

| Subject: | Re: Westy Stove Leveling Ideas Sought |
| From: | Dave Mcneely |
| Date: | Tue, 17 Jul 2012 23:21:22 -0500 |
Jim, you'll have to point us to it. The link just brings up a catalog, and nothing is obvious. But the oven shown looks interesting. mcneely ---- Jim Arnott <jrasite@EONI.COM> wrote: > On Jul 17, 2012, at 7:06 PM, Rocket J Squirrel wrote: > > > Thread drift. I'm not asking for ways to level the van, I got that. > > What I'm looking for is an easy way to level the stove grill. > > Leveling it by leveling the van would require plenty of trips in and > > out to take a look at the grill's levelosity (bubble level, for > > example) then out to tweak the setup, then back in to look. Wash, > > rinse, repeat. Easier and quicker would be to just stand at the > > stove and level it through some means yet to be finalized. > > Actually not. Park with rear end high. Place level on battery box > cover behind passenger seat. Open slider. Jack to level fore and aft > at passenger front. Side to side, move level to door sill at driver's > door. Fine adjust port-starboard trim there. Total time? Five minutes > max. The grill is level (within reason) to the bus. You want perfect > level stove? Coleman stove and a box of shim shingles. Leveling the > grill alone won't work because then your cooking utensil is not level > to the flame. That will cause uneven heating. Though I suppose you > could devise a flame spreader to minimize that effect. > > What you need is this: http://www.defender.com/product.jsp?path=-1|406| > 694|330373&id=1038045 > > THAT will do what you need. (And installing it will raise the cooktop > surface a few inches which will definitely improve things.) > > Jim -- David McNeely
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