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Date:         Mon, 4 Sep 2006 21:41:06 -0400
Reply-To:     Dennis Haynes <dhaynes@OPTONLINE.NET>
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From:         Dennis Haynes <dhaynes@OPTONLINE.NET>
Subject:      Re: Refrigerator: Fup...Fup............Fup
Comments: To: David Milo <dellaone@GMAIL.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <73bad2170609011931w59eb9592sf036a968c2ead27c@mail.gmail.com>
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The flup sound and yellow flame indicates you are having a draft problem. You are not getting a good supply of air. You need to make sure the baffle plate in the vent assembly is there, and tightly fitted to the center pipe. Debris may have fallen into the combustion chamber after use. The pipes do rust internally. You can try blowing the burner assembly out by using compressed air into the drain tube.

Dennis

-----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of David Milo Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 10:32 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Refrigerator: Fup...Fup............Fup

It is the eve of our first camping trip in 15 years. I have a Westy interior from a 1982 installed in my 1987 Syncro. After cleaning the refrigerator combustion chamber and intake / exhaust tubes of the fridge about a month ago, I was able to get the propane tank serviced to full (it still had about a gallon in it from before), and successfully got the fridge to light for the first time. I ran it for about two hours. It got nice and cold, no issues, and all was well.

I ran it again tonight. After two false starts, it finally lit. About two minutes later, it started to make a soft single "fup" or "futt" noise (best I can describe it); this occurs every 5 seconds or so, but not regularly, sometimes it will go for a while, 20 seconds, without a noise. Looking at the flame shows a little flash of yellow, but not always.

I let it run for an hour and a half, it still got cold, and remained lit while I drove the van around the block.

I'm suspecting crummy propane. The only thing I didn't touch was the gas jet. Modifying the position of the thermostat and gas valve doesn't seem to make any difference. It had run very nicely before with no noise, so I'm not suspecting the gas jet (yet).

Any ideas? The archives were mute on this particular subject (the noise, not refrigerators).

Thanks,

Dave


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