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Fosters
Explorer
Oct 24, 2016

Horrible, Awful, Stinky, etc......FURNANCE HEATER SMELL!!!

My 1st 5th Wheel (or RV for that manner) so an LP furnace new to me. We all know that in a regular house dwelling that has Natural Gas and one has a leak, it smells like "bad eggs" right? Well, the ...
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SCVJeff
Explorer
Oct 24, 2016
If that heater is really circa. 1971, get a CO detector and make sure you keep it on. I had the same issue with the heater in my 85 Pace-Arrow... An Unidentified smell that appeared all of a sudden and turned out that the burner tube had developed a hole in it and you could see flame leaking out. What the smell was I don't know, but I think it was like rotten eggs. Been awhile.

Needless to say it was dead

(edit: oops... no idea where "1971 came from)

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