Urgent!!

not sure about the noise, but yes to the smoke. I just had mine cleaned. I took it in to the shop. Cost $ 300
 
Jonathan Ellis said:
not sure about the noise, but yes to the smoke. I just had mine cleaned. I took it in to the shop. Cost $ 300
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WOW, $300.00 to fix the smoke problem. This is something that you should learn how to do, along with basic repairs of pumps, engine, and Burner trouble shooting.

When your in the middle of nowhere and things go wrong you will wish you knew how to repair these things yourself. If not just for the know how but for the money they charge for repairs.

Alot of the time when you are getting smoke and intermitting flame, it is just dirty probes and or fuel tips. Alot of time the insulation is the culprit of this, as the machine gets older and it starts to break down in there. You can pull the whole assembly out in 10min and clean it off with parts cleaner and put it back and fire it up.
 
Nick

... I, for one, need to learn more about troubleshooting and fixing things - it has just never been my thing. I'm learning now... SLOWLY!! haha :to_pick_ones_nose:

I cleaned the probes on saturday and cleaned the soot off the ceramic parts and the flame is burning good. I took the fuel nozzle out and cleaned it... spray seems to be good.

I'm clueless as to what the 'grumble' noise and flames are about though... diesel soaked on the insulation, soot on the coil... ??? I had to shut down last night because I didn't want to cause any damage, the noise sounded ominous!!
 
Steven Button said:
Nick

... I, for one, need to learn more about troubleshooting and fixing things - it has just never been my thing. I'm learning now... SLOWLY!! haha :to_pick_ones_nose:

I cleaned the probes on saturday and cleaned the soot off the ceramic parts and the flame is burning good. I took the fuel nozzle out and cleaned it... spray seems to be good.

I'm clueless as to what the 'grumble' noise and flames are about though... diesel soaked on the insulation, soot on the coil... ??? I had to shut down last night because I didn't want to cause any damage, the noise sounded ominous!!
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That sounds like you could have a bad igniter, it's letting in alot of fuel into the chamber and not igniting it. Then when it finally ignites you get a large flame out the top of the stack. Without seeing it up close it's hard to determine exactly what the problem is, but if I had to guess sounds like a igniter problem or not enough volts going to the igniter to light it each time.
 
Insulation fallen in the way is my guess. Take the 'lid' off and have a look. Just a few bolts and you're there.
 
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