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John Padmore:
Digging deeper into the Beaver today I noticed the toilet was loose (moves side to side) and thought the hold down bolts must be loose. Well, after taking the cover off I realized the bolts are not loose. It seems the floor is moving when the toilet is rocked side to side. My guess is the floor is rotted under the mounting plate. Outside, the area is located just behind the storage bay where the power and water inlets are.

1. Does anyone know how to get access to the space directly under the toilet?
2. Has anyone had this problem and what was the fix?

Also, I fired up the aqua hot today. The Patriot supplement manual said there is a switch on the dash - never found one. I put the circuit breaker on at the main panel and turned the thermostat to 90 degrees and it came on. However there doesn't seem to be much air flow from the heating registers. There is barely any air movement. I have the fan switch on the thermostat set to high.

3. Is there a seperate fan switch located somewhere.

And, I put the water heater switch on - no light on the panel next to the switch and no hot water. I had the aqua hot running for about 1 hour before checking.

4. Do I have a bad heating elemment? How to check/change?

As always, thanks for the help.

John

Richard And Babs Ames:
You might be better off pulling the Tiolet to check the floor as access to the bottom of thr tiolet is behind the utilility hook ups if on the street side. If on the curb side there is an access panel behind the door in front of the batteries.

The breaker panel in the rear of our 97 has a separate breaker for the 18,000 btu heating element. Takes a while to heat up all that coolest on the element alone. I would wait at least 4 hours. If it is on diesel it takes about 30 minutes or less.

Richard And Babs Ames:
3. Fans work off the thermostat and you will not feel much air unless it is hot. You should hear the fans though.

John Padmore:
Richard, good suggestion about pulling the toilet. Here is what I found.
The floor seems to be in good shape. There is a typical flange that holds the toilet in place and leads down the hole to the tank (I presume). However, there seems to be some sort of a gasket of sorts between the flange and the floor. I cannot determine the integrity of it except that it seems to be soft (is it supposed to be?). I will try to post pictures of this and if anyone has a clue please let me know. Is there a way for me to talk to someone at "Beaver" who might know about the floor construction? I think I will need professional help with this one....Thanks, as always.

John

Steve Huber:
John,
The gasket is the flange seal. It is flexible, fits into the floor flange and provides a seal between the floor and the toilet. If the nuts are not tightened down, the toilet will rock back and forth so be sure they are tight. Best way to tell is to tighten them until you don't get any movement when sitting on the commode. From what you've said, you may just have nuts that have loosened.
Steve

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