Mobile Home Furnace Fumes
Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 2:39 am
Recently we fired up our furnace and it ran fine. About 2wks ago it started to make this mis-fire noise but yet would still heat and blow. One night it stopped running so we just hit the re-set with still the same result; some mis-fire; would run a cycle shut off but the difference would be that to get the furnace to run again we would have to continually hit the re-set; my husband thinking air in the line tried to bleed the line with no results; no kerosene was even coming through so our first thought was water in the line and it froze and blocked the kerosene. The next day we bought a new outside filter and inside nozzle and the guy at the supply store said to add a little bit of dry gas to the fuel tank as we've not been able to afford a tank or kerosene so we have been continually just buying at the gas station and putting it in ourselves. We didn't change the filter or the nozzle but instantly tried the dry gas with good results. The furnace started running again. I could here the instant change in the running of the furnace once we added the dry gas and the furnace ran fine for about 2 days. We then started smelling kerosene fumes; we've already decided that originally the line wasn't clogged by water/ice as the days since then have been well above freezing and our new dilemma started during the day--I will add that before the strong smell of kerosene in the house that mis-fire noise happened just one time/one cycle and now the fumes. Since this point in time the line bleeds but the furnace won't fire. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated before I go a spend a bundle for perhaps nothing. Should we have just stuck with the changing of the nozzle and the outside filter or are we looking at something bigger than those two items.