How To Tune Up An Oil Burner

There will come a time when your oil burner will need a tune up or possible another type of repair to get it back running the way it.

Hiring a licensed professional to fix your oil burner but you do have the choice to do it yourself in many states if you own the property, but make sure with your local township first.

Let’s take a look at some of the parts that a oil burner has and let’s also take about what they do and what will be required to replace these parts if they should have to be.

One of the most common replaced parts of the oil burner gun is the oil burner nozzle.

The nozzle often gets clogged because of a number of reasons such as dirty oil filter, wrong amount of air intake causing rich burning, and of course the age of the nozzle as nothing lats forever. There are a  lot of Weil McLain boiler owners that like to change there nozzles more often then recommended by Weil McLain because the feel it will keep the boiler more pristine.

The Weil McLain boiler nozzle is changeable with a few tools, but it is recommended for you to call a professional if you have never worked on a boiler before. If you are a professional, then you will know that the Weil McLain oil burner offers many Beckett burners that are easy to service when your customer has a problem.

The blast tube is part of the oil burner and has to be adjusted from time to time depending on the condition, age, and type of repair that the oil burner requires. Most of the time the blast tube will not have to be worked on, but as the years go by you might wind up changing one. The blast tube is usually made from a thin steel and is a round tube. Its not very expensive to buy either, its actually one of the less expensive Weil McLain oil burner parts to replace.

The oil burner  blower wheel has is also located inside the oil burner unit as well, and this is usually checked to see if its clean and free spinning. The squirrel cage blower wheel normally will not get replaced during an oil burner tune up. It most cases this will out last the boiler itself. If you are required to change this part then the good news is that blower wheels are not that expensive and are stocked at most boiler replacement part warehouses like Sid Harvey’s , Blackman Plumbing, Ferguson Plumbing and many other local plumbing supply houses.

The oil filter is another important part of the boiler tune up as well. Depending on how much fuel and how much the boiler runs will determine how dirty the filter is but it is recommended to change it on a normal tune up service.

The oil burner transformer is a part that commonly will get replaced by your oil burner service tech. The transformer may have to be replaced for a number of reasons like age, corrosion, faulty equipment etc. It is recommend that a licensed professional changes the oil burner transformer.

The oil burner electrodes will most likely have to be adjusted on the time of the tune up as well for max ignition. This is a general service that is repaired all the time by professionals and can be done in a few minutes by a trained oil burner mechanic.

Adjusting the burner flame is very important and is only recommended to do by someone that is fully trained in oil burner repair because this could take several adjustments of the air intake and the C02 level has to be checked as well. Please make sure to call a licensed professional to do this for you.