Espar maintenance

I’m about to buy a new glow plug, screen, and fuel filter for my Espar bunk heater. After watching the videos and seeing exactly how the process is done, I got to thinking, can these parts be cleaned with any success?

Seeing prices for the plug and removal socket from $54 bucks to $160. I’m guessing the cheaper one is an aftermarket.

My issues are excessive smoking when starting and sometimes the heater cutting off when I back off the temp. Although it seems the Power Service I treated my tanks with last week in Colorado seems to have remedied most of these two issues. Also seems like blowing the espar at full blast for a few minutes upon initial start up allows me to adjust the temp lower throughout the night. My company absolutely will not work on these things unless it’s crapped out completely and I was amazed at how simple they are to work on after watching a few videos on servicing them.

Anybody ever cleaned these parts instead of replaced them?

 

Exactly! It’s $12 bucks by itself (included with the plug) so figured I’d just buy one since it will be reused more than likely. There’s a hole in that slot that likes to get build up so I’m thinking in the future I’ll see if it’s blocked up with carbon before buying new parts.

Thanks, yes I remember in one of the videos he had mentioned that he’d never seen one come out in one piece.

 

If you look at the sticker on the side of it you’ll see a model number. Should be a D followed by a 1,2,3,or 4. You can find service videos on all of them. It’s a pretty simple setup. Some people say they need serviced bi-annually. Mines three years old and made it to this point so far.

Yours sounds like it might just be a bad plug.