The time today for working on the fridges has been moved to this afternoon, 12:00 on. We may do it again tomorrow , Sunday 10:00, if there is enough interest. So far I just finished putting new foam in the upper bed, installed a new luggage rack seal, and pop-riveted a new tie down into position to replace a missing one. There was a real mess of debris under the fiberglass rack section. While the rack was off I installed stainless washers inside under the drain holes so only smaller stuff can fall in there now. The original drain holes are too large so all sorts of leaves, berries, pine needles, etc build up in there. Mark Oceanside 82 Westy, 1.9TD 87 Syncro Camper, 2.2 5 cyl Mark Drillock wrote: > Tomorrow I will be taking out one or more of my Westy fridges for a > thorough servicing. I invite other Socal Westy owners with fridges that > work poorly or that may need burner chamber cleaning to come over and do > theirs too. It is not as hard as people fear and can turn what some use > as a storage cabinet back into a real fridge.I have done this to many > Westys with fridges that don't work well. Usually a cleaning takes care > of the problems or at least greatly improves the propane operation. We > will also check that the propane pressure regulators are set to the > proper pressure. This is one cause for Westy fridges that won't cool > well on propane. We will also test the temp switch that runs the fridge > fan. The fan must cycle on and off or cooling will be meager on warm > days. > > Anyone interested, we start at 10 am. Let me know by p-mail and I will > give directions. > > Mark > Oceanside > |
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