Bella's Dad
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The burner on my Dometic RML 9435 fridge has rusted so that some of the gas slots are bigger than they should be - as a result the flames are unstable (and very noisy).
I need to fit a new burner - which I have. I intend to change the burner myself and get a gas engineer to check the gas connection when I'm finished.
The Dometic burner has 2 cables attached to it - one for the ignition and one for the thermocouple. These cables plug into a control unit at the top of the fridge. This control unit is accessible through the top vent and the burner is accessible through the bottom vent.
I need to thread the new cables up the back of the fridge and plug them into the control unit. Has anyone who has changed these cables or the burner got any suggestions on how to thread the new cables please? I'm really reluctant to have to move the fridge out to get better access if I can possibly help it. A technician at a M/H garage quoted 15 minutes to change the burner so I'm guessing it can't be too difficult to do (PS the garage is a 200 mile round trip for me so I'd like to try to avoid taking the M/H there if I can). If all else fails I'll look for a local M/H engineer to do the job but I'd really like to try myself first.
I'm thinking of the tying string to the existing cables at the top - pulling them down through the cavity between the back of the fridge and the wall of the motorhome and then tying the new cables to the string and pulling the new cables back up to the control unit. I can't drop the new cables down the cavity as they are attached to the gas burner and don't seem to unplug. There also doesn't appear to be straight line access from the burner up to the control unit with all the other gubbins of the fridge in the way - it seems to be a bit of a convoluted path that the existing cables take from burner to control unit.
Anyone got any experience of trying to do this? Any and all suggestions very welcome.
Many thanks
I need to fit a new burner - which I have. I intend to change the burner myself and get a gas engineer to check the gas connection when I'm finished.
The Dometic burner has 2 cables attached to it - one for the ignition and one for the thermocouple. These cables plug into a control unit at the top of the fridge. This control unit is accessible through the top vent and the burner is accessible through the bottom vent.
I need to thread the new cables up the back of the fridge and plug them into the control unit. Has anyone who has changed these cables or the burner got any suggestions on how to thread the new cables please? I'm really reluctant to have to move the fridge out to get better access if I can possibly help it. A technician at a M/H garage quoted 15 minutes to change the burner so I'm guessing it can't be too difficult to do (PS the garage is a 200 mile round trip for me so I'd like to try to avoid taking the M/H there if I can). If all else fails I'll look for a local M/H engineer to do the job but I'd really like to try myself first.
I'm thinking of the tying string to the existing cables at the top - pulling them down through the cavity between the back of the fridge and the wall of the motorhome and then tying the new cables to the string and pulling the new cables back up to the control unit. I can't drop the new cables down the cavity as they are attached to the gas burner and don't seem to unplug. There also doesn't appear to be straight line access from the burner up to the control unit with all the other gubbins of the fridge in the way - it seems to be a bit of a convoluted path that the existing cables take from burner to control unit.
Anyone got any experience of trying to do this? Any and all suggestions very welcome.
Many thanks
