New Member Maintenance Questions

Good morning from the new owner of a 179. Great trailer with three road trips behind us since June 1. The first two excursions went great and the 179 performed well. This last trip though two issues surfaced that I need some assistance with. I could not use the gas option on the refrigerator no matter how many times I tried. The R-Pod was level and the gas turned on (a lesson I learned on trip 1). The second issue was the DSI fault light was on when I tried to use the water heater.

I look forward to hearing from you and appreciate your taking time to make sure I am ready for road trip four later this week.

Tom   

Your symptoms indicate neither the WH or fridge are getting Propane. Make sure there is gas in the bottle and the air is bled out of the lines. Do this by lighting and burning the stove. There have been problems with the Propane regulator, but simple things first. The red light on the WH will come on and stay on until the burner lights. If it doesn't light after several tries (no gas) it locks out and stays on until manual reset. 

Tom,

Out of level will not impede ignition of the WH or fridge. The fridge needs to be within +/- 3 degrees left to right and +/-6 degrees front to back, WRT the fridge itself, to function but not to light. The WH doesn't care. Make sure no wasps etc have taken up residence in the fridge burner flue. Altitude has been a problem so lower altitude should tell you a story. The fridge and WH are ambient air burners whereas the furnace has a blower for combustion air like an auto supercharger.