1victorianfarmhouse
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Nice to find some forums to read that aren't 10 years old and dead...
I recently bought an older victorian house, and the main gas furnace (Armstrong) is from 1996 but worked fine....for about 2 weeks.
The blower motor does not start up. It seems to want to start and moves very very slowly, but even with help turning it, it won't stay running. The fan turns easier before and after the fan tries to kick in.
I had a HVAC repairman take a look at it today while I was gone, and he told me the fan had frozen stuck, but he was able to loosen it, and get it running though the bearings were bad and I would be best to replace the furnace.
It's already not working again. I find the fan turns awfully smoothly for having bearings that were stuck just this morning. No noise or roughness. I am wondering if there's a limit switch type of apparatus that I should look for, or the motor itself is probably going bad. The fan itself looks very clean.
Comments welcome and greatly appreciated. I'll be able to post more details once I know what info people need to know.
Thanks,
vince
I recently bought an older victorian house, and the main gas furnace (Armstrong) is from 1996 but worked fine....for about 2 weeks.
The blower motor does not start up. It seems to want to start and moves very very slowly, but even with help turning it, it won't stay running. The fan turns easier before and after the fan tries to kick in.
I had a HVAC repairman take a look at it today while I was gone, and he told me the fan had frozen stuck, but he was able to loosen it, and get it running though the bearings were bad and I would be best to replace the furnace.
It's already not working again. I find the fan turns awfully smoothly for having bearings that were stuck just this morning. No noise or roughness. I am wondering if there's a limit switch type of apparatus that I should look for, or the motor itself is probably going bad. The fan itself looks very clean.
Comments welcome and greatly appreciated. I'll be able to post more details once I know what info people need to know.
Thanks,
vince