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bluhaven
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Sep 15, 2014

water heater won't stay lit

water heater won't stay lit, burner lights but goes out immediately. i have propane, stove and fridge work fine and the water heater was working just fine yesterday. This is in a 2004 arctic fox camper. Any ideas on what to check, I'm in a campground at the moment.

Kevin
Truck Campers

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  • Doogie_in_Elk_G's avatar
    Doogie_in_Elk_G
    Explorer
    Sep 15, 2014
    Most likely it's a spider web in the gas/air mixture pipe. Take it off and push a strip of a rag through it and see if a web comes out. I had this issue and looked in the pipe and didn't see anything. $50 for a repair guy to come out and stick a cleaner through it and show me the spider web.

    Keep a flea and tick collar in the hot water heater compartment. Spiders are attached to the propane.

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