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Welcome Center / Re: Hello from North Dakota
« on: January 15, 2019, 08:37:10 am »
Hey guys, thanks for the response! Most of my oil comes from local farmers. i jumped into the game with this late where everyone around the area already had most of the sources spoken for. I am lucky to be friends with some of the local farmers that are willing to give up the oil to me. I made a little cart and found an old pto pump from a tractor i believe. i run that off of an old snow blower engine i had laying around. I have had some issues pumping cold oil in the past but i think i have found my problem. when its super cold out the garbage cam lock fittings i have are sucking air i believe. i am going to make every connection a solid threaded fitting and hope to solve that problem.
Duane,
last time the burner has been rebuild was "never" ha ha! i know the guy before me had never done any maintenance on the heater and i have been slowly getting things running. when it runs well, it runs well. when it wants to be a POS it sure can be! ha ha! about 2 weeks ago i pulled the burner gun out of it. i was not getting much of a flame. my oil pressure was way up at around 19 psi and i would always run it down at around 9 or 10. i knew something was restricted. pulled the nozzle and the nozzle holder out and cleaned all of that out good. i ran a brush with brake clean down through the oil passage and cleaned that out good. then i pulled the oil solenoid off and the valve. cleaned that out and i couldn't get hardly any fluid through the line coming into where the valve was. i put some air to it and a chunk of crap flew out. after i got that cleaned out really well i reassembled and it was working great again! Now i am having issues with the 90VDC motor that runs the pump. brushes are bad so i ordered new brushes today. This is all after i just put new bearings in it last week. I love the free heat but boy this thing can make a guy pull his hair out. Sometimes i feel like the dad on "A Christmas Story".
I believe once i get the new brushes in this motor i will be up and running good again! I love that i found this forum and have a resource now to come to when it decides to make me lose my mind again.
What is all involved in a burner rebuild?
Thanks!
Tim
Duane,
last time the burner has been rebuild was "never" ha ha! i know the guy before me had never done any maintenance on the heater and i have been slowly getting things running. when it runs well, it runs well. when it wants to be a POS it sure can be! ha ha! about 2 weeks ago i pulled the burner gun out of it. i was not getting much of a flame. my oil pressure was way up at around 19 psi and i would always run it down at around 9 or 10. i knew something was restricted. pulled the nozzle and the nozzle holder out and cleaned all of that out good. i ran a brush with brake clean down through the oil passage and cleaned that out good. then i pulled the oil solenoid off and the valve. cleaned that out and i couldn't get hardly any fluid through the line coming into where the valve was. i put some air to it and a chunk of crap flew out. after i got that cleaned out really well i reassembled and it was working great again! Now i am having issues with the 90VDC motor that runs the pump. brushes are bad so i ordered new brushes today. This is all after i just put new bearings in it last week. I love the free heat but boy this thing can make a guy pull his hair out. Sometimes i feel like the dad on "A Christmas Story".
I believe once i get the new brushes in this motor i will be up and running good again! I love that i found this forum and have a resource now to come to when it decides to make me lose my mind again.
What is all involved in a burner rebuild?
Thanks!
Tim