Underslung LPG Tank Installation | DIY Sprinter Van Conversion
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Yo, yo, yo! James and Sarah here, back with another episode in our van build series. This week join us underneath the van week as we install our underslung LPG tank and pipework.
This is the first time we’ve ever worked with gas, so it was a little nerve wracking to say the least. But the guys at Autogas 2000, where we purchased our van conversion LPG system, were super helpful at talking us through all the installation steps in detail.
As you’ll see in the video, the hardest part was mounting the LPG tank at the correct angle. But through sheer determination we managed to do it & after the guys at the workshop had checked it out we were good to go!
Think we were actually in shock to be honest that we had actually managed to do it!
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Here’s a full list of the components that make up our campervan LPG installation:
40Ltr Caratank (270x792mm): bit.ly/3sF1f9r
Flat to Floor Hoop Bracket Pair: bit.ly/3bWRLj4
Rubber Fixing Strips: bit.ly/3q662z1
Tank Frame Mounting Kit: bit.ly/3uMawi8
1.5m Filler Hose: bit.ly/3sHsQa2
Sill Mounted Filler Box: bit.ly/3b6myuB
Stainless Steel Pigtail: bit.ly/3bRa4WZ
30mbar Cavagna Regulator: bit.ly/3uIClaW
8mm Plastic Coated Copper Pipe (9m): bit.ly/3uNj4Fq
2 Branch LPG Manifold: bit.ly/3b9IHZk
Pipe Clips Fitting Kit: bit.ly/3r8Ao5B
8mm Straight Connector (For Oven): bit.ly/306sAW6
Gauge Sender: bit.ly/3sE56ni
Livello Fill Indicator: bit.ly/2O9lFbY
Filler Adaptor Set: bit.ly/3qd1Ayt
LPG Sticker: bit.ly/2PrR9us
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Excellent job, you two. Really enjoy watching you, progress through your van build. I'm waiting patiently on getting finances sorted to start my own build, but I have other financial commitments at the moments, will have to wait another 2 years until my feet are clear financially. Keep up the great work I'm loving what you do. 😊
This is one of the best videos I've seen on fitting an LPG system. Very clear explanations, thanks guys!
Thank you, glad you found it useful!
One of the best self build gas installations on you tube, Having finished my van over two years ago it brought back painful memories of me on my own trying to manhandle the tank into its brackets in North Scotland on a freezing wet February day. I’m still traumatised, my advice to anyone is do this with a helping hand and do it when the weather is nice or in a shop. It’s a truly horrendous job, you have no space, the tank is unbelievably heavy and awkward to manoeuvre and those rubber straps are bleeding nightmare, literally blood sweat and tears. 👍
Well done guys I’m waiting for a quote back from auto gas 2000 today after seeing this video , fingers crossed my install goes as smooth .
Ah great stuff! Say hi to the guys there from us 😀 And good luck with the install, hope it goes well 👍
Great video. I always wondered how all the connections/system works on an LPG install. Thanks for taking the time to share your detailed van build videos.
Thanks! Hopefully that answered some of your questions. There are alternative ways to install gas and plenty of people just use exchangeable gas bottles too, but we wanted to keep everything outside of the van as much as possible which is why we chose this method. Glad you enjoyed it 😊
And did the LPG gauge work using the wiring you installed. Mine is the same and doesn’t work properly.
Yes our gauge works perfectly 🤔 We’ve had no issues whatsoever. Is yours literally not turning on?
It’s on, just showing empty when tank is full. I see others have problems with these gauges.
Ah ok, so that’s probably an issue with the device itself if it’s powered up. Guess we just got lucky!
Just caught your video, must admit you gave a very simple and jargon free explanation of it all, made me feel as if this is something I can do, thanks for the courage👍
great job. I always enjoy watching your videos. Looking forward to next week! Again congrats on your big news Looking forward to see your new video updates as well!
Thank you very much 😊 It was quite a difficult install, and nerve wracking because it was gas! Such a great feeling when it got signed off though 👍 Catch you next week 😀
Well done you two for taking on putting the gas system in on your own very brave not sure I would have the confidence to do it so again fair play to you both great vlog take care.
Thank you 😊 We were absolutely bricking it until we went to see the guys at Autogas 2000 and they laid it all out in a simple way to understand. The main difficulty we had was literally getting the gas tank into the brackets and that was mainly because of the lack of space. If we’d been able to lift it up that would have made it much easier. Glad you enjoyed it anyway 😀👍
OMG guys, you are the business!!!. You should be proud of yourselves as Sarah said. I am ringing Autogas tomorrow to order my tank, I don't know if I will have enough courage to do it myself, there's getting under the van too to consider - arthritis permitting (may be a problem) haha. Take care and stay safe guys xxx
Thank you, we were unbelievably happy and quite proud once the gas got signed off 😀 Say hello to Chris and John at Autogas 2000 from us! While the installation isn’t complicated as such, it is quite difficult physically just purely because of the lack of space under there. If if you end up having them do it they’re super quick and efficient and as you saw have a lift to give them easy access. Let us know how you get on an what you decide! X
Great job and the huge plus is that by installing it yourselves you have total understanding of how it all works. Great achievement.
Thank you. Yeah you’re spot on, we did consider getting the company to fit it but, despite the difficulties it was such an amazing feeling to do it ourselves, and if anything goes wrong we should have a decent idea of how to fix it 😀
@@TheWholeWorldorNothing lol
@@langtounmcc Third TROLL comment of yours
I like your clear explanations - great job - thanks guys and best of luck !
Great job guys, thank you so much for sharing. ❤😂
Thank you guys👍
Great Video guys. I'm feeling braver now🤣 Thank you
Just for future reference you may like to try a HSS drill bit for steel, it tends to work better than a masonry bit which is generally used for....well masonry
Lovely video guys thanks for making this video also you 2 make me laugh 🙏 this is ace!
Nicely done. I'm only in the prelim' planning stage.. Subscribed :)
Hi guys great video. You skipped over connecting the pig tail, did the pigtail connector just fit straight through the hole by the on/off valve? I’m preparing to fit my tank and my pig tail doesn’t fit through the gap?!?
Amazing. Well done guys
Just put my tank on. What a f*%king, c^%t that was to get in! Have the same set up as you guys 😅
Glad you put that up. It's another job I'll have to do sooner or later so the step-by-step is nice to see. Just wondered why Sarah said you haven't earthed your electrics to the van body? Cheers
Good video but I’m puzzled why you had to turn the elbow round to connect the filler hose? Would the straight connector not fit straight on if it went through the large hole first? The elbow connection could then have gone onto the filler on the side of the van. I would have thought that by turning that fitting that amount without loosening it off was incorrect but please correct me if I’m wrong.
That was one heck of a project! Well done you guys… Thank you for sharing!
It certainly was! And not helped by the time constraints we had either 😅 Just to say as well, we haven’t had time to look into the adverts yet unfortunately, we’ve just been so busy recently. But we haven’t just ignored it, it’s still on our list of things to do 👍
@@TheWholeWorldorNothing Honestly? I have been noticing fewer ads then when I wrote about them… It’s probably a combination of whatever mood I was in at the time, and the way RUclips works just like you suggested. I am really enjoying your videos and appreciate both of you guys a lot! Thank you so much from the left coast of the United States in northern California! Oh, and congratulations on the kid! There’s that too!❤️😉
Ok great to hear! And thanks, we’re really excited about the baby 😀
Always impressed by all the knowledge you both have and patience. Takes both to be able to get the great job you both have done. Love your van and enjoy watching your videos even if I could never do this myself. (Liked the Mickey mouse cup😉)
Ah thank you, getting that gas tank on definitely tested our patience 😅 And took a lot of teamwork as you say! Wouldn’t have been possible for either of us to do alone. We really appreciate your support 😊
Knowledge?????
@@langtounmcc Second TROLL comment of yours.
@@langtounmcc Dick comment 👊
Not sure if anyone has already said or if you have changed it but the regulator NEEDS to be HIGHER than the tank.
Nice install, enjoyed watching this. Who was the gas tank supplier though please?
Was there a reason you didn’t paint or use anti-seize on the bolts or holes you drilled in the bottom. Are you not worried about rust?
Thanks for the video, I wonder if you always close the tap of the gas tank (at night, while driving etc.)? Or do you just leave it open?
👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👌🏿 brilliant 😁
Thank you 😊
the straps I have with my car LPG the straps are encased in the protective plastic much easier as you say you would think the rubber you have would be pree glued to the strap
Great video guys, really appreciate the detail.
Are you happy with your choice of a 40l tank? Are you using as much gas as you anticipated??
Great video guys! We're just fitting our LPG tank system which looks very similar to yours but were planning to fit our bracket system on top of our plywood flooring in the van, rather than drilling down to the metal floor - did your supplier explain why they recommended doing that? Thanks ☺️
Hi, sorry for the delayed reply. The system we used just isn't designed to be fitted on top of the ply, they said it wouldn't be secure enough. We have seen other people put them above but with different tanks and fitting systems to ours. Hope your install went well!
Nice job! How much did it all cost? And how much did Autogas2000 charge you to check it over? Thanks!
Thank you! Sorry for the delayed reply. The system cost us £616 and autogas2000 didn’t charge to check it all over. Hope that helps! 😀
Nice job. Does a gasafe engineer have to inspect your work?
No there’s no requirement that we’re aware of for that but we did get it checked by the company we got the system from and have regular gas checks on it as well.
Great video! We abandoned our electrical side of the install for months and the time has come now.What fuse did you end up using for the level indicator? I think you mention a 0.5 in the video but I don't they don't make blade fuses lower than 1amp? Thanks 😁
Hey, similar position now! How did you wire it up/what fuse did you use in the end?
Just to clarify, with the sender I ground it to the chassis/or my negative bus bar with the black cable, then run the green cable to connect to the receiver?
On the receiver side, I just treat it like any other 12v component & run the black cable to the negative on my blade fuse holder & the red to the positive? (Ideally it would be great if I could splice into another near by 12v cable instead, so I could save space in my fuse holder, would this be possible?
Not sure what she got when she bought it, but wiring instructions were quite vague and simple, and they dont say anything about fuses, I am struggling with this bit, just the first led will light up, no matter how much gas is in the bottle...
Well done guy’s made me yawn for use must admitt. A have taken a week off the van. Got the awning brackets and a sky light to fit. So can fit the cealing. Then full steam a head basicly wont be fitting the lpg this year will fit a smev with a bottle set up see how get on way that. But just now spending time way my dog victor 😂
Probably a good idea, we didn’t take any time off at all, think we took 6 or 7 days in 5 months, no weekends or anything and it’s not healthy! Especially not when you’re working full time as well. Enjoy your time off with Victor!
@@TheWholeWorldorNothing Deffo not healthy. Hands covered in skelves broken skin from scrubbing sika flex and other nasty stuff off.😂 yeah we have all week thanks. Hope use are having a good weekend!
How long does your gas last? What size tank did you install? In litres and dimensions? (length & width) They do so many tank sizes. I'd really like to go larger than 30 litres. Iv found a few different 38-40 litre tanks.
The gas lasts us around 3 months and that’s with pretty heavy usage - we cook on it often 3 times a day and boil the kettle many, many times for tea too. All the details of our components are down in the description below with links but it’s a 40 litre tank with dimensions of 270mm x 792mm. We’re really happy with it and would install the same one again. Hope that helps!
@@TheWholeWorldorNothing Thank you. That's a massive help. Even with all the research online, true life experience beats everything ten times over, compared to researching online. I really do appreciate the time you take with detailed replies.
No problem at all. Let us know if you have any more questions about it 👍
@@drewhodge3820 Experience????? OMG!
@@langtounmcc Are you one of those sad trolls? Seriously if you don't have anything positive to add, why bother commenting at all?
What size gas tank did you fit please? 👍
Great video! Did you install an electric level sensor or just have a rough idea of when it needs topping up? Trying to decide if £65 for the LED fill indicators are work it.
Hi. Guys :) I am very imprested what you did . Congratulations for both :) :) Quick question... Can i instal underslug tank myself and go to Somone certifited to check it ? and if they can check it did give you any certificate for that ? If yes is fantastic !!! Where is this place in North Yorkshire...? Can you recomended it ? Best Regards
We didn’t get a certificate but we didn’t require one as the van is just for personal use. They do perform gas safety checks and we’ve had them yearly since installing it, they also checked over our installation once it was complete. We would definitely recommend them, yes. Hope that helps!
@@TheWholeWorldorNothing It's great news. Can I ask where is this place? and how much roughly cost? This help me calculate my budget :)
@@_Van_Lovers it’s in Thirsk in Yorkshire and is called Autogas 2000 Leisure Ltd. The price really depends on what you want, take a look on their website or give them a call they’re really friendly and helpful 👍
@@TheWholeWorldorNothing Amazing Thanks
No worries 😌
Hey! By any chance do you know how much they charge to fit it as well? As I would like to rent the van out when not in use so would need it to be passed off by a qualified gas person.
Sorry for the delayed reply. We don't know how much it is for them to fit it I'm afraid as we had always intended to fit it ourselves so we never asked. Sorry we can't be of more help on this!
That's was a lot of work. Great job
Thanks 😊 We really felt the pressure too - we only had a couple of days to get it all in and finished so we could get it checked which didn’t help 😅
@@TheWholeWorldorNothing lol you cut out all the swearing. Love your videos guys
Haha it would have been a bit blue if we’d kept it in 😂
22:02 I know I know... But I'm sure James was practicing for your child birth at that time already, 2 fingers dilation is kind of a good start. (:
Btw this again seems like a professional job. How are the plastic pipe and the joints doing underneath the van? I mean they can get wet, mud, external damages from the road, etc.
Haha this was way way before baby was in existence, but maybe it was some sort of premonition/training!
Everything has held up really well and is still working great 👍
Great video guys, I've been thinking about an underslung tank myself but then it dawned on me that I can't remember the last time I saw a garage that sells LPG (I'm in South Wales)
Since it's been a few months since you posted this video, how easy/difficult do you find it to get the tank filled?
OMG DIY LPG Install by folk that have absolutely no freaking idea what they are doing......BOOM!!!!!
We had it all checked over by the professionals so it’s all good. 2 years and no boom yet!! 🙌
@@TheWholeWorldorNothing LOL a true pro would have told you to leggit....... I would NEVER put my name to a DIY job. The leaks alone proved your incompetence......
The leaks proved our inexperience but were nothing to do with competence. They were on olive valves which we’d been explicitly instructed not to over-tighten as it’s not possible to loosen them. DIY lpg installations are very common and all of the large lpg sellers offer kits specifically created for DIY installation. The company we bought ours from offers a service where they then check the installation once complete to ensure that it’s up to scratch and, most importantly, safely installed. We’re very confident that ours is just that and would rather take our advice from qualified professionals.
@@TheWholeWorldorNothing No..... it was indeed incompetence. You have not completed the training to be classed competent in installation of gas supply......, therefor indeed incompetent....... I on the other hand have and am well qualified to point out your incompetence......
@@TheWholeWorldorNothing The firm you purchased the kit from is sales orientated and are quite happy to take money from anyone. They ARE NOT gas installation specialists by any means so are NOT qualified to give gas related advice. They can only give advice on the product itself as per a spec sheet. Training, experience qualification and certification are necessary to be deemed competent......
Was that gas safe ptfe tape or plumbing tape?