Suburban Water Heater Troubleshooting

forumcoach wrote:
The reason Suburban Gas Valves fail is because a majority of them drip on the coils. The drip tray underneath the TP Valve is almost always bent downward away from the burner box causing them to drip onto the coil and eventually short out.

The proper angle for the drip tray is for it to be bent up causing the them to drain next to the burner box. You will see a little notch in the drip tray on the burner side as part of the drain design.

Suburban has told me that the Manufacturers are bending them down at install. Majority of them in the field are wrong so hard to believe.
Regardless, bend the drip tray up to prevent failure to your new gas valve.