Very slow propane leak: how to find it?
Here is the problem: even with all appliances off, but the propane tank turned on, I am losing a quarter of a gallon of propane in a 24 hr. period. (I have weighed the tank -- it lost a pound a day,...
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Dan,
I had the same situation going on in our Class C for years after we had bought it new! Except probably my leak was less than yours, so our RV was usable other than for our propane use seeming to be a bit too much week after week from an 18 gallon tank.
I didn't feel there was any safety issue because the leak could only be smelled when outside, in the immediate vicinity of the tank.
I finally had it thoroughly looked into by a competent RV repair shop last year: The small leak was from the threads in the steel sleeve where the brass fill valve was screwed into the steel tank. The shop said that probably the threads in the tank had been slightly stripped during robotic machine assembly of the tank.
I had a new tank installed and the technician said that indeed the tank threads were dinged up. Now finally, we have no smell outside and a longer lasting propane supply.
Any propane leak into, or originating within, the interior of the RV is of course a different and dangerous situation. Keep after it till it's fixed!!
I had the same situation going on in our Class C for years after we had bought it new! Except probably my leak was less than yours, so our RV was usable other than for our propane use seeming to be a bit too much week after week from an 18 gallon tank.
I didn't feel there was any safety issue because the leak could only be smelled when outside, in the immediate vicinity of the tank.
I finally had it thoroughly looked into by a competent RV repair shop last year: The small leak was from the threads in the steel sleeve where the brass fill valve was screwed into the steel tank. The shop said that probably the threads in the tank had been slightly stripped during robotic machine assembly of the tank.
I had a new tank installed and the technician said that indeed the tank threads were dinged up. Now finally, we have no smell outside and a longer lasting propane supply.
Any propane leak into, or originating within, the interior of the RV is of course a different and dangerous situation. Keep after it till it's fixed!!
