redheadedhussy
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Does anyone know if you have to bleed the line with an oil furnace to restart it? I've hit the reset button, the motor will come on for a few minutes, then cuts off.
Does anyone know if you have to bleed the line with an oil furnace to restart it? I've hit the reset button, the motor will come on for a few minutes, then cuts off.
Does anyone know if you have to bleed the line with an oil furnace to restart it? I've hit the reset button, the motor will come on for a few minutes, then cuts off.
There is a bleeder valve on the pump of some models. I've never had to use mine though. The tech had to try about 6 times before all the air was out last time. Wait several minutes before retrying. You could also take off your filter and see if it has fuel in it.
Tough day to happen, but then there seems to be a lot of oil repair trucks out and about this morning.
Good luck.
Seems to be the way.... the number of oil burner failures is proportional to the decrease in temp. The colder and more miserable it is, the more furnaces seem to fail.
they never seem to fail in August
they never seem to fail in August
One of my oil burners sits well above the tank; if it runs out of oil (and it has a few times) then I have to use the bleeder and purge air to get the furnace to re-start. Every time.
The other one sits so that the fuel pump is below the level of oil in the tank and it self-primes OK.
Note also that not all systems are dual line and hence recirculating (which makes it easier to self-prime). If you have only a single line betwen your tank and your furnace, that setup almost always requires manual bleeding to get it to prime and start.
Running it out of fuel isn't good and you could have sucked up some garbage if you tried to fire the furnace up too soon after the refill. I suspect that you have trash in the filter or have a plugged nozzel. When was the unit last serviced?
It's due again. Annual preventive maintenance is a must with oil burners. Replace the filter and nozzle if you are a DIY type.Last year, January 2010.
Look at your pump and see how many copper lines run to it; 1 line= you must prime, 2 lines= it primes it self. If you let it sit for a little bit after you added fuel before you try to start it you should be ok to bleed it, if not then you might as well replace the nozzle. If it wont start and it is a 2 line system, you have more problems than just air