Furnace with over-active igniter
After years of lurking, I have finally come up with an issue that I have to post my own thread for! I have a furnace that in the past couple days has decided to continue to click (sounds like the...
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From what I know most Suburban furnaces have to get pulled out of the trailer to repair them. Maybe you got lucky and have one that has an outside access panel.
If you didn't get lucky then the only thing you can easily check will be the limit switch on the back. That should be good, because if it was really bad the furnace would not light. Everything else will be on the opposite end of the furnace where you can't get to it.
IMO, given what you said, and the fact that it's intermittent, I would just live with it until the component broke. It will make finding the problem much easier. I still might consider swapping out the thermostat since they are cheap and easy to do. Just pull the 12v fuse from the panel prior to changing it out.
If you didn't get lucky then the only thing you can easily check will be the limit switch on the back. That should be good, because if it was really bad the furnace would not light. Everything else will be on the opposite end of the furnace where you can't get to it.
IMO, given what you said, and the fact that it's intermittent, I would just live with it until the component broke. It will make finding the problem much easier. I still might consider swapping out the thermostat since they are cheap and easy to do. Just pull the 12v fuse from the panel prior to changing it out.
