GMCers,
A while back there were several postings on "that odor". Three months
ago I started smelling something bad that seemed to be emanating from
the head area of my GMC. I flushed my holding tank so many times, let
it sit full with enzymes in it and on and on and on to the point where I
knew it just couldn't be coming from there. I took off the toe strip
under the shower, following the experiences some of you have posted on
this digest, to check the drain. Dry as a bone, fittings are in
excellent shape as is the wood flooring. So I'm sitting in the middle
of the floor wondering where to go next and then I remembered getting a
call from the place I got my Suburban furnace from warning me that one
of the employees had left a burrito (half eaten) in my oven. I removed
it after that call but I was wondering if maybe he'd left something else
in there, so I checked. Nope! But man, that is where the smell was
coming from. A darn propane leak. I've never smelled one before (at
least not like this one). I traced it to another cracked flare nut.
This makes two I've found so far and both of them were on OEM supplied
appliances, which to me means they probably have never been messed with
by anyone.
I've rattled on with this story in hopes that this will serve as a
heads up to the rest of the folks here. My coach is a '76 if year of
manufacture is any clue.
BTW, the crack was on the stove side of the shut off valve. The other
cracked flare nut was on the furnace side of that shut off valve also.
And lastly, I don't know who it was that said that the mascerator was
the number one, all-time best addition to their coach, but he or she was
absolutely right!
HTH someone,
Steve F.
A while back there were several postings on "that odor". Three months
ago I started smelling something bad that seemed to be emanating from
the head area of my GMC. I flushed my holding tank so many times, let
it sit full with enzymes in it and on and on and on to the point where I
knew it just couldn't be coming from there. I took off the toe strip
under the shower, following the experiences some of you have posted on
this digest, to check the drain. Dry as a bone, fittings are in
excellent shape as is the wood flooring. So I'm sitting in the middle
of the floor wondering where to go next and then I remembered getting a
call from the place I got my Suburban furnace from warning me that one
of the employees had left a burrito (half eaten) in my oven. I removed
it after that call but I was wondering if maybe he'd left something else
in there, so I checked. Nope! But man, that is where the smell was
coming from. A darn propane leak. I've never smelled one before (at
least not like this one). I traced it to another cracked flare nut.
This makes two I've found so far and both of them were on OEM supplied
appliances, which to me means they probably have never been messed with
by anyone.
I've rattled on with this story in hopes that this will serve as a
heads up to the rest of the folks here. My coach is a '76 if year of
manufacture is any clue.
BTW, the crack was on the stove side of the shut off valve. The other
cracked flare nut was on the furnace side of that shut off valve also.
And lastly, I don't know who it was that said that the mascerator was
the number one, all-time best addition to their coach, but he or she was
absolutely right!
HTH someone,
Steve F.
