Avoid RV Refrigerator Repairs By Not Placing Heavy Items in the Door
Dave SolbergDescription
One of the best things about owning an RV is being able to take your home everywhere you go while on vacation. RV refrigerators are a great and necessary accessory on your rig for storing and keeping your favorite foods cold. As you know, driving around in the RV can cause things to shift, especially when traveling along bumpy roads. This can cause things to move around in the refrigerator and might create a need for minor RV refrigerator repair work.
The best way to protect yourself from needing to conduct RV refrigerator repair is to not place heavy items in the door of the refrigerator. Placing heavy items on the door could cause the door to sag and eventually lead to the door not properly sealing when closed. This could affect the efficiency of the refrigerator, which could lead to more than just minor repair work.
If your refrigerator door is sagging, there are a few simple steps you can take to fix it and prevent any further RV refrigerator repair work from needing to be done. To start, take the door off and inspect the hinges. Check to see if any are damaged or bent beyond repair. If the hinges are metal, it might be possible to bend them back into place. For plastic hinges, a repair job might not be as easy. It might be necessary to replace them entirely or you might have to place a few washers to lift the refrigerator door back to its proper position.
To avoid having to do repair work, consider placing heavy items such as milk, water and condiment jars in the center of the refrigerator while driving. These items can be put back on the door for easy access once you have arrived at your destination.
Most people don't realize the abuse that some of these refrigerators take when they go down the road. They have a tendency to want to put all the handy, convenient items right here in the doorway. A lotta times you'll have bigger compartments here even. You can put milk, juice, gallons of water, because that's the stuff we get everyday, but that weight sitting on this door, as that unit goes down the road, you're gonna see, and we can see this one right here has got quite a bit of play in the top of it. And with that, when it starts to sag like this, then we don't get a good seal, coming out of the top of it. What we need to do is, make sure we move the stuff to the inside, put more of the weight on the racks themselves. And then when we get to the campground, we can put it in here. But now, what we're gonna do with this one, because it is a little bit lower here, we're gonna take the door off. Now some of these, like this one, they've got plastic hinges. As I pull this open, we see in here, so there's really not a lot of adjustment I can do with these plastic ones. Now if it was a metal hinge, I could actually take that off, maybe bend it back a little, a little bit. So we'll come over here, we'll get the bottom hinge. Okay, we got both those out. Now we basically just take this off, and you can see, down at the bottom here, in fact we've got a little bit of the actual washer that came out, so we could just get a little shim, that has the opening the size of this washer right here, prop that up a little bit, we may even have to get a new hinge on here. Now some of 'em will literally have a peg that the door sits down into, and I can put washers into that and just shim it up and get that so it doesn't sag quite as bit. But take a little bit of time, make sure you move the heavy items in while you're traveling and then your door won't sag.
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