| Arrrrrrg! Friggin hot water heater replacement! [message #103391] |
Mon, 18 October 2010 12:55  |
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Well this weekend I decided to tackel the replacement of my water heater, well needless to say, its not as straight forward as "the bible" (GMC Tech Manual) makes it sound. Removal took a while since it didnt wanna squeeze around the toilet, so I took off the face plate of the old atwood heater and managed to get it around the toilet. finally it just made more sense to remove the toilet all together, an aqua magic recirculating model, and slide the unit out that way. the first thing I noticed was that monsters dont hide under the bed in these rigs, they hide under the toilet! hat I found there was an indescribable film of some kind of grossness, which has likely been there since30 or so years! Well back to the water heater, once out, I begin the process of repairing the support bracket behind the heater which had broken off the wall, allowing the full weight of the unit to rest solly on the wheel well, not good! I used 4 #14 lag screws to anchor the bracket to the support beam on the wall, and came up with a peg-leg support to handle the weight of the unit at midships to not have it resting on the wheel well like the old support, which had also cracked the wheel well, and there is now a 2x2 chunk missing from it.
After getting that all done I try to insert my new Kuuma force 10 and WTF its 1/8 too large to fit though the opening!!!  so after uttering some choice profanity, I decided to wrap it up for the night and tackel it today. so it looks like I gotta enlargen the opening in the bath module to fit the new heater in, anyone else have this problem with water heater replacement?
73 Canyon Lands, (a.k.a. The Yellow Submarine) West Los Angeles CA
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