Is it possible that you had both the propane and 12v heater on at the
same time? There is no interlock and running both will cause the
solution inside to overheat and boil. This will eventually cause the
solution to crystalaize and ruin the system.

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
Of David and Shirin
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 9:53 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: 1982 westy fridge noises

Just got back from a trip to the beach in the Westy.  We made it back
under our own power so lets just say that the trip will be considered a
success :)   kind of like any landing you can walk away from is a good
landing.....   one of the things that went wrong was with the fridge, we
were running it on propane while driving, and it began making noise,
like it was boiling over.  So we shut it down for a half hour and then
restarted it.  Well it did it another couple times and it got to be
annoying to go back and shut the thing off but we kept on shutting it
off for fear of hurting something.  We have used this fridge alot while
driving before and never had this problem.   What causes the noise and
would we have hurt it if we had just left it on and kept driving.  We
continued to use the fridge and it never gave us any problem on our nice
level camping sites.

David

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