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Paul_Turpin
Dec 12, 2006Explorer
Part Two
On the way down the interstate we started to smell a strange exhaust odor inside. It got so bad that it set off the CO alarm. We pulled over and open all the windows and tried to figure out what was going on. The only thing was I forgot to turn off the refrigerator and it went to gas. We turned it off and drove for awhile and no fumes. The wife turned the fridge back on gas and the fumes came back. Never had this before but figured it was the way the wind was working, we were driving 60 mph east and we had a heavy headwind (40+) coming from the southeast hitting the outside refrigerator vents just right pushing the fumes inside. At the campground I got a fan and blowing in the refrigerator outside openings with the vent covers off (I did have a few come by wanting to know what I was Doing). The wind from the fan would work its way into the rig at the top of the refrigerator at the control panel between the door and control panel.
I sealed the top and half way down both sides on the outside of the refrigerator just below the propane burner exhaust. It is real tight to get to the bottom part. On the way home we still got a little flumes and I am going to seal the bottom half.
Don't know how long this was going on because we only use the propane setting on the refrigerator a few times. But after thinking back we did get that strange odor in the past (Propane exhaust) and thought it was a car or truck exhaust.
On the way down the interstate we started to smell a strange exhaust odor inside. It got so bad that it set off the CO alarm. We pulled over and open all the windows and tried to figure out what was going on. The only thing was I forgot to turn off the refrigerator and it went to gas. We turned it off and drove for awhile and no fumes. The wife turned the fridge back on gas and the fumes came back. Never had this before but figured it was the way the wind was working, we were driving 60 mph east and we had a heavy headwind (40+) coming from the southeast hitting the outside refrigerator vents just right pushing the fumes inside. At the campground I got a fan and blowing in the refrigerator outside openings with the vent covers off (I did have a few come by wanting to know what I was Doing). The wind from the fan would work its way into the rig at the top of the refrigerator at the control panel between the door and control panel.
I sealed the top and half way down both sides on the outside of the refrigerator just below the propane burner exhaust. It is real tight to get to the bottom part. On the way home we still got a little flumes and I am going to seal the bottom half.
Don't know how long this was going on because we only use the propane setting on the refrigerator a few times. But after thinking back we did get that strange odor in the past (Propane exhaust) and thought it was a car or truck exhaust.
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