CNG conversion
My wife found a guy in Austin, TX, whose original quote is $6,000 to add compressed natural gas. The natural gas tank will be installed where the spare tire is. So, the inconvenience is to put the spare in back. It may never pay off. But buying the equivalent of $1.60/gal for fuel is good and the clean burning CNG reduces our pollution of having 3 vehicles.
The cost is something we planned for which is why we bought a 98 in the year 2010. The used lot would sell the Expy to us for $5,000 but then we also traded in a 2000 Toyota minivan.
We'd rather install a much smaller gas tank and then add the CNG in the extra space provided. But that apparently wouldn't be feasible.
When we get close to having it done, I'll start a thread with the details.
In the meantime, I'm learning how to be a very junior backyard mechanic for this rig. Never even changed spark plugs before.
My wife found a guy in Austin, TX, whose original quote is $6,000 to add compressed natural gas. The natural gas tank will be installed where the spare tire is. So, the inconvenience is to put the spare in back. It may never pay off. But buying the equivalent of $1.60/gal for fuel is good and the clean burning CNG reduces our pollution of having 3 vehicles.
The cost is something we planned for which is why we bought a 98 in the year 2010. The used lot would sell the Expy to us for $5,000 but then we also traded in a 2000 Toyota minivan.
We'd rather install a much smaller gas tank and then add the CNG in the extra space provided. But that apparently wouldn't be feasible.
When we get close to having it done, I'll start a thread with the details.
In the meantime, I'm learning how to be a very junior backyard mechanic for this rig. Never even changed spark plugs before.
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