Mitch,

I made the mods to my air pump as detailed in Bentley (but didn't replace
the check valve, although I played with the existing one some to get the
openings a little bigger and make sure the ball moved freely.)
Made a tremendous difference.  Also lubricated the pump with silicone
grease (forget whether Bentley calls for that or not).   Be careful
drilling out the stem at the back of the pump.   I chickened out and didn't
use quite as large a drill as called for in Bentley.

Fridge always lights after 5-15 pumps now.

Dave
87 Wolfsburg
90 Westfalia

At 05:33 AM 10/30/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Mitchell Miller 1984 Westy camper   First, I want to thank all the
>people for their suggestions on getting my refrigerator to work on gas
>but all efforts have failed. I haven't taken it out yet. To bad because
>it was just out two days ago when the body repair shop had to gut my van
>to repair the BIG dent my wife of 15+ years put in it when she  ran into
>it the first morning I had it, but that's another story. Anyway has any
>body tried the pump modification in the R. Bentley book chapter 76.26
>the pump on my refrigerator seems to do very little, maybe this will
>help? I tried to use the search mode in the Archives but I had no luck,
>probably not it's fault. P.S. all the info on the heaters has been a big
>help! I'm going to install one of them asap. Also I'm planning a few
>trips to Tahoe this ski season and would like to know what to expect as
>far as handling in the snow and ice. Again thanks   Mitchell 84
>