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Subject:Re: Need help with my '87 propane charge valve
Date:Fri, 12 Jul 1996 20:05:32 -0600

Thanks, but I'm not the one with the problem, I was helping someone else out.

James

>James,
>
>I had the same problem occur on my 88 Westie.  Check to see if you have
>the AUTO SHUT OFF type valve, I cant remember the manufactures name, I
>do beleive that it was standard equipment on, or around our year vans!
>If you have the auto shut off valve you may well find as I did that it
>is KAPUT.
>
>When I got mine replaced by Globe Propain in CA the old guy told me that
>the Auto Shut Off type valves have been nothing but trouble since their
>introduction, better off without this c*ap he told me.
>
>If you have tried more than one service station, chances are that
>someone is doing something right.......could well be your valve!
>
>Regards,
>
>Chris Gibbs Alaska.