This one has me stumped.
I've had an issue with my propane system for awhile and i've put off fixing it as i've had more important issues to contend with. Now that life has slowed down I decided I wanted to fix the issue i'm having with my trailer.
Issue.
My trailer is set up with two 7 gallon propane tanks(one on each side of the trailer). The main tank is on the left side of the trailer and has the valve to switch between the two tanks. When the main tank would run empty I would throw the switch to the reserve tank and nothing would happen. The switch didn't feel like it was engaging anything so I thought the switch was bad. I ordered a new one off of Amazon and installed it a few weeks ago. The other morning when I woke up I noticed the furnace wasn't running and figured I had ran out of propane so I went out and switched to the reserve. Went back in the trailer and no gas going to the trailer. So I manually swapped the tanks and went about my business. I went down to the store and picked up a new pressure regulator for the reserve tank side thinking that it may have froze shut. I've had this happen to a gas grill I had years ago. I went to the RV parts store and picked up the regulator and came back to the trailer and started taking everything apart. The old regulator started leaking an oily stinky mess out of it. I took it off and then went to the other side of the trailer and unhooked the line from the valve there and went back and blew the line out with my air compressor. I did not see any oil or debris coming out of the line and I had good air flow so I went ahead and hooked everything up.
When I turned on the gas at the reserve tank and switched to the reserve line I again had no gas going into the trailer. I replaced the feed line from the tank to the regulator thinking maybe it was bad. Still nothing.
This has me scratching my head as I am not sure what could be going on.
Anyone have any advice? Am I doing something wrong?
I've had an issue with my propane system for awhile and i've put off fixing it as i've had more important issues to contend with. Now that life has slowed down I decided I wanted to fix the issue i'm having with my trailer.
Issue.
My trailer is set up with two 7 gallon propane tanks(one on each side of the trailer). The main tank is on the left side of the trailer and has the valve to switch between the two tanks. When the main tank would run empty I would throw the switch to the reserve tank and nothing would happen. The switch didn't feel like it was engaging anything so I thought the switch was bad. I ordered a new one off of Amazon and installed it a few weeks ago. The other morning when I woke up I noticed the furnace wasn't running and figured I had ran out of propane so I went out and switched to the reserve. Went back in the trailer and no gas going to the trailer. So I manually swapped the tanks and went about my business. I went down to the store and picked up a new pressure regulator for the reserve tank side thinking that it may have froze shut. I've had this happen to a gas grill I had years ago. I went to the RV parts store and picked up the regulator and came back to the trailer and started taking everything apart. The old regulator started leaking an oily stinky mess out of it. I took it off and then went to the other side of the trailer and unhooked the line from the valve there and went back and blew the line out with my air compressor. I did not see any oil or debris coming out of the line and I had good air flow so I went ahead and hooked everything up.
When I turned on the gas at the reserve tank and switched to the reserve line I again had no gas going into the trailer. I replaced the feed line from the tank to the regulator thinking maybe it was bad. Still nothing.
This has me scratching my head as I am not sure what could be going on.
Anyone have any advice? Am I doing something wrong?