 EVC (hers)
87 Syncro (Subie project)
82 Parts Vanagon (need a part ?)
Central Arizona

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
> Of Tim Demarest
> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 2:15 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Un-Sealing propane tank fittings...
> 
> 
>          ummm... that would be insulting my lack of knowledge, not my
> intelligence... and you don't seem awfully sure yourself. ;-)
> 
>          Anyone with direct experience who can tell me if these are
> left-hand thread? these are the copper-line fittings right at 
> the propane
> tank, on an '85 Westy.
> 
>          If it does turn out that I can't get this off 
> without copper-line
> butchery, can anyone tell me if I can replace these with 
> good-old US spec
> copper, or do I need to get some $pecial euro-$pecific copper line and
> fittings?
> 
> 
> At 03:58 PM 11/19/2003 -0500, David Brodbeck wrote:
> >On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Tim Demarest wrote:
> >
> > > Has anyone got suggestions for getting stuck propane 
> fitting loose?
> >
> >Not to insult your intelligence, but you *do* know propane 
> fittings are
> >left-hand thread, right?  I know some people who have gotten 
> screwed up by
> >this. :)  (At least, the ones on the old-style pre-OPD 
> bottles are.  I'm
> >not totally sure about fittings in permanent installations.)
> >
> >
> >David Brodbeck, N8SRE
> >'82 Diesel Westfalia
> >'94 Honda Civic Si -- For Sale
> >'86 Volvo 240DL wagon
>