LP Gas Leak

In the area where I "think" I may smell gas is the furnace and above it is the LP refrigerator, I have soaked EACH AND EVERY fitting, valve, union, junction, coupling etc etc with warm soapy water bubbles and have not to get one bubble expandign or anything whatsoever. The only problem with the furnace is that the actual turn the gas on solenoid (its an electronic ignition type, NOT a pilot light type) is deep in the bowells of the furnace where I cant see or get to it. On the refrigerator, I can get to its turn on solenoid and it dont make any bubbles.

Sooooo o my questions are:

1) Any other tests besides warm soapy soap bubbles anyone can recommend????? (Guess I could go buy the regular spray the LP guys use)

2) Anyone had any experienc or problems with failure of the auto electric solenoids in the automatic elec ignition (NON pilot light) type furnaces??? I think I will shut off the needle valve type shut off to the furnace altogether once Im sure we dont need it (but my 80 yo mother may be going with us soon and she needs lots more heat than we ever would). However, if they dont leak I hate to ever screw them at all, but that would at least eliminate maybe a leaky internal solenoid !!!!! !!!!! !!

3) LP is heavier than air and would settle down right?????

I dont think its hazardous whatsoever or I wouldnt use it, and the safety LP Detector works, and Ive never really smelled it much if any (just that very very slight hint has me curious). I first noticed it last year and we used it extensively and it never got worse and usually I dont even detect it.

We may have to take a short trip to Kankakee Ill next week cuz my cousin (like a brother to me) may be undergoing heart by pass surgery is why Im curious about campers safety.

Im all ears, thanks gang n God Bless yall

John T Nordhoff

You and Clooney have helped so many people on this forum I almost feel guilty that I don't have a better answer! ;-)

If you just can't find it, you might take it by a local propane place. They have a little sniffer tool that can detect a leak that's too slow for soap bubble to show. You might call around first to make sure they have it. It's kinda' like what a/c guys use to sniff out Freon. If a propane place doesn't have it, maybe an RV place will have one.

I was plagued with the slight smell of that sutff inside my fifth wheel. I just knew it was there, especially when I pulled off the road after a run. My detector did go off occassionally.

One day it got terrible and I noticed the smell outside also.

So it was time to crawl underneath and start at the tanks and go from there. I found a bodatious leak where the feeder/main line from the tanks hit a place/manifold where three lines hook up to go inside to the appliances. One of the flare fittings was cracked at the flare.

Anyway, that just goes to prove that the leak could be outside and underneath but confined and show up inside as well.

That stuff you are using for leak detector should work fine.

Good Luck and don't fall in the Kankakee river, it looks so shallow that you may hit your (bleep bleep) on a rock.