Good stuff!  Just went through this with my LT Westy.   The Dometic in it
was only about 10 years old (auto ignite even) and it just stopped
cooling.  Always would light well, but just no coolness.  The chamber was
almost completely plugged.  Now I can make ice cubes :)

Jason

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 10:23 PM, Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@gmail.com>
wrote:

> These things really aren't hard to work on, are they!  A tune up every 30
> years or so and you are good to go.
>
> Stuart
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
> Of Jim Felder
> Sent: Friday, May 22, 2015 3:10 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Followup to fridge troubles--success!
>
> I posted during the week that my fridge would no longer operate on gas.
> Stuart described making a manometer, and thankfully the regulator was
> easily ruled out with a few bucks worth of clear tubing. I knew I had a
> noisy fan, so I ordered the beefy GoWesty replacement. It looks very good
> and was easy to install.
>
> I pulled the unit yesterday afternoon and cleaned the combustion chamber.
> Something flew out of the flue pipe when I put compressed air to them but
> I was not quick enough to see just what it was, I could hear it hit the
> combustion chamber pan. Maybe a leaf. You may recall that I had been in 70+
> mph winds right before I began having problems.
>
> I opened the combustion chamber and it had a good bit of black grit inside
> the burner itself, and some around the chamber. Cleaned it all up and
> reinstalled the unit today.
>
> It now lights up no problem, and where it was doing good to pull a 20-25
> degree difference from ambient, it was 86 today and the fridge temps
> hovered just over 40 degrees F.
>
> Very happy! Thanks to Stuart, Dennis and David B.
>
> Jim
>