Originally Posted by
greenhorn0311
Arc'd out the transformer & seemed fine, strong arc.
So I pulled out the burner housing and hooked it up to the soft copper feed line outside of furnace and in a bucket. Not a drop of oil out of nozzle, weird thing is I started at the nozzle and worked my way all the way to the pump and I could blow air through every piece just using my mouth
When I got down to the pump it wouldn't even piss out the 90 elbow that the soft copper feeds out of. So I took the entire front of the pump off, all the way to the motor shaft that's key wayed. Then I broke that down as it splits and there's a gasket. Other than the gasket being pretty beat up I didn't see much out of the norm. Since its 11pm I was careful with the gasket and made it work until I can grab a new one.
Bolted everything back and she fired right up......I'm baffled. I really don't think I had air in line because I held that bleeder open and it stayed ... Hate not knowing but figured I'd ask for any second opinions.
The original problem was the pump would come on during a call for heat but would time out with no ignition...then eventually locked out the furnace.
I'm in school for HVAC/R and have completed refrigeration and gas heat....so getting knee deep in my oil furnace was a ' learn as you go' for me tonight....just wish I knew what was up.