Before we could or should cut the new hole in the trailer, we did some dry fitting of the old cover to the new heater. This was to get the dimensions for the new appliance- which was the combination of the old cover and the new heater. There was a lot of fiddling in this [...]
I dissassembled the Bowen heater so that we could mate the front cover and flange to the Atwood. Essentially, putting it’s best face forward. First I removed flange surround from the tank. The dimensions of both heaters (below) is pretty close, the Bowen being slightly shorter and wider than the Atwood. The Atwood was still [...]
This was actually simpler than I had envisioned. The water heater consists of the control/heating part and the tank. On the old Bowen, the pilot and controls etc are on the outside of the trailer, while the tank is on the inside. The water heater, as a unit, sticks through a hole in the side [...]
