# Gas Oven Issues **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [September 4, 2006, 8:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gas-oven-issues/16961 "2006-09-04T20:05:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jack](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jack/32/7613_2.png) [@Jack](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jack)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2006, 8:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gas-oven-issues/16961/1 "2006-09-04T20:05:31Z")
Anyone deal with gas ovens? I have a natural gas fireplace in my living room, and I’m having issues with lighting it. It lit in the past… but when I try it now, the pilot just goes out. The pilot will stay on on its own, but when I activate the main burner, the pilot goes out and nothing happens. I replaced the thermocoupler already, and that hasn’t solved anything. Ideas? ---
**Author:** ![JEG](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jeg/32/7246_2.png) [@JEG](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JEG)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2006, 8:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gas-oven-issues/16961/2 "2006-09-04T20:26:51Z")
Sounds dumb, but could it be some kind of pressure regulator or something? Think of it like a blow torch, if the gas is on too high, it won’t light. :gotme:. I don’t know shit about gas fireplaces lol… just a thaught. ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2006, 8:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gas-oven-issues/16961/3 "2006-09-04T20:47:49Z")
My money’s on a flow issue, maybe that the main burner is flowing too much and blowing out the pilot. ---
**Author:** ![Jack](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jack/32/7613_2.png) [@Jack](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jack)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2006, 2:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gas-oven-issues/16961/4 "2006-09-05T14:38:11Z")
nah, pilot goes out before i even hit the burner. ---
**Author:** ![articzap](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/articzap/32/7361_2.png) [@articzap](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/articzap)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2006, 2:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gas-oven-issues/16961/5 "2006-09-05T14:48:18Z")
sounds like the gas coming out of the burner is blowin out the flame because the mixture or gas to air is wrong? ---
**Author:** ![Jack](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jack/32/7613_2.png) [@Jack](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jack)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2006, 2:54pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gas-oven-issues/16961/6 "2006-09-05T14:54:31Z")
no. the pilot goes out before the main burner even releases any gas. ---
**Author:** ![fbrendan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d26b3c/32.png) [@fbrendan](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fbrendan)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2006, 5:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gas-oven-issues/16961/7 "2006-09-05T17:23:32Z")
From what you said it sounds like it WOULD have been the thermocoupler. Look at the pilot while you manually hold it open, are both sensors (thermopile and thermocoupler) burried in that flame? May need a tweak? Voltage test? Brand, model, year? ---
**Author:** ![fbrendan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d26b3c/32.png) [@fbrendan](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fbrendan)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2006, 5:32pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gas-oven-issues/16961/8 "2006-09-05T17:32:34Z")
Oh! and the biggest issue I see if it has been off all summer: Spiders love the smell of NG and probably got in and A. died B. made a web C. both The pilots light, but blocks some of the air chamber. Burner comes on and the pilot and burner go out. Take a paper clip and a can of compressed air and clean out that pilot tube well. Make sure you stick it in the side hole too where the air chamber is. Either way its either the thermopile generator, blocked pilot tube, thermocoup (replaced tho), or if its really really old, the valve. ---
**Author:** ![84\_Supra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/8/bc79bd/32.png) [@84\_Supra](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/84_Supra)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2006, 5:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gas-oven-issues/16961/9 "2006-09-05T17:58:19Z")
thermocoupler ftw ---
**Author:** ![fbrendan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d26b3c/32.png) [@fbrendan](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fbrendan)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 4:29pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gas-oven-issues/16961/10 "2006-09-09T16:29:32Z")
Any update? ---
**Author:** ![ILCisDEAD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a87d85/32.png) [@ILCisDEAD](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ILCisDEAD)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 4:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gas-oven-issues/16961/11 "2006-09-09T16:55:33Z")
> [@brendansi](#): > > Spiders love the smell of NG and probably got in and A. died B. made a web C. both Really? thats fucking sweet i never knew that ---
**Author:** ![Jack](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jack/32/7613_2.png) [@Jack](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jack)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 5:24pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gas-oven-issues/16961/12 "2006-09-09T17:24:31Z")
I’m going to clean it tomorrow. brendan… if you wanted to check it out I’d make it worth your time. I’m not sure how many milivolts I should be pullin from the thermocouple, but a friend of mine with the voltage reader said there was a current, we just didn’t know if it was enough. That same friend of mine is trying to price some valves… if we need to replace that. But I’d much rather just give it a thourough cleansing… and be warm all winter. I found the problem on my gas dryer today… the thermal fuse. Now I just have to find a place to buy one, hopefully tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![Jon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@Jon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jon)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 6:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gas-oven-issues/16961/13 "2006-09-09T18:47:40Z")
Thermocouple,we keep an extra on hand and it really sucks if they go in the middle of winter and you dont have a spare. ---
**Author:** ![Jack](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jack/32/7613_2.png) [@Jack](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jack)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2006, 7:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gas-oven-issues/16961/14 "2006-09-10T07:00:08Z")
Thanks Jon… if it turns out to be the valve… I will have a spare thermocouple too… cause that means the first one was still good. ---
**Author:** ![fbrendan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d26b3c/32.png) [@fbrendan](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fbrendan)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2006, 4:18pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gas-oven-issues/16961/15 "2006-09-17T16:18:14Z")
I missed your update. If you need some help, I could try to take a look at it. ---
**Author:** ![Jack](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jack/32/7613_2.png) [@Jack](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jack)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2006, 6:32pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gas-oven-issues/16961/16 "2006-09-18T18:32:25Z")
If you think you can handle it, let me know. I’ve already spent $250 for someone else to look at it and it still doesn’t work. He is going to take 1 more stab at it… and let me know.