At some point today I happened to be sitting in the passenger chair which was turned to face the table and glanced down at one of the dogs under it. I noticed a shaft a light coming from behind the facia in front of the seat belt mechanisms. Pulling the facia away I could see a small hole and the road below!
Both Jc and I had been suffering headaches and had smelt diesel exhaust whilst driving and put it down to the fact that as this is basically a truck the exhaust is quite close to the cab if you open a window. So within minutes I had Jc pointing a torch down the hole with me under it looking but to no avail. At one point all that could be seen in the main Aires car park in the centre of Albi were 2 sets of legs. In fact our motor home neighbours (also Burstner owners) were so concerned that they were standing above us when we emerged.
We agreed to try again when it was dark and I finally found the problem. Large flat metal sheets covered with some sort of ply I think ( probably for insulation) are seated and fixed onto the main metal frames. Any gaps are filled with mastic to make the van air proof. And they had missed a bit of mastic and oddly it was just above the exhaust outlet. So with a bit of tape and some extra filliing to make the facia fit better, we are now fume free and I will buy some filler once I have found the right word in french for B and Q,
Whilst looking for this I decided to check the gauge on the gas bottles. One is completely empty and the other completely full. I really don't believe it so I gave both gauges a tap and one just fell off. The thin plastic clips had broken off. Honestly, there is no quality control these days. And it means we need to fill up with gas as we don't trust the gauges.
After last time I am not looking forward to that.
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Location:Car park Aire at Albi
I remember years ago in Italy, with an oil leak on our Dennis Ambulance.
ReplyDeleteThe mechanics scattered in fright, so we used a waterproof sticking plaster - it worked a treat