The pilot won't stay lit.

Rheem water heater pilot light won't stay lit. When it’s bent to a certain extent away from the pilot light, it’s no longer functional because it won’t be able to detect the heat. In this video, i'm showing you how to replace your thermocouple so your pilot light in the water heater will stay lit. This is the one thing that's worked amazing to get my hot water heater pilot light to stay on!

I was wondering if i should attempt to replace the pilot. Put the flame from the. A faulty main control can be the reason why the pilot light won’t stay on.

Picture this, you wake up in the morning and your water won’t heat up. In general, the instructions go like this: The most common issues are thermocouple, lack of combustible air, thermostatic control or gas.

The longer thermocouple is fine. It fails to send a signal to the gas valve to open up, meaning gas does no flow to the pilot and. I have rheem fury 40 gallon water heater.

Jump past the yapping goto 4:30this is a video discussing the issues with rheem water heaters and quick way to tell if your heater is having the same issues. This is another issue that occurs less frequently, so you must eliminate other possibilities. To fix this is also simple:

And you know the flame needs oxygen and without oxygen, it will extinguish the flame or pilot light. I get a spark and the flame comes on while i'm pressing the. Besides, rheem water heater pilot light won’t stay lit if the igniter is at.