Thats useful to know; I'm sure I wasn't the only owner-operator to
have misaligned the intake and exhaust tubes a little during fridge
removal, re install.

The other part to that equation is the O rings that seal the
corrugated intake and exhaust tubes to the (aluminum?) manifold. It
was likely a needless thing to do, i.e. the OE rings might well have
been fine, but I installed new Viton O rings on those corrugated pipes
but was never absolutely certain they were butting right up against
the lip inside each opening at the manifold. I measured things with a
set of callipers but.....

Image of manifold "lip"

https://tinyurl.com/y4trgtb5

Neil.

On 6/30/19, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:

> One thing about the exhaust, apart from having good gasket and seal, there
> is enough meat on the metal to re tap next simple up, for the machine screws
> that hold the exhaust and intake ends onto the stainless vent assembly.
>
> Those screw holes can get wallowed out.

-- 
Neil n

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