Have an ancient NG fired forced air furnace. Everything is fine, until I forget to pay my gas bill, and it's temoporarily shut off. Relighting the pilot is BITCH. It has a Honeywell Pilotstat valve, and a push button boost on the pilot tube. You have to hold the button gown on the Pilotstat, and push the boost button to light. The tube has a line of ports along it's length, which I assume should zip the flame from a match touched to the first one, into the burner to light the pilot. It refuses to do it. Just the first 4-5 holes light. I took the feed pipe off and blew the pilot tube out with compressed air, to no avail. Thoughts? JR
Cranky pilot tube in gas furnace
Mar 11, 2009
6 Replies
Scrub the tube with a nylon brush.
Sorry, all, didn't notice I was on alternate havoc.
Now there will be a chorous of voices telling the fool to open the phone book and call the repair guy. And a flood of posts calling me a hack.
Let the games begin!
See? It's started already. The natives are restless. Here is a typical Usenet poster:
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which looks a heck of a lot like me when I wake up.
Thoughts? Yup I have one. F*ck off.
Thanks. Now we know why girls won't talk to you. JR
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shut off. Relighting
Any residential furnace that still has a standing pilot is most likely long past due for replacement. The new ones don't have a pilot.. the are either spark or hot surface ignition.
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