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11-06-2019, 01:40 PM
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#41
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Arvada, Colorado
Trailer: 2015 E'21 - 'Velocity'. Tow: Toyota Tacoma V6, 4X4, manual.
Posts: 1,692
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Murphy's Law supplemental. If you carry a spare part, the original won't fail.
We bought a spare sail switch early on and the original has never failed. But on the other hand, after a particularly nasty stretch of washboard dirt road ALL the welds in the furnace fractured and the motor & fan blades fell out. That's where I got my lesson in pulling out the furnace. (Replaced the welds with through bolts.) No issues since...
But to offset our luck with the furnace, the fridge has given me more headaches than I can count.
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Alan
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11-09-2019, 05:27 PM
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#42
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2018
Location: Austin, Texas
Trailer: 2019 5.0TA "Junior", 2019 Ram 1500 5.7 Hemi
Posts: 1,600
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cpaharley2008
Keep us in the loop there Dave, thanks...
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Well, I went over to the trailer today with the new sail switch bracket. I can not see any way that this bracket fits - there must be another low flow furnace model, or perhaps it has been redesigned and this is the bracket for the new one. The sail switch is identical, so now I have another spare, but the updated bracket does not appear to work on my furnace. If anyone else gets one of the new brackets and finds a way to mount it (no instructions or diagram provided) please post pics.
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David, Mary, and the cats
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11-20-2019, 10:22 PM
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#43
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Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Nanaimo, British Columbia
Trailer: 2014 17B
Posts: 15
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Fixed - thanks
Quote:
Originally Posted by rubicon327
Are you using the stock Atwood replacement board? No idea if this would help, but just throwing out there that if I was having circuit board problems I would consider the compatible board made by Dinosaur Electronics.
https://pdxrvwholesale.com/products/...ard-fan50pp%20
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I tracked down a version of the original circuit board, took the furnace out and cleaned and tested all the components, reinstalled and, joy, it works. Thanks for the hint Rubicon.
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2014 17 B replacing 2005 17 B
2009 Nissan Frontier
1968 Boler (original w flat top)
Vancouver Island - Nanaimo, BC
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11-21-2019, 01:20 AM
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#44
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2018
Location: North of Edmonton, Alberta
Trailer: 2018 -21-picked up in May 2019 / 2018 F 150 5.0
Posts: 254
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$$$
Quote:
Originally Posted by steve dunham
We had the same experience with our Casita furnace
“ ZERO ISSUES IN OVER 6 YEARS” and actually large enough to heat the trailer ( 16,000 BTU ) in the Spring and Fall camping seasons
Our Escape furnace has failed twice in a little over a year
( Defective circuit board , sail switch , leaky outside vent )
Our Casita also came ( Standard equipment ) with a heat strip in the A/C and it worked well
Why a $20K trailer built in texas comes with a backup heat system ( heat strip) that works and a $40K trailer built in Canada comes with an unreliable furnace and no backup still amazes me
I hope that someday Escape will come out with a true 3 season trailer.
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$20K for a Casita sounds like a pretty good price.
On the other hand, if you paid $40K US for an Escape, like we say in Canada," you got hosed".
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11-21-2019, 07:29 AM
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#45
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: North of Danbury, Wisconsin
Trailer: 2018 Escape 21C
Posts: 3,033
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Quote:
Originally Posted by yangstyle
$20K for a Casita sounds like a pretty good price.
On the other hand, if you paid $40K US for an Escape, like we say in Canada," you got hosed".
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I apologize that the subject / intent of my post was not perfectly clear / obvious !!
I will attempt to be more precise and less nuanced in the future .
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12-11-2019, 09:48 PM
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#46
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2017
Location: Seattle, Washington
Trailer: 2018 17A
Posts: 149
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Get the dang furnace back in!!!
Help! Atwood furnace in 17A, was working intermittently. Thanks to the nice ETI video, I got it out, cleaned the lint off the sail switch, cleaned off the fan blades. Now I can't get the furnace back in. The problem seems to be in aligning the external exhaust tube with the inside of the furnace. I've tried mirrors, a little borescope, basically can't see back there. I'm about to pull the external flange off, but would rather not. Any suggestions? Please?
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12-11-2019, 10:11 PM
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#47
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Site Team
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Portland, Oregon
Trailer: 2014 Escape 5.0 TA
Posts: 11,040
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It pretty much takes two people. One on the outside, pushing against the exhaust tube area while someone is on the inside aligning the tube.
On edit... that's for the classics! I didn't know the 2nd gen trailers needed to pull the furnace to clean the sail switch...
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Donna D.
Ten Forward
2014 Escape 5.0TA
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12-11-2019, 10:23 PM
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#48
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2017
Location: Seattle, Washington
Trailer: 2018 17A
Posts: 149
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Tried two people. If the tubes aren't aligned, no go! Should I be afraid of resealing the external cover?
I guess now the furnaces are external access? Not us; ours is early 2018. Sure would be nice to have the external hatch.
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12-12-2019, 12:31 AM
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#49
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Site Team
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Mid Left Coast, California
Trailer: 2014 Escape 21
Posts: 5,152
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on my 21, I was able to reach the exhaust pipe on the inside and feel how it went on the exhaust port, manipulate it with one hand while the other hand and my knee pushed hte furnace in. it took someone else on the outside holding the exterior exhaust port firmly against thee trailer to fully seat things without breaking the sealant around the exterior flange.
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12-12-2019, 06:42 AM
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#50
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Central, Pennsylvania
Trailer: Escape#5 2022 E19
Posts: 26,268
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Worse comes to worse, remove and reseal the exterior connection,,,,this is a typical "Gumption trap" from Robert Pirsig's "Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance" scenario, the tiniest obstruction gums up the whole process.
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Jim
Sometime life gets in the way of living.......
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12-12-2019, 07:17 AM
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#51
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Janesville, WI, Wisconsin
Trailer: Escape 19 (sold) Escape 21 2014
Posts: 1,882
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Before you put the furnace back into the trailer check the floor of the unit for any protruding screws or wood blocks. Mine had a screw that really made removal hard, not sure just how they got the screw where it was.
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Paul and Janet Braun
2003 Toyota 4Runner V8 now 2012 Toyota Sequoia V8
Escape 19' 2010 now 2014 Escape 21'
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