Thetruck454
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Looking for advice on what to check/what my next steps should be. I'm not a professional by any means, just a homeowner who likes to try to do things themselves.
In the basement I have a 275 double walled steel horizontal tank with a general air red toped filter. The line then goes up about 4 feet travels 25 horizontally before it drops to the burner. A couple years ago was having an issue with the burner locking out repeatedly when the tank was low (I assumed it was a aeration issue due to the pump having to pull up that high) so I put in a tiger loop with a 10 micron spin on filter on the wall about 1 ft above the burner/fuel pump. That again solved the problem at the moment. Now fast forward to this year and the burner was cleaned/serviced in the spring. About August this year I started to hear it banging while it was firing. I scheduled a cleaning, but due to the backlog the furnace got bad enough it would trip out. With the help of google I bought a couple spare nozzles and changed it out. It immediately started firing nice and smooth again. In October the plumbing company came out and cleaned the furnace. So here we are about two months out and you can hear the furnace starting to get loud again.
I'm not sure what to check again. Replacing the nozzle will probably temporarily fix it, but I don't feel I'm solving the problem. Any suggestions?
Even if it's something I can't troubleshoot and I have to hire a plumbing company come out again, I'd like to be knowledgeable enough to have a two way conversation with them.
In the basement I have a 275 double walled steel horizontal tank with a general air red toped filter. The line then goes up about 4 feet travels 25 horizontally before it drops to the burner. A couple years ago was having an issue with the burner locking out repeatedly when the tank was low (I assumed it was a aeration issue due to the pump having to pull up that high) so I put in a tiger loop with a 10 micron spin on filter on the wall about 1 ft above the burner/fuel pump. That again solved the problem at the moment. Now fast forward to this year and the burner was cleaned/serviced in the spring. About August this year I started to hear it banging while it was firing. I scheduled a cleaning, but due to the backlog the furnace got bad enough it would trip out. With the help of google I bought a couple spare nozzles and changed it out. It immediately started firing nice and smooth again. In October the plumbing company came out and cleaned the furnace. So here we are about two months out and you can hear the furnace starting to get loud again.
I'm not sure what to check again. Replacing the nozzle will probably temporarily fix it, but I don't feel I'm solving the problem. Any suggestions?
Even if it's something I can't troubleshoot and I have to hire a plumbing company come out again, I'd like to be knowledgeable enough to have a two way conversation with them.