Taylors heater

[Stemar]

I've installed the heater - an, 079D, and it chucks out enough heat to make Jissel nice & toasty even last weekend, BUT...

I have to fiddle with the needle valve every few minutes or the flow stops.

I have a fuel head of around 30 ins - The book says 48ins is best, but 24ins is feasable, so I ought to be OK.
I've stripped the valve and cleaned it - the needle doesn't look especially worn and when screwed in, it stops the flow effectively and there's a good flow if I open it a full turn.
I've even tried putting an old car fuel pump similar to the one offered by Taylors, but to no avail. There might have been a slight improvement, but not enough for it to keep working more than 10 mins unattended.
oh, and the fuel seems clean.

Any suggestions?

 

[quimby]

Disconnect pipe and blow through with airline, you can make one from air cannister as used for compressed air foghorn.
Could be a bit of muck in fueline.check you have a fine filter mesh in tank. It doesn`t take much to block the jets.

 

[dovekie]

We have the same, with about 20 inches head of pressure and a long pipe run, always works fine - so whatever it is I don't think it's the pressure head

 

[orourke]

Hi Steve
It's Fergie from the club (SIOBHAN) owner, Sounds very much like it just needs a clean through.
Happy New Year To You All o-rourke@talk21.com