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| Author: | Brick [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 6:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | My furnace! |
Start heating my house you jerk! |
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| Author: | Don Tiny [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 6:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My furnace! |
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| Author: | Chus [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 6:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My furnace! |
Boilermaker Rick wrote: Start heating my house you jerk! If it is relatively new, the mother board should display a series of blinking lights to tell you what is wrong with it. |
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| Author: | Baby McNown [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 6:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My furnace! |
Boilermaker Rick wrote: Start heating my house you jerk! Thanks Obama! |
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| Author: | Brick [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 6:16 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My furnace! |
Chus wrote: Boilermaker Rick wrote: Start heating my house you jerk! If it is relatively new, the mother board should display a series of blinking lights to tell you what is wrong with it. It starts the fire and goes for about 3 seconds and then clicks and shuts off. I assume it is a bad sensor. It may be a dirty sensor. I'm about to pay $149 to find out! |
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| Author: | Chus [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 6:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My furnace! |
It might be a limit switch. |
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| Author: | Darkside [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 6:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My furnace! |
If it shuts off after 3 seconds, it's almost certainly the flame sensor,n assuming it's not a standing pilot ignition... There's a little metal rod there, in the path of the flames... should be screwed in most likely with a 1/4 in. screw... you can pull it out, scrub it with a scotch brite. Reconnect, retry. |
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| Author: | Douchebag [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 6:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My furnace! |
My guy says buy a tankless system. |
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| Author: | Don Tiny [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 6:27 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My furnace! |
Douchebag wrote: My guy says buy a tankless system.  ... took long enough ... |
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| Author: | jimmypasta [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 6:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My furnace! |
Darkside wrote: If it shuts off after 3 seconds, it's almost certainly the flame sensor,n assuming it's not a standing pilot ignition... There's a little metal rod there, in the path of the flames... should be screwed in most likely with a 1/4 in. screw... you can pull it out, scrub it with a scotch brite. Reconnect, retry. Secret DS message! |
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| Author: | Brick [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 6:32 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My furnace! |
Darkside wrote: If it shuts off after 3 seconds, it's almost certainly the flame sensor,n assuming it's not a standing pilot ignition... There's a little metal rod there, in the path of the flames... should be screwed in most likely with a 1/4 in. screw... you can pull it out, scrub it with a scotch brite. Reconnect, retry. So I looked into it more. It doesn't have a pilot light. It has an ignition system. It's this little box with a panel I can screw off. Sounds like a job for the professionals. It is old. It's definitely from the 90s. |
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| Author: | Brick [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 6:41 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My furnace! |
It will be moot in a little bit, but here is what it looks like: 
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| Author: | 312player [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 6:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My furnace! |
What shuts off after a few seconds? The blower? Flame? Gas valve? All? |
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| Author: | Colonel Angus [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 7:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My furnace! |
Boilermaker Rick wrote: Darkside wrote: If it shuts off after 3 seconds, it's almost certainly the flame sensor,n assuming it's not a standing pilot ignition... There's a little metal rod there, in the path of the flames... should be screwed in most likely with a 1/4 in. screw... you can pull it out, scrub it with a scotch brite. Reconnect, retry. So I looked into it more. It doesn't have a pilot light. It has an ignition system. It's this little box with a panel I can screw off. Sounds like a job for the professionals. It is old. It's definitely from the 90s. 90s? OLD? Fuck me.  You'll probably need a new one. Or, just have Darko stop by & fix it for you. I'm sure he hasn't anything better to do. |
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| Author: | Brick [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 7:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My furnace! |
312player wrote: What shuts off after a few seconds? The blower? Flame? Gas valve? All? The flame goes down the pipe and shoots out and then it stops like it shut itself off.
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| Author: | Colonel Angus [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 7:07 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My furnace! |
If the gas valve was broke, it wouldn't stop running. |
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| Author: | bigfan [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 7:35 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My furnace! |
New house |
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| Author: | rogers park bryan [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 8:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My furnace! |
Put on your Snuggie |
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| Author: | Don Tiny [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 8:06 pm ] |
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| Author: | Killer V [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 8:19 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My furnace! |
Needs more coal... |
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| Author: | crosscheck [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 8:37 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My furnace! |
Go with darko, clean the little metal rod off with some steel wool, you should be good. |
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| Author: | Brick [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 9:26 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My furnace! |
bigfan wrote: New house New furnace.Crack in the heat exchanger. Needs to be replaced. Ended up choosing to do the heater and the air conditioning at the same time. The units are from 1989 so it's probably time. He did go after the little metal rod and then said "That's not good" when he saw what it was doing. Thanks for all your help. Ironically, my response to someone who created a thread like this would have been "Get a new furnace" which ended up the correct answer. |
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| Author: | Rod [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 9:39 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My furnace! |
Am I the only one who sees the irony of a guy named Boilermaker Rick having furnace trouble? |
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| Author: | doug - evergreen park [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 10:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My furnace! |
Yeah, its like that time my buddy Colonfucker Bruce got prostate cancer....weird. |
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| Author: | sjboyd0137 [ Tue Jan 29, 2013 12:12 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My furnace! |
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote: Am I the only one who sees the irony of a guy named Boilermaker Rick having furnace trouble? To be fair, have you watched Purdue football? I think they all have furnace trouble. |
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| Author: | 24_Guy [ Tue Jan 29, 2013 12:25 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My furnace! |
I've just ordered the last boilers lit! 
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| Author: | jimmypasta [ Tue Jan 29, 2013 12:47 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My furnace! |
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| Author: | Brick [ Tue Jan 29, 2013 9:22 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My furnace! |
It's currently 56 degress in my house. I think something may be wrong with my heater. |
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| Author: | Douchebag [ Tue Jan 29, 2013 9:30 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My furnace! |
Just pour some gas on your furnance. |
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| Author: | Frank Coztansa [ Tue Jan 29, 2013 9:39 am ] |
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