Yeah, it's under the very '70s orange n' yellow hallway rug, so wouldn't have been visually obvious as a furnace when you were here.
Yeah, installing a 'replacement' valve requires I replace the pilot system, so this repair's parts cost is more than I paid for the whole furnace when it failed the first night of Snow Jam '82 (~$306 Vs ~$350), though of course there's inflation to consider. If I wanted to gamble on a used valve, they can be had for as little as $75 plus shipping with the caveat that there's no return policy. The upside is that the new pilot system doesn't require any manual lighting or stopping, it's done automatically via the thermostat setting, so less hassle and slightly less expensive to run.
Yeah, with the flex hoses available now I wouldn't bother with a new hard line adapter if I didn't already have some tubing/fittings left over from '82 and the flaring tool required.
AFA doing the conversion, it's easier to just lift it out of the floor and work on it in the hallway once all the plumbing is disconnected, but doing the shop roof fired up my sciatica to near complete immobilization of my left leg, so pretty much stuck in one room most of the time anyway.
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