Firebird 90 Leaking oil. Pics enclosed.

carlost

Hey,
Hoping someone here can help. My firebird 90 is leaking oil from the encircled piston/valve below. Its dripping slowly. Any ideas what might be wrong/what to do?
Thanks for any help you can give.

Dtp1979

carlost wrote: »

Hey,
Hoping someone here can help. My firebird 90 is leaking oil from the encircled piston/valve below. Its dripping slowly. Any ideas what might be wrong/what to do?
Thanks for any help you can give.

Only a matter of replacing an o ring. A job for your service engineer

davidoco

Replace. Replace and replace.
That is a common part failure. I hear it can be repaired but most if not everyone just replaces it.

carlost

Cheers guys. Might just look into replacing it.

Wearb

davidoco wrote: »

Replace. Replace and replace.
That is a common part failure. I hear it can be repaired but most if not everyone just replaces it.

I always repair them. They are too expensive to just replace them when a cheap seal repairs them like new.

sullzz

It is very common for the hydraulic jack to leak , and as said , it's so easy and cheap to repair them , I think I only ever replaced one , repaired the others

shane0007

Circlips pliers & a new hydraulic jack washer (Part No. 3007132).

scudo2

davidoco wrote: »

Replace. Replace and replace.
That is a common part failure. I hear it can be repaired but most if not everyone just replaces it.

replace, replace my ass ! F that !

Replace washer not the hydraulic ram or in time of great fixes: replace burner + boiler.

Washer = €1-00

Up to your intelligent call on repair !

carlost

Is it a difficult job to repair it or should it be left to service engineer?

jimf

its not a difficult job when you open the circlip just be careful theres a spring behind

Billy Bunting

Turn off oil, carefully remove small copper pipe attached to top of ram, remove Phillips screw and carefully remove ram (brass bushing behind screw)from burner, carefully squeeze circlip (heavy spring behind)and remove, place parts down in order of removal, remove ram shaft and take note of direction of seal on shaft, remove seal, fit new and rebuild and fit in reverse order.

Good luck!

carlost

I love the internet and the guys who offer their knowledge on it. All the help is much appreciated guys. cheers

scudo2

Billy Bunting wrote: »

Turn off oil, carefully remove small copper pipe attached to top of ram, remove Phillips screw and carefully remove ram (brass bushing behind screw)from burner, carefully squeeze circlip (heavy spring behind)and remove, place parts down in order of removal, remove ram shaft and take note of direction of seal on shaft, remove seal, fit new and rebuild and fit in reverse order.

Good luck!

Hi Billy.
I loved the "heavy spring" part !

Some job trying to find the bits that fly !!

carlost

Cheers for all the info guys. Got a replacement piece from a friend which is well enough because I had to replace the whole line attached to it as the nut at the top was stuck. All good now methinks

Wearb

carlost wrote: »

Cheers for all the info guys. Got a replacement piece from a friend which is well enough because I had to replace the whole line attached to it as the nut at the top was stuck. All good now methinks

Thanks for reporting back.

dek84

remove the ram and air shutter and plug pump common occurrence with these burners...

shane0007

dek84 wrote: »

remove the ram and air shutter and plug pump common occurrence with these burners...

Do that & you will lose a lot of boiler efficiency. That is what the air flap is for!

Wearb

Dek84 Hope he hasn't been waiting since November for a solution

Billy Bunting

dek84 wrote: »

remove the ram and air shutter and plug pump common occurrence with these burners...

You don't happen to supply and fit circulating pumps for €50 do you. :rolleyes: