The Semi-Annual Trane Furnace Failure

A video about me fixing my crappy Trane furnace or why I hate my Trane furnace.

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[tranedan53]

Use something without grit to clean it. By the way ALL manufactures want the burners clean on LP gas annually. Your furance runs more that your car. Do you not service that? And unless your wood is free and you see no value to your time wood isn't always the answer.

[TheWreckingYard]

@tranedan53 I would have loved to leave servicing to trane, but the local dealer NEVER returned a call. In some ways I don't blame him, I didn't buy from him, I bought from a Home Depot contractor and they ended up only interested in doing installations. Wood is a pain, wood pellets are interesting, but get to be difficult to get late in the season, no doubt propane is convienient.

[tranedan53]

I have sold trane for years. I sell probably 600 a year. I can tell you the issue is the LP gas and not the furnace. I see in the video that there are wire nuts on the ignitor wires. Why is that? If it was the correct one you wouldn't have had to cut anything. I also think the post above could be correct about the 80 volt ignitors vs. the 120V. You need to make sure the correct board is in with the correct ignitor. Also NEVER use sand paper on the sensor. It will damage it.

[TheWreckingYard]

@tranedan53 Another had said that the LP has a higher water content than natural gas and it causes more problems because of that. As far as the marettes on the igniter wires goes, on the first failure when the installer wouldn't come out to service it, and the local trane dealer wouldn't return calls, I called another furnace company and he hacked it up and blew the main board. Point taken on the sensor, than was a suggestion from a forum.

[majesticheating]

TRANE. At the beginning of your video you mentioned that the board was changed. Trane and some other manufactures use an 80 volt igniter while other furnace manufactures use a 110 volt igniter. I have come across a few instances where the integrated furnace circuit board has been replaced and the replacement board delivered 110 volts to the 80 volt igniter.

[TheWreckingYard]

@majesticheating I'll check, I never actually replaced the board, I repaired it, I do have a replacement board. I might as well try it.

[ducky69918]

see if stainles burners are availiable, pay the price and there will be no problems with the burners.

[hdyudu]

what a rip off price the parts 

[TheWreckingYard]

@thedekester18 I understand that some of the earlier high or mid efficiency units used spark plugs for ignition. Certainly that sound like a much more serviceable design.

[TheWreckingYard]

@tuck1963 Hopefully not, clearly my unit has some problems. I certainly expected more than 3 years before I started having issues. I was thinking that I'll be lucky to get 10years out of this unit.