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Spent a whole day figuring out our truck's weird fridge drain clog

Our cold prep fridge on the truck started leaking water into the floor pan last Friday. I thought it was a quick fix, maybe a loose hose. Turned out to be a tiny piece of lettuce stem stuck way down in the drain tube. Took me and a buddy like 6 hours to find it because we had to pull the whole fridge unit out to see. Anyone else had a random food bit cause a huge mess like that?
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chen.james
chen.james1mo ago
Have you guys checked whether the drain itself is sloped right? Sometimes the tube isn't angled enough and stuff sits there long enough to form a clog.
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gray_park
gray_park3mo ago
My old food truck had the same thing happen with a single blueberry. It got stuck in the drain line and fermented, so the whole truck smelled like cheap wine for a week until we found it. The small stuff causes the worst problems because you never look there first. We started using a turkey baster with hot water to flush the line every Sunday night after that.
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the_shane
the_shane3mo ago
Yeah @gray_park, my buddy had a pickle do that.
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