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Apr 12, 2016
Compact and versatile
I bought this pump testing manifold to test my 20 year old suntec oil burner pump on my Beckett AFII burner that is also 20 years old. I have had some intermittent problems with my burner not being able to fire up and did notice that it was the pump. The pump just does not get up to consistent pressure and thanks to this product's versatility I was able to run my oil burner with both the suction and pressure lines hooked up with the knobs turned fully CCW. I could see that the pump was not pulling a vacuum and that there were no noticeable air bubbles in the oil supply line after I bled the pump. However, the pressure reading was slightly below the burner manufacturers settings. I tried cranking up the pressure slightly by turning the pump's pressure adjustment screw CW and instead of the pressure going up and stabilizing, it started going down. According to the pump testing manifold's instructions, this means that the pump is bad. I also tested the cutoff feature as described in the instructions and my pumps cutoff dropped 35-40% which is far more than it was supposed to. Without this manifold I never would have been able to test whether my pump was good or bad. Now I will be looking forward to try and repair or replace it.
May 17, 2016
good oil pump
1 of 1 found this helpful Replaced a 20+ year old Suntec A2VA-7116 burner oil pump that had problems adjusting pressure with this new one. I also had to adjust the pressure on it from 100 psi to burner default 140 psi and so I used a pressure gauge that was part of a pump testing manifold develped by Mitco where one can check both the pump pressure and vacuum readings. After some smoke level and draft adjustments my oil burner runs without any problems so far.