Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:21:09 -0700
Reply-To:     Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Puzzling water drip
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On 8/27/2009 9:19 AM mcneely4@cox.net wrote:

> Mr. Squirrel, if water overflowed the fill up tube, it may have run into
> the wall of the van, especially if the filler housing is cracked or
> misfit.  Contrary to what some others have said, there is some
> fiberglass insulation between the van outside body wall and the
> cabinetry inside.  I would suspect that the fiberglass was saturated,
> and it took a while for the water to drip out.  If so, it is a potential
> rust initiator.

That's MISTER Squirrel to you.

Wait -- that's what you said. Never mind.

I sure hope I have not loaded up the insulation between the van wall and
appliances and floor edge down there with water, sogging its way through
all the capillaries and rusting its way through to the outside. It's been
up in the 80s and 90s past few days so I would think the water would be
baked out by now. But who knows?

Is there some place to inspect for dampness that doesn't require much in
the way of disassembly of cabinets and appliances? Remember, the van was
parked nose downhill and the drip was coming out between the propane bits
and the wheel well, pretty much where the floor hits the van side.

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
Bend, OR
KG6RCR