Originally posted by Bill in Dayton:
Oh joy...
We have an Oilmaster Furnace, about 12 years old. We ran out of oil and had some delivered this morning. Fired up the furnace. The fan's blowing to beat the band but the pump that delivers the heating fuel to the actual ignitor doesn't not seem to be working.
There is a small green light blinking every half second which according to the label on this part of the pump means "lockout." I hit the reset button...nothing happened. I held the reset button and the motor kicked on for about 15 seconds then shut down again.
I now can't get it to respond to the reset button at all.
I've bled the lines coming from the fuel tank, there was some light black sediment but very quickly the fuel flowed nicely.
Ideas?
Please and thank you...
Bill hope you got you oil fired boiler working, I use to be a combustion engineer many years back, sometimes people think the oil runs out and the boiler stops and its not low oil there is a problem with the boiler, if it was no oil when you filled up sediment gets mixed up in the tank and if you try to fire up just after the tank as it is filled it can get into the filter and block it, most times it is air in the system but you must vent it at the burner fuel pump, right on top there is a vent, fit a rubber tube into a tin and let it pump out the air and keep letting the burner go to lockout a few times, then tighten the vent and it should run. Perhaps you already have it running. Some fuel pumps also have a sheer pin inside, this break off if the pump gets clogged up, the pump may appear to be working and turning but the impeller is not turning with the pin broken. Good luck is it very cold there Bill.
Tony
[This message has been edited by Tony Hughes (edited 02-12-2010).]
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