Stove vent rattle February 05, 2019, 12:31:23 pm So on our 2000 RB the overhead stove vent has a flap that blows open when the fan is turned on. This vent is our number 1 annoying noise going down the road, it seems it’s constantly opening and closing while in route and making a racket. Has anyone successful silenced it without jamming it with something?
Re: Stove vent rattle Reply #1 – February 05, 2019, 01:27:22 pm Quote from: Cor2man - February 05, 2019, 12:31:23 pmSo on our 2000 RB the overhead stove vent has a flap that blows open when the fan is turned on. This vent is our number 1 annoying noise going down the road, it seems it’s constantly opening and closing while in route and making a racket. Has anyone successful silenced it without jamming it with something?You can try adding some type of rubber or foam at the point of contact, it's just a flap of hinged sheet metal.Our LD eliminated the problems itself, the flap fell off a few years ago. We noticed no new noises or feel heat or cold entering through the open vent. Another choice is to secure it so it cannot move. The fan, IMO, is just about worthless, we end up using the bath Fantastic Fan to vent the stove area.Larry
Re: Stove vent rattle Reply #2 – February 06, 2019, 08:07:57 am I used some duct tape to go around the edges. the metal is nearly as thin as paper and hard to hold in place.Jon.....
Re: Stove vent rattle Reply #3 – February 06, 2019, 05:01:17 pm I'm grateful and happy that I found - thanks to this topic - the source of the most annoying rattling noise in my Lazy Daze. Since I have so far always been traveling alone I was not even able to locate it until now. I stopped many times at the roadside, walking back and forth through the rig, opening everything (but not the stove vent cover) and banging against all doors and walls and whatnots - nothing helped. Now I was just in the rig and moved that piece of metal lightly - that's it!I have not done anything about it yet. Is it easily possible to remove the vent, or is it better to try to do something through the vent blades?I have (only) one more quite annoying noise. It comes from somewhere above the driver seat, to the left, and sounds like squeaking styrofoam - really nasty. I could not find the exact location, but it's somewhere in that corner. There are no moving parts there - as if it would come from behind the wall, but I doubt that because it is not muffled at all. Does anybody have an idea where this could come from?Klaus
Re: Stove vent rattle Reply #4 – February 06, 2019, 05:25:16 pm Quote from: Klaus - February 06, 2019, 05:01:17 pmI have not done anything about it yet. Is it easily possible to remove the vent, or is it better to try to do something through the vent blades?I have (only) one more quite annoying noise. It comes from somewhere above the driver seat, to the left, and sounds like squeaking Styrofoam - really nasty. I could not find the exact location, but it's somewhere in that corner. There are no moving parts there - as if it would come from behind the wall, but I doubt that because it is not muffled at all. Does anybody have an idea where this could come from?If it occurs on rough roads and sound like it is just in back your head, to the left, it may be a broken connection between the metal cab and cabover. The same noise can occur on the right, passenger side.Pre-90 LD had this connection made with nuts and bolts, they occasionally loosen requiring pulling carpet back to access and tighten them.Later models, with the one-piece front cap, the connection is made with sheet metal screws. Bad roads causes twisting, between the chassis and the cab, sometimes more than what the screws can take, so they snap off.The fix is to drop the curtain track and then pull carpet back (removing dozens of staples) to expose the flange with the broken screws. Nothing can be done about the broken ones, the cure is to add new screws, more than what the Mothership provided.https://www.flickr.com/photos/lwade/sets/72157616624554265/with/3438856170/I repaired one LD with the screws broken the entire way around the top of the cab. On rough roads, it made a terrible racketLarry
Re: Stove vent rattle Reply #5 – February 06, 2019, 05:40:03 pm "...it may be a broken connection between the metal cab and cabover."Thanks. The strange thing is that this noise is not always there, and it can definitely also occur on smooth roads. But I anyway have to take down the curtain track to replace all the broken gliders (which I have not gotten yet) and will look at it then.Klaus
Re: Stove vent rattle Reply #6 – February 06, 2019, 10:08:42 pm Quote from: Klaus - February 06, 2019, 05:40:03 pm"...it may be a broken connection between the metal cab and cabover."Thanks. The strange thing is that this noise is not always there, and it can definitely also occur on smooth roads. But I anyway have to take down the curtain track to replace all the broken gliders (which I have not gotten yet) and will look at it then.That is the usual comment about this problem, it happens intermittently, needing a certain road surface to make the noise.If broken screws are the cause of the noise, it will only get worse with time, as more screws break.Larry
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