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SteveW is currently offline  SteveW   United States
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Greetings from Southern California -

Has anyone done a "dual fuel" conversion to a 4KW onan generator... In a 23 footer ??

Jerry -

Might it be significantly different than your Western States write up ??

Thanks in advance for your comments.

Steve W
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Re: Propane to 4KW onan [message #322707 is a reply to message #322625] Sat, 26 August 2017 22:21 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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As you guessed, the Western States presentation by Jerry Work will not work in the 4K Onan. There's no space to mount the fuel control module on the 4K engine. I believe I've seen a propane modification where the fuel control was mounted at the back of the battery compartment which is a possiblity. Aside from the mounting logistics, most of the parts from WS Carb would be needed to convert the 4K.

Jack Christensen - K6ROW, '76 Glenbrook/Clasco - "The Silver Bullet", Sebastopol, CA
Re: Propane to 4KW onan [message #322733 is a reply to message #322625] Sun, 27 August 2017 10:37 Go to previous messageGo to next message
SteveW is currently offline  SteveW   United States
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Thank you Captain Jack !!

I'll poke around for a location... My onan battery compartment is already stuffed with two 12V Optima (house) batteries.

I figure that the carb "insert" will be the same.

How far away (from the carb) can the fuel control module be ?? I suspect that this distance is not a critical factor...

Thanks again,
Steve W
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Re: [GMCnet] Propane to 4KW onan [message #322755 is a reply to message #322707] Sun, 27 August 2017 15:19 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Rd not quite true
See here and more to follow soon
https://www.facebook.com/groups/classicgmcmotorhomes/


On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 8:22 PM Jack Christensen wrote:

> As you guessed, the Western States presentation by Jerry Work will not
> work in the 4K Onan. There's no space to mount the fuel control module on
> the
> 4K engine. I believe I've seen a propane modification where the fuel
> control was mounted at the back of the battery compartment which is a
> possiblity. Aside from the mounting logistics, most of the parts from WS
> Carb would be needed to convert the 4K.
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> '76 Glenbrook/Clasco - "The Silver Bullet",
> Sebastopol, CA
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Re: [GMCnet] Propane to 4KW onan [message #322756 is a reply to message #322755] Sun, 27 August 2017 15:24 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 1:19 PM gene Fisher wrote:

> Rd not quite true
> See here and more to follow soon
> https://www.facebook.com/groups/classicgmcmotorhomes/
>
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=o.183025891821956&type=1


>
> On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 8:22 PM Jack Christensen
> wrote:
>
>> As you guessed, the Western States presentation by Jerry Work will not
>> work in the 4K Onan. There's no space to mount the fuel control module on
>> the
>> 4K engine. I believe I've seen a propane modification where the fuel
>> control was mounted at the back of the battery compartment which is a
>> possiblity. Aside from the mounting logistics, most of the parts from WS
>> Carb would be needed to convert the 4K.
>> --
>> Jack Christensen - K6ROW,
>> '76 Glenbrook/Clasco - "The Silver Bullet",
>> Sebastopol, CA
>>
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>
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Re: [GMCnet] Propane to 4KW onan [message #322763 is a reply to message #322756] Sun, 27 August 2017 16:16 Go to previous message
captjack is currently offline  captjack   United States
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Gnen,
Congratulations I didn't think it could be done! It looks like the generator compartment was also modified. Was that a requirement? Also, the control module isn't that close to the carb where the injector is located which was a concern.


Jack Christensen - K6ROW, '76 Glenbrook/Clasco - "The Silver Bullet", Sebastopol, CA
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