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Anon Deleted Posts : Location : Status : Offline |
Bedford CF2 Motorhome water heater tank Soryr if I am long winded. And no idea if this is the right place to post this.Bare with me, this is my first post here. No idea if anyone can help as this Bedford CF2 is a motor home and not directly a CF question, but ....The van has an old Bowen Water Heater G6A-3 . Now apparently taken over by Atwood. Seems to be an American make. Do not even know if it works yet. Have got the pilot to light and very breifly the juts to the heater, but not yet the heater to stay on. Hubby thinks the valve needs taking apart and cleaning. He can do this or the heater itself can be replaced by a modern Atwood one , that fits into the same gap apparently?? Expensive so we have to see if we can fix it or we just go with cold water, boiling hot water on the hob and no showers LOL!. We can probably go with this, boiled many a kettle in my time on a hob and in the meantime try to fix the water heater or go to the expense of buying a new one. So this is not currently my question. But it seems the hot water tank for it is leaking. Which does matter. As this tank is automatically filed whenever the water pump is on. So it gradually leaks all the water from the plastic water tank out and through the compartment holding it, over the chassis and over the wheel arch. So for now we have either to reroute the water so it does not go into the hot water tank at all, just to the cold or find a way to fix the tank. It seems to be steel and he thinks it can be fixed by brazing? But he is not sure. So before he takes it out and tries he wanted to know if anyone knows if they can be fixed. or if a replacement can be bought, and from where? Thanks ---------------------- |
 Thu 27 Jul 2017 @ 20:48
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Anon Deleted Posts : Location : Status : Offline |
Water heater. Hi,When I bought my old CF2 it had an antiquated water heater which leaked and did not work so I replaced it with one from a caravan breakers it cost my £50.00 and works well, and it fitted in the same space the old one came out of. doujoy ---------------------- |
Fri 28 Jul 2017 @ 08:37
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Anon Deleted Posts : Location : Status : Offline |
Thanks Joyce I had not thought you could get them there? However was that the sort of water heater that goes on the wall, we have got one like that we took out of our old challenger caravan and is now in our summer house We know we can get one like that from a breakers. Or one like ours, a Bowen or Atwood, built into the side and with the hot water tank under the seat? Which we did not think a caravan breakers would have as they are American/Canadian and mostly fitted into Airstreams and American living trailers it seems? As due to the built in oven and grill over the sink and other built in stuff on the wall anywhere near the sink there is no room to put one that goes on the wall. We could take stuff down and will if we have to. But was first trying to get one like what is already in there or make the old one work. We have had some success as now have brazed the tank and taken apart the valve to recondition it. But a new/second hand one that works maybe needed as not sure we can get this one to work and we may need spares I will try to post a pic or two of the heater, tank and the hole it fits into once I have figured out how. It looks like you cannot upload them but only give a link and apart form icloud I do not have any of the images online . Veritee xxx
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Sun 30 Jul 2017 @ 08:33
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bluebedouin Global Moderator Posts : 2444 Location : Northampton,England. Status : Offline 
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Welcome to cf-uk,I see you managed to upload the pics okay. 
A quick google has thrown up a pdf of what appears to be the same model.It might help in solving any problems. I'll keep looking to see if I can find a replacement but it will probably be a case of employing Messrs Bodgitt & Scarper. 
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Sun 30 Jul 2017 @ 13:30
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bluebedouin Global Moderator Posts : 2444 Location : Northampton,England. Status : Offline
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Apart from the ones available from the states (silly money) I'm afraid I can't come up with anything as a direct replacement. If you can't get it going properly you could always find a smaller make/model & fit it with a modified section to fill the gap. |
Sun 30 Jul 2017 @ 16:59
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bluebedouin Global Moderator Posts : 2444 Location : Northampton,England. Status : Offline
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veritee wrote: .....no showers LOL!..... ... due to the built in oven and grill over the sink and other built in stuff on the wall anywhere near the sink there is no room to put one that goes on the wall. We could take stuff down and will if we have to. Presumably you have a shower room/toilet cubicle?If so you could get a wall heater to fit into there & replumb the system using a diverter tap as in the diagram. 
There are some brand new wall mounted on greedbay.351724218428
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Sun 30 Jul 2017 @ 17:41
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Colin Birch Admin Posts : 4273 Location : Pontypridd, South Wales Status : Offline 
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That looks like the same heater that was in my Pioneer. I seem to remember I had problems when I first had it and it was down to a sticking valve not allowing the burner to run. Check the valve and make sure the thermocouple is okay. You should get the gas system checked out by a qualified gas safe engineer. My heater also had a connection to the CF radiator pipes which warmed the water in the tank as you were traveling. Meant you always had a tank of hot water when you arrived on site. ---------------------- |
Sun 30 Jul 2017 @ 22:23
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