Bloke selling a Transit says it's had a conversion done by these guys, in
Wolverhampton, and that it's a far superior conversion to the standard Ford
factory LPG conversion.

Is he right? It's got about 200k on the clock, and had a top end rebuild at
180k - said it was worn out and that petrol engines don't last as long as
diesel engines. Well in my experience, and from what I've heard of modern
oils and longevity these days, I can't see any reason in the world why
something regularly serviced with modern synthetic oils (it uses fully
synth) wouldn't still be fine after even 300-400k, like most BMW straight-6
engines (as an example), and Volvo/Saab, etc etc, have happily managed for
ages.

Suppose it could be the 30k oil drain intervals (which I'll be decreasing to
10k, personally).

Anyway - AG Nicholas McLaren - do they do a good LPG conversion?

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"AstraVanMan" wrote in message
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Bloke selling a Transit says it's had a conversion done by these guys, in
Wolverhampton, and that it's a far superior conversion to the standard
Ford
factory LPG conversion.

Is he right? It's got about 200k on the clock, and had a top end rebuild
at
180k - said it was worn out and that petrol engines don't last as long as
diesel engines. Well in my experience, and from what I've heard of modern
oils and longevity these days, I can't see any reason in the world why
something regularly serviced with modern synthetic oils (it uses fully
synth) wouldn't still be fine after even 300-400k, like most BMW
straight-6
engines (as an example), and Volvo/Saab, etc etc, have happily managed for
ages.

Suppose it could be the 30k oil drain intervals (which I'll be decreasing
to
10k, personally).

Anyway - AG Nicholas McLaren - do they do a good LPG conversion?

Cant say about the LPG conversion people, but it'd have been the valve seats
that were shot in all probabilty rather than anything else in the 2.3 I4.

My Central heating firm runs a fleet of LPG'd vehicles, some are OEM current
shape Trannys; which he says are always giving annoying problems but
generally go ok.

timm..

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"AstraVanMan" wrote:

Anyway - AG Nicholas McLaren - do they do a good LPG conversion?

If you mean Nicholson McLaren in Finchampstead (near Wokingham), when
they re-did my Range Rover they did a very professional job. Their main
business is making racing engines, so they know what they're doing.
However, that's not to say that somebody else couldn't do a bodge job of
fitting one of their kits.