Propane guys ....

Lizooki

Lizooki

Samurai Frogger
Joined
Mar 21, 2005
Location
Stokes Co. NC
.... for camper stoves, not trail rigs.
I have a Coleman pop-up with an inside propane stove.
It's a very simple ( looking?) set-up.

Tank-2 piece regulator-lines-controls with small regulator- burners.

It ain't working. I open the valve and there is nothing at the burners.

Ideas? help? I'm in Walnut Cove.


Matt
 
Bueller?


Evnin' bump.

Matt
 
Can't run two regulators can you?
 
Yeah... did it come this way? The camper regulator should be dropping it down to like 1/2 psi or 1psi or something. I know that if you do the Weber Baby-Q conversion, you have to remove the built-in regulator in order to run it on the RV system. Otherwise it won't light.

Is anything else on the camper propane-powered? Does any of that work?
 
It came factory with the smaller regulator at the burners, and the regular big one at the tank.

The stove is the only propane appliance. It caused me grief last weekend .... couldn't fix the cheeseburger macaroni hamburger helper at the camp ground.

I NEED this fixed.

:rolleyes: Matt
 
Have you ever used the stove? How long since last time you used it?


---
- Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 
New ( to me) camper .... first time using it or the stove. PO only used camper once, never used the stove.
Tank was empty when I bought the camper, re-filled it while camping.
The stove really is spotless, looks like it has never been used.


Matt
 
It either has something like a spider or dirtdobber clogging the line, or the line has air in and needs to be bled.


---
- Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 
On my HD cart, I have a 20# tank and a regulator with two burners. I added a stainless grill and it also had a regulator, I had to buy a T fittig that screws into the tank, then the original regulator screws into that. This separates the two regs from each other. Trust me this was not cheap! But it is the only way it would work. I couldn't run two regs in line.
 
The second regulator is very small and right at the burners, It supposedly goes from the typical 11.5 water column inches to around 10". Supposed to be the peak operating pressure for these stoves.

Thru the magic of the internet and bootyfab, I have concluded the normal regulator is working right ...... and there is still nothing at the stove ( checked before the small regulator ).
So I'm assuming it's either stopped up or crimped.

Time to crawl around under it.

I'm gittin' to old and fat for this.


Matt
 
Since we have this nice cool weather ... :rolleyes: ... I got out this morning and re-checked the everything.
Blew the lines out with compressed air with someone watching to see if anything came out ..... nothing did, but there was air coming out. Hooked it up and had enuff propane flowing to at least smell it.

PROGRESS!

Followed the lines and checked all connections ..... hidden deep in the cabinets on the inside there is a section of rubber hose that enables the cabinet to fold over. Couldn't see it ( didn't do it really ) when folded down, but when raised up, the rubber line was kinking in a spot that was almost impossible to get to.
A small hose clamp to keep it from kinking is a quick temporary fix, the long term fix will most likely be a new, slightly longer hose.

FIXED!

Matt
 
Back
Top