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Originally Posted by Mike Lewis
I am preparing my trailer for a trip. I cannot get my stove to light or my fridge to run off propane. The regulator shows a red flag when I switch to a tank that I know is full. I assumed that the regulator had gone bad somehow so I replaced it. I'm getting the same result from the new regulator.
A few months ago I replaced both "pigtails" from the propane tanks to the regulator, but I don't remember if I tried it out afterward. Today I noticed that these short hoses seem to have a check valve in them. Is this the problem? If not, what else could be going on here?
Thanks.
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I had a similar intermittent problem during our last trip.
When we got home I could also not get propane flow through regulator.
Initially I found that the check valves in both pig tails would not open, I ended up removing hoses and blowing air through in reverse to unseat check valves.
After that I still had the most full propane tank would not flow propane to turn red flag to green.
What i found is that on that tank i had to hand tighten the hose to tank much tighter than you think you should have to and it works fine now.
I can only assume that valve in that tank is seated slightly lower than the other tank.
Hope this helps.