Champ Job Maker heater runs and dies

Bought a Champ Job Maker heater for a song. Got it home. It runs briefly and dies. Fuel level is fine and fuel seems OK. I blew out all the lines excepting those in the gun, same thing. Runs and dies. Shut it off for about 1 second, it'll fire briefly and die again. Pump continues to run but no flame. I shut it off, cracked the gun line loose, turned it on. I get brief fuel flow from the gun line and it peters out. I open the bleeder while it's still running, good flow. I can stick my finger over the open bleeder and stop the flow, not sure if this is normal. Pump is definitely pulling fuel but after a few seconds it stops pushing anything to the gun line. Had the pump apart a few times, blew out everything I could find, no luck. Same thing. Runs and dies. Opened the transformer just a little when it's running but not flaming, good spark there. No unburnt fuel blowing out of the heater. Has a Webster 1725RPM pump.

I figure I need to get a gauge to it but I don't have on unless you can use an air pressure gauge.

Unknown on the history of this heater. I have not adjusted anything nor will I attempt to without the gauge and a decent understanding of what I'm doing.

Anyone run into something similar?

Edited by Heliarc - 18 hours 58 minutes ago at 12:19pm

It's either heating oil or AG diesel. Either one should be fine for this unit.

are you sure the FUEL LINE and NOZZLE out of the pump are  clear and not plugged with GUM ?

Riprock wrote: I don't know that brand but i've seen several that have a pencil size nylon type filter inside the brass fuel line coming up out of the tank. You have to break the line and pull the tube out of the tank.  Ive also seen one with a plastic fuel filter with an arrow that was installed backwards and would do the same thing.