enblethen wrote:
Make sure that the drain is solid and actually leaks water under the rig. A plugged lower portion could allow water to drip into operating components.
Water heater should have a small collar that is slide toward or away from the gas valve and orifice. Make sure that the burner tube is coming straight off the orifice so gas goes through the burner tube center. Suggest cleaning the burner tube. The critters like to build webs and nests in them.
I see the collar with the slots in it and understand that this is where the air is mixed with the gas, how is this adjusted to get the right burn?
I will check the drain.
I have two problems now with the refrigerator.
1) The thermocouple arrived from Dometic.
The invoice has the correct serial number, model number and product code on the invoice.
The thermocouple however is way to long.
The one in the burner is only as long as the black anodized tube on the new one. The tube ends there on the original one and the wires make a 90 degree turn and run in back off the gas solenoid. The new one will not fit as the copper tube would need to run right through the gas solenoid.
I have called Dometic, they are sending a second one at no charge, and they think it is bagged incorrectly. I looked one up on fee-bay and it looks like the one that Dometic sent me.
2) I have the dreaded extra parts left over. I do not understand it. I took pictures the whole time, I was very careful, but I have this bracket and screw left over.
On the bracket the screw fits like it should be in the hole, there is only one hole, and it is not threaded.
The underside is sort of clean like it was up against something. The bracket shows no sign that the screw was ever installed in the bracket (no clean areas or scratch marks).
The screw is a machine screw, not a sheet metal screw.
I have reviewed all the pictures I took while taking the unit apart, I have taken the unit apart twice now and can find no place where this would have gone.
It does look like there should have been a bracket on the end of the burner to hold the thermocouple in place but there wasn't one when I took the unit apart. This bracket will not fit in that location.
HELP!!!!!
