|
Hello Hay,
Well, I've cleaned thousands of Carrier 3 wire pilot orifices in my twenty years as a repairman for a gas utility. 98% of the time they can be cleaned easily enough, the other 2% the remedy is to replace the orifice with a new one, unless the pilot switch itself is the problem. (which it is of course, occasionally).
But I'd certainly try cleaning or replacing the pilot orifice first rather than replacing the pilot assembly. Why replace something for $50-75 when you can clean it for ten minutes of your time?
Cleaning the pilot orifice every year or two will prevent this kind of furnace outage.
|