Posted by: Kim on March 22, 2001 at 17:15:22

Hope someone can help! I have had TONS and TONS of problems with this furnace. The latest one is that when it goes to heat up, the furnace goes through the firing cycle, the heat element gets cherry red, the gas comes on..( you can hear it), and 90% of the time it won't catch flame and of course, no heat! It tries 3 more times and shuts down. Now I can get it to catch IF I blow a strong quick breath across the gas tubes, forcing the gas across the heat element. This gets a little hard to do if I am at work or asleep. So it gets bloody cold in this house!!! I have contacted Bryant and got no answers or suggestions, (other than replace the entire furnace.. but I can't afford that right now. ) This furnace is only 3 heat seasons old. For the past 2 seasons... well.. it's given me lots of trouble...aside from a stick of dynamite, can someone tell me how to fix this thing? Thanks!

Answer:
My advice to you would be to pay a professional service person for a service call. You may be having a low gas pressure problem. Sometimes mfg"s have made changes in the location of flame sensors, ignitors etc. They will not tell the customer of this due to insurance purposes, (and I can understand that).

Another Answer:
If the hot surface ignitor is not close enough to the gas/air mixture, or the gas is too rich at that location the gas will not ignite. Someone moving the ignitor from the factory-specified location is voiding the warrantee and taking the responsibility for any problem, so the factory can only advise to replace the unit with one that does ignite properly.