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SlowBro
Explorer III
Mar 30, 2015

Water heater large yellow lazy flame, lots of odor 10' away

I have a Suburban SW6DE. It seems to be heating water but the flame is large, yellow, and lazy. I'd expected tight and blue. I closed up the door and after about an hour or so, 10 feet away could stil...
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naturist
Nomad
Mar 30, 2015
cdevidal wrote:
Blue Hill wrote:
X4. Spiders. I get them every so often. I clean the tube and I'm good to go. This has happened to my gas barbeque as well.


Thanks all. I am not near the rig at the moment; Is it just a matter of running through a pipe cleaner or is there some special knowledge?


Nope. Pretty obvious what to do. Poke around, you'll find the mess. No need to be forceful, a wire or pipe cleaner just won't go anyplace not meant for airflow.

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