I still rely on the battery power for keeping the fridge cold when
driving.  Works like a champ every time.
Even have to defrost sometimes.

Steven
91 Westy

On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 6:16 PM Jim. Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:

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>  The only thing that has allowed my fridge to blow out under way has been
> flue misalignment. The one exception was driving through a thunderstorm on
> the Gulf of Mexico so violent that it killed 8 sailors nearby at the same
> time. I had to remove the stove and found leaves blocking the inlet down
> deep just above the fire box. I am not likely to experience such a thing
> again, hopefully. That was the last time it blew out, many thousands of
> miles ago.
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> Jim
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> > On Jun 30, 2019 at 2:40 PM,  <Alistair Bell (mailto:albell@shaw.ca)>
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> >  I kinda doubt the o ring seal would be an issue. But it’s funny how
> some of us have little issues with fridge blowing out and others do.
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> > I have seen kn some vans, the black rubber, the big one, seal not
> sitting tight to body. That’s more of water etc ingress problem, but mine
> lies flat and I’ve struggled with other vans getting the same nice tight
> fit.
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> > Alistair
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> > >  On Jun 30, 2019, at 12:16 PM, Neil N  <musomuso@gmail.com>  wrote:
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> > >  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.
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> > >  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
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> > >  set of callipers but.....
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> > >  Image of manifold "lip"
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> > >  https://tinyurl.com/y4trgtb5
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> > >  Neil.
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> > >>  On 6/30/19, Alistair Bell  <albell@shaw.ca>  wrote:
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> > >>  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.
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> > >>  Those screw holes can get wallowed out.
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> > >  --
> > >  Neil n
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> > >  VE7TBN
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> > >  1988 Westy 50º ABA swap: https://tinyurl.com/yap5hpwt
> > >
> > >  1981 Westy 15º ABA swap: https://tinyurl.com/y9n4xob8
> > >
> > >  VAG Gas Engine Swap Group  <http://tinyurl.com/khalbay>
> >
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