Thetford 2118 Series Installation Manual - Manuel (Page 12)

Installation Manual 12
The doors are made to accept decorative panels. The decorative panels must be 3/16 inch or less in thickness. Install
the decorative door panels in the refrigerator doors before installing the refrigerator in the vehicle.
1. Make two upper door panels that are 17 1/4 inches wide x 23 1/8 inches high:
- Raised panels must be centered on each door and no larger than 16
1/2 inches wide x 22 3/8 inches high.
2. Make two lower door panels that are 17 1/4 inches wide x 42 5/16
inches high:
- Raised panels must be centered on each door and no larger than 16
1/2 inches wide x 41 9/16 inches high.
3. Install the decorative door panels:
- Pull the panel retainer [37] off of each door [39] (See Art01804).
- Push a decorative door panel [38] into the slots of each door.
Install Decorative Door Panels (non-metal door models)
Install an Air Defl ector (optional)
If the fl oor plan has the refrigerator on the rear wall of the vehicle, obey all of the vent installation as written in the “Install the Lower and
Upper Vents” section of this manual. Install the roof exhaust vent so that:
- The sloped end of the roof exhaust vent is toward either side
of the vehicle.
- The roof exhaust vent is perpendicular to the air fl ow over the
vehicle.
Install an air defl ector on the roof of the vehicle between the roof
exhaust vent and the front of the vehicle (See Art01767).
- Make sure that the air defl ector [175] is between the roof
exhaust vent [24] and the front of the vehicle [179].
- Make sure that the air defl ector is at least 3 1/2 inches high
[176].
- Make sure that the overall width [177] of the air defl ector is 32
7/8
- Make sure that the distance between the air defl ector and the roof exhaust vent is between 2 and 3 inches [178].
- Make sure that the horizontal top of the solid box baffl e is even with the bottom edge of the upper exhaust vent [24].
- Make sure that the vertical top edge of the solid box baffl e is 1/2 inch or less [170] below and 1/4 inch or less behind [15] the
lower rear corner of the condenser [11].
NOTICE
179
175
24
176
177
178
Art01767
39
38
37
Art01804