Nice.  I did a project a couple years ago that was aimed at keeping
the heat away from the back surface of the refrigerator.  I used an
insulated wrap made for... I think starters.  I did some cutting,
wrapping and gluing with high temp silicon to customize it to fit the
hot exhaust side of the propane burner circuit.  Here are some photos
I hope you'll be able to get
to:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/111749110288126077879/albums/5661160958757768769?authkey=CPnJwM-kuNzGMg
I also used reflectix type insulation all over the back of the
fridge.  (somewhere I have photos of that too.)  This has probably
made a bigger difference in fridge performance than anything else I
have done.  I took out the little fan I had installed inside the
fridge because I don't think it was doing any good.  I do not believe
the problem is getting the cold out of the aluminum fins into the
air, the problem is making enough cold!  Taking the aluminum fins off
the "cold pipe" cleaning both surfaces and making good contact
between those two is probably next in line for making the most
improvement in performance.  I put a thin coat of thermal compound on
the aluminum part and then put it in and took it back out a number of
times to see where there was lack of contact.  That gave me the info
to know where to press to get them to mate up best.  I added more
thermal paste to fill any remaining gaps.

Edward

At 07:54 PM 3/25/2014, Neil N wrote:
>Hi all.
>
>A recent Dometic fridge post reminded of this huge set of Dometic 182 images.
>
>http://www.flickr.com/photos/werksforwagens/sets/72157594499353583/
>
>Seems a timely post given that people are unearthing their Westies for
>the camping season.
>
>I found these images and comments to be quite helpful when cleaning,
>fixing, modding my Dometics but as folks say, YMMV.
>
>Neil.
>
>--
>Neil n
>
>Blog: tubaneil.blogspot.ca
>
>'88 Westy http://tinyurl.com/c8rlw6p
>
>'81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco"  http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/
>
>Vanagon VAG *Gas* inline-VR Engine Swap Group:
>
>http://tinyurl.com/d7gd5ej