Hi all,
This is my first post, thanks in advance to any and all help anyone can give.
We recently bought a new (old) van. Its fridge works like a treat on electricity, not so
well on gas. I know this has been asked prob a million times before, and i have read much advice on here already, so i wont ask the same questions. I will provide some info on what ive done and under what conditions it does work on gas below, but my main question is:-
In the fridge, or rather the freezer i guess, are two tubes. My old van only had one. These two tubes are arranged like a horizontal 'U' shape. One smaller, and the bigger one goes around the smaller one. Only the middle, smaller one gets cold, the other eventually gets cool, but only from the ambient temp in the fridge as it cools down it seems. In fact it seems to get warmer in the shorter run. Does anyone know if this is normal, or if the both should be getting cold?
OK, so here is some more info. The fridge sometimes seemed to work on gas when i has pulled it forward and after taking off the outside panel had access to another panel on the back of the fridge itself, which i then took off, exposing the burner flame. Like this is seemed to work ok, but its obviously not a realistic option to use it like that outside of testing situation, ie no family inside sleeping.
The flame burns nice and blue, even with that cover on (it can be seen through a looking glass in the back of the fridge), but i have no idea how big or small one of these flames should actually be.
I have checked the
chimney thing, the baffle is still in place, given the actual burner a blow out and suck with a vacuum cleaner, as much as i could get it to fit that it, which wasnt very
well, it wouldnt have done a great deal. It is pretty hard to get it off to clean it properly, which i believe should be a soak in some alcohol variety, cant remember which off the top of my head.
The model number of the fridge is hard to make good sense of, i could attach a
pic if it would tell anyone something, but basically it read:
British Domestic Appliances LTD
Type: 7306/98
Seems clear enough, but i cant find a single mention of the the brand anywhere on ye old google.
Anywho, be
well!
Yaren
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Tow Vehicle: Nissan 4WD
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