Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2019 13:25:29 -0700
Reply-To: David McNeely <davmcneely40@GMAIL.COM>
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From: David McNeely <davmcneely40@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Some dometic notes
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After doing some (but not all) of the things you did (repeatedly), and not
getting cooling on gas, I finally gave in and just removed and junked the
Dometic. If anyone wants one, either for attempting to get it working, or
for parts, come get it. I am sure that if you are not close, it would not
be worth shipping. I converted the refrigerator space to storage with
shelving, and will operate from now on with a Yeti. It keeps block ice,
frozen in heavy duty plastic jugs (actually, jugs that formerly contained
the salts that gastroenterologists prescribe for "expulsion") for a week.
And in the jugs, the ice doesn't immerse everything in water as it melts.
Instead, one has cold water available.
Just got tired of dealing with the Dometic. Better things to do with my
time, and my food and beer are actually cold now. Funny, I used to swear
by the Dometic, and I actually had at one time the Dometic cooling from 85
F ambient to 38 F in the refrigerator, as I measured it. At 80 F ambient I
froze lettuce. But I just got tired of it not cooling and not being able
to get it working with the fixes I tried once it went bad.
On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 12:40 PM Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
> I kinda doubt the o ring seal would be an issue. But it’s funny how some
> of us have little issues with fridge blowing out and others do.
>
> I have seen kn some vans, the black rubber, the big one, seal not sitting
> tight to body. That’s more of water etc ingress problem, but mine lies flat
> and I’ve struggled with other vans getting the same nice tight fit.
>
> Alistair
>
> > On Jun 30, 2019, at 12:16 PM, Neil N <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thats useful to know; I'm sure I wasn't the only owner-operator to
> > have misaligned the intake and exhaust tubes a little during fridge
> > removal, re install.
> >
> > The other part to that equation is the O rings that seal the
> > corrugated intake and exhaust tubes to the (aluminum?) manifold. It
> > was likely a needless thing to do, i.e. the OE rings might well have
> > been fine, but I installed new Viton O rings on those corrugated pipes
> > but was never absolutely certain they were butting right up against
> > the lip inside each opening at the manifold. I measured things with a
> > set of callipers but.....
> >
> > Image of manifold "lip"
> >
> > https://tinyurl.com/y4trgtb5
> >
> > Neil.
> >
> >> On 6/30/19, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
> >>
> >> One thing about the exhaust, apart from having good gasket and seal,
> there
> >> is enough meat on the metal to re tap next simple up, for the machine
> screws
> >> that hold the exhaust and intake ends onto the stainless vent assembly.
> >>
> >> Those screw holes can get wallowed out.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Neil n
> >
> > VE7TBN
> >
> > 1988 Westy 50º ABA swap: https://tinyurl.com/yap5hpwt
> >
> > 1981 Westy 15º ABA swap: https://tinyurl.com/y9n4xob8
> >
> > VAG Gas Engine Swap Group <http://tinyurl.com/khalbay>
>
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