This a story of my Tifell boiler here in spain , the boiler is 15 years old, never had problem in all that time.
We use about 300lt per year.
Once a year I take the front off and clean all the inside, it has had 3 nozzles in all the time.
In november I turned on the boiler, fired straight as normal, 2 hours later checked and it has gone out to lockout it seemed that the motor had gone, after taking the pump out and checked the motor was ok , the pump has seized.
Went and got a new SUNTEC oil pump and fitted it, the pump is on a two pipe system of 10mm copper, the bottom of the oil is tank s 1.5m below the boiler, the boiler is now firing.
3 hours later the boiler has locked out same thing pump sized.
Got the engineer in , his first words that's very old boiler, I went and left him,by the way this guy is english and comes recommended, after an hour it is all working.
2 hours later back to normal motor stopped, to get the pump to takes a couple of minutes with a spanner on the flat of the shaft.
Calls him back , walks through the and says it is too old to repair , here is a price for a new one 3860€
Tefell boiler are all connected fro the back with flexible, there no side tapping.
I now get a spanish engineer in , has a look and fetches a new pump from the van , fitted and working in 10 minutes, he hangs on for a hour just make sure it is ok after coffee and brandy.
After a couple of days it is back to square one seized.
A friend of mine who is a electrical engineer recons it the control box telling the solenoid to shut off with stopping the motor, fit control box works for 3 days , lockout pump seized.
I worked on boilers 30 ago when I ran a plumbing and heating company, never seen this fault before.
It run on gasoil,35sec.
Ok tell what could the problem be??
Richard:disguise:
We use about 300lt per year.
Once a year I take the front off and clean all the inside, it has had 3 nozzles in all the time.
In november I turned on the boiler, fired straight as normal, 2 hours later checked and it has gone out to lockout it seemed that the motor had gone, after taking the pump out and checked the motor was ok , the pump has seized.
Went and got a new SUNTEC oil pump and fitted it, the pump is on a two pipe system of 10mm copper, the bottom of the oil is tank s 1.5m below the boiler, the boiler is now firing.
3 hours later the boiler has locked out same thing pump sized.
Got the engineer in , his first words that's very old boiler, I went and left him,by the way this guy is english and comes recommended, after an hour it is all working.
2 hours later back to normal motor stopped, to get the pump to takes a couple of minutes with a spanner on the flat of the shaft.
Calls him back , walks through the and says it is too old to repair , here is a price for a new one 3860€
Tefell boiler are all connected fro the back with flexible, there no side tapping.
I now get a spanish engineer in , has a look and fetches a new pump from the van , fitted and working in 10 minutes, he hangs on for a hour just make sure it is ok after coffee and brandy.
After a couple of days it is back to square one seized.
A friend of mine who is a electrical engineer recons it the control box telling the solenoid to shut off with stopping the motor, fit control box works for 3 days , lockout pump seized.
I worked on boilers 30 ago when I ran a plumbing and heating company, never seen this fault before.
It run on gasoil,35sec.
Ok tell what could the problem be??
Richard:disguise:
