Marshall 290 LP Reg. Remove Plastic Cover? Edit: PIC

[Vanagon Nut]

Hi all.

This is for the Marshall 290 regulator on my LP tank. Vent faces down, adjuster is covered and facing the tank.

Any tips on how to get plastic cover off and on, w/o damaging it?

Thanks,

Neil.

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1981 Westy DIY 15º ABA
(VW Gas I4)

1988 Westy DIY 50º ABA

VE7TBN

[RadioRental]

This is probably too obvious so I'm curious why it wouldn't work. Is there anything stopping you from prying one of the four plastic clips back enough to get the cover moving? That appears to me how the cover went on.

Now, if there's not enough room to back the cover off like that without hitting the tank then you're going to have to disconnect at that brass coupling on the right of you picture
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'87 2.1. 125K 4spd Not rebuilt "Red Dwarf"

[Vanagon Nut]

RadioRental. Thanks.

yah, no room.

Reading the archives, Karl M refers to a Marshall 294. This model may install with pressure adjustment facing out and vent down. Googled images did not show this that I could see.

Issue is: regulator bulges out toward tank. Cover fits over this, but there is mere mm's between tank and cover.

Edit: cover was obviously installed before reg was.

This was done by a shop. Not me.

I will be experimenting with pressure adjustment. Don't want to play with fittings more than I need to. Mind you I guess two times isn't too much.

Neil.

Neil.
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1981 Westy DIY 15º ABA
(VW Gas I4)

1988 Westy DIY 50º ABA

VE7TBN

[PDXWesty]

It looks like you need to loosen the fitting at the tank end and swing the regulator out away from the tank. That's the only way I see to do it.
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89 Westy 2.1 Auto

[Vanagon Nut]

[Vanagon Nut]

Ok. Thanks for the help. Once LH thread nut at shut off valve loosened, I could turn reg etc. a *little* CW (looking to front of van) Cover then came off. I watched to make sure that turning happened at pipe where it enters LH nut and not elsewhere. Checked for leaks after all was done.


Neil.
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1981 Westy DIY 15º ABA
(VW Gas I4)

1988 Westy DIY 50º ABA

VE7TBN

[blakeck2]

Just curious as I just got a new Volkscafe regulator in the mail, why does it need to be pointed down?
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1986 Vanagon Syncro GL, westy interior, GW 2.4 and all locked up

1973 Thing

[Vanagon Nut]

[Terry Kay]

<<"Regulators should always be covered or in a compartment that restricts water from getting in. This is an oversimplification of the RVIA code. A towable with a cover over all of the propane storage system including the regulator is considered to be covered. Motorhomes with an underbelly tank need to have a cover over the regulator. Regulators have a vent that allows them to breathe as the diaphragm moves up and down to control the pressure. This vent should always point within 45° of straight down. There are two reasons for this, to restrict water from entering and if it does enter allow it to get out."

Another page suggests that water could get in and freezing>>

And here 's the problem with a Westfalia-it's tank placemet design stinks.

It doesn't make one iota of a difference which way the valve vents--the valve is parked right behind the L/H front wheel, & will catch everything being blown off of that wheel.
That propane valve can be vented up, down, left, or right--it's going to catch it all--water , snow , salt, ice, whatever.

The only protection provision VW made was the mud flap--how generous of them.

The placement of the vent hole doesn't make one difference.

I was wondering why in the heck the scewball has this valve on the tank backwards--so the cover can't be removed---crazy.




Neil.[/quote]
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T.K.

[Vanagon Nut]