Start heating my house you jerk!

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

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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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

Thanks Obama!

It's pretty old. It has one red blinking light.

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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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

It might be a limit switch.

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

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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My guy says buy a tankless system.

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... took long enough ...

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Secret DS message!

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

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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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

It will be moot in a little bit, but here is what it looks like:

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

What shuts off after a few seconds? The blower? Flame? Gas valve? All?

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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.

The flame goes down the pipe and shoots out and then it stops like it shut itself off.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

If the gas valve was broke, it wouldn't stop running.

New house

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Put on your Snuggie

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Needs more coal...

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Go with darko, clean the little metal rod off with some steel wool, you should be good.

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team Meatpants

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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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Am I the only one who sees the irony of a guy named Boilermaker Rick having furnace trouble?

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Yeah, its like that time my buddy Colonfucker Bruce got prostate cancer....weird.

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@audioidkid

To be fair, have you watched Purdue football? I think they all have furnace trouble.

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I've just ordered the last boilers lit!

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

It's currently 56 degress in my house. I think something may be wrong with my heater.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Just pour some gas on your furnance.

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