1998 Liberty Hot Water Heater

I recently purchased a 1998 Liberty Coach and I need to find a water heater for replacement on the coach. Any help out there?

Welcome Rich.

You have asked an uncommon question to some degree. First what is it, a Raritan?

What actually failed. Does it leak? It will no longer heat the water? Unless someone left it full of water to freeze they are usually repairable.

Hey Rich,

This will get you started.......

http://www.raritaneng.com/products/w...ers/index.html

It is probable you can get a duplicate of the tank you have.

I have done work in the water bay on my 97 Liberty as well as on my 87 Liberty. If I had to replace the HW heater I would probably pull the water holding tank so I could sit in the bay and have plenty of room to work. I pulled the tank on my 87 which had a very similar set up to my current coach and it was actually easy. Obviously there are a lot of things to remove or disassemble to do that, but if you have a good place to work on the coach it should pose no problem.

I slid the tank out and then used a typical floor jack, with the tank balanced on it to pull it out the rest of the way so I had pushing and shoving to do, but no lifting.

Richard,

Welcome aboard, keep us posted on your water heater, I want to do mine also.

Well, for information, the hot water heater is $1100.00 and installation by Prevost is $900. I've owned the coach for about 7 months and it must have frozen last winter before I purchased it. It was a small leak but annoying and as it turned out the tank was cracked. I now have hot water and I'm happy!:)

Wow, you spent $2000 to heat hot water and now you are happy?

I can see spending the money to heat cold water.....

I think he's more happy to be rid of the leak.

WE discovered our hotwater heaters are in the West Marine catalog for a fraction what Marathon charges for them. :eek: Friends of ours just replaced their pair for $1400 for the parts, and $300.00 for labor at our local Airstream dealer last summer. It was basic plug and play after Marathon shipped them.

Raritan Engineering (856-825-4900). I think that I paid $550.00 plus shipping for a 20 gal, 120v with heat exchanger. Its the 1700 series. The labor was much easier than I expected. Took about 3 hours for me. Should take less time for someone that knows what they are doing.