Carver 3000 Heater Servicing.

[Ian21401]

My 1992 Bailey PageantCD Auvergne is fitted with a Carver 3000 heater. It has become difficult to light (it has a manual peizo spark igniter) and when eventually lit there is a yellowish tinge to the pilot light flame. I am not confident that it is now safe to use and would like to service it if possible. It appears that fully servicing the heater will not be possible without removing it from the 'van. I presume that if I entrusted this work to a caravan service centre, even if they would accept the job on such an old 'van, then it would have to be removed from the 'van with the obvious increase in expense etc. I have access to the installation instructions and assume that it will be possible to remove the heater from the 'van by reversal of those instructions.
Has anyone successfully done this before?
Does anyone know whether a service kit is available for this heater?
I would prefer to do the job myself with the assistance of a friendly gas engineer, or actually watch someone doing it, as when I entrusted my 'fridge service to a mobile service I didn't see what was done and the 'fridge was definitely not removed to access the back of it.

[MrTee]

I think you may struggle to get a service kit for the fire, Carver were taken over by Truma quite a few years ago. It may be possible to get a universal igniter and thermo coupling. From my limited experience with caravan heaters the biggest problem is insects that get into the jet, it normally means undoing the gas supply pipe from underneath the van and 4 screws that hold the heater in, It should be possible to gain access to the jet for cleaning. An hoover with a small nozzle will remove and muck thats built up. reassemble in reverse.

Mal

[Ian21401]

A mobile gas service technician has checked the heater in my presence at the storage site and given it a clean bill of health. The lighting instructions in the Carver installation, operation and fault finding instructions differ slightly from the instructions in the Bailey owner's manual. When following the Carver instructions the heater lit first time without any problem. For the information of anyone who may have problems with an older heater, a member of another forum has advised that a firm trading as "Arc Systems" in Nottingham is usually able to repair older heaters.