{"id":1432,"date":"2008-07-01T10:40:53","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T15:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2008\/07\/01\/water-heater-woes\/"},"modified":"2008-07-01T10:40:53","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T15:40:53","slug":"water-heater-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2008\/07\/01\/water-heater-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"water heater woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, if you&#8217;ve been paying attention to <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ghing\/waterheater\">my del.icio.us feed<\/a>, you&#8217;ll see I&#8217;ve been struggling to repair a water heater that had been partially submerged in the recent flooding:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/beyondmeresurvival.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/06\/dsc01066.jpg?w=300&amp;h=225\" alt=\"Submerged Waterheater\" height=\"225\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tristan recommended replacing the thermocouple as it is a frequent point of failure for gas furnaces and water heaters and is relatively cheap and easy to replace.\u00c2\u00a0 I eventually got the manifold assembly removed and had access to the thermocouple.\u00c2\u00a0 A little water spilled out, so I figured that messing with this was probably a good idea.\u00c2\u00a0 I went to get a replacement thermocouple, but neither of the two hardware stores had a left-hand threaded thermocouple.\u00c2\u00a0 Eventually, I was directed to a plumbing supply company who told me that only Whirlpool made those parts and that replacements weren&#8217;t generally available and that there was a class action lawsuit about this.<\/p>\n<p>I finally went to Lowes and apparently they have some replacement kits (but not for sale, you have to let them know the serial # of the water heater).\u00c2\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t have time to pursue this further, but hopefully I can get the part from Lowes and have hot water.<\/p>\n<p>I also found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whirlpoolwaterheaters.com\/support\/bulletins\/6510338.pdf\">theremocouple<\/a> replacement instructions for replacing the thermocouple on Whirlpool&#8217;s support site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, if you&#8217;ve been paying attention to my del.icio.us feed, you&#8217;ll see I&#8217;ve been struggling to repair a water heater that had been partially submerged in the recent flooding: Tristan recommended replacing the thermocouple as it is a frequent point of failure for gas furnaces and water heaters and is relatively cheap and easy to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2008\/07\/01\/water-heater-woes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">water heater woes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[551,549,548,547,550],"class_list":["post-1432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-baddesign","tag-consumer","tag-flood","tag-waterheater","tag-whirlpool","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wnIz-n6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}