Date:         Thu, 29 Oct 1998 09:10:17 -0800
Reply-To:     davidson <davidson@SIERRA.NET>
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From:         davidson <davidson@SIERRA.NET>
Subject:      Re: Refrigerator removal and Haynes/Bentley manuals
Comments: To: Earl Smith <earlsmit@ISLANDNET.COM>, vanagon@VANAGON.COM
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Instructions for removing the fridge can be found in the Dometic owner's
manual.
It is not terribly difficult to remove. It took me 1/2 hour to take it out,
1 hour to put back.
I think it would be MUCH more difficult to take out the cabinets... not
necessary.

But if all this work is to solve the smell of gas, first try filling the
propane tank. When the tank is very near empty, burning propane gives off
the smell strongly. That's because all the odor causing agents settle to
the bottom of the tank. There doesn't have to be a leak or an unclean burn
to smell the propane gas.
Bill
90 Westy Syncro
Lake Tahoe, CA


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> From: Earl Smith <earlsmit@ISLANDNET.COM>
> To: vanagon@VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Refrigirator removal and Haynes/Bentley manuals
> Date: Thursday, October 29, 1998 8:37 AM
>
> At 09:07 PM 10/28/98 -0400, you wrote:
> >There is a small smell of propane when the fridge in running on LP gas.
> >So I suppose that I will have to remove the fridge to be able to make
> >it verify by someone. Is this a complicated thing to do, is the new
> >Haynes manual give some help?
> >
> Norm, my Hayes manual doesn't cover the camper section of a Westy.  You
will
> need a Bently.  It is not difficult but you have two choices: remove the
> whole kitchen cabinet and then take out the fridge, or remove the fridge
> alone.  IMHO removing the cabinet is easier.  Warning: if you plan to
remove
> the cabinet, first look in the compartment under the driver seat for a
sheet
> metal screw that goes through the sheet metal and into the cabinet.  If
> there is one, remove it first.
>
> While you have the fridge out, stand it upside down for 48 hours to get
the
> ammonia mixed up in the system again.
>
>
> Earl from Sunny Sooke, B.C.
>  At the tip of soon-to-be-overloaded-and-sink Vancouver Island
> 84 ex-California Westie