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My experience with water heater removal was a bit
different than Pete's. Without taking out part of the fiberglass endcap in the
bathroom (which I did not want to do) I could not get to the rivets holding the
aluminum strips on the inside coach wall enclosing the water heater. The Bowen
style water heater is in front of them and blocks access.
Consequently, I took out the old heater from the
outside by making a diagonal cut into the top corners of the aluminum strips
from the outside which lets the water heater squeeze through with some
effort by bending the aluminum strips toward the outside as the water heater
comes through. After the old heater was out, I straightened the aluminum strips
and then installed the 6 gal Atwood from the outside.
I used the original Bowen three-piece heater door
to maintain the original look and avoided patching the trailer skin to fill in
to fit the smaller current water heaters cut out.
Jim Greene
' 68 Tradewind
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