Hello all, need some advice regarding the Hurricane in our 2000 Marquis. As anyone who uses one knows they can be problematic. I’ve worked on mine long enough to know my way around it. Recently I started having trouble keeping it ignited. It would fire as it should but only for a fraction of a second and wouldn’t stay lit, just sort of “popped.” Fuel is present and fan blowing. I pulled the igniter and the tip glowed as it should. I finally called the factory for some help and together we discovered that the igniter, when removed from its proper location to visually test, would glow only at the top of the “U” protruding from the ceramic housing. The tech I spoke with told me it must glow from the top of the “U” to halfway down to the ceramic. Problem solved! Next, finding the Oasis 9002 igniter proved next to impossible as these come Only out of Canada and have been held up due to COVID (what’s new?). I finally found a supply that was <$70, incredible stroke of luck, (most on-line stores had them for as much as $300 [total rip-off] and were “back ordered.”) I took the old one and the new one and tested with a 12v power supply. Sure enough the new one was much brighter with a larger area glowing than the old one. Proof of the problem - as I sat the old one down on my workbench the “U” piece cracked and a chunk fell off proving there was too much resistance in the old one to draw enough current to light it up. Now, to the problem ... after all the troubleshooting to isolate the problem ... I put it all back together to test my findings and guess what? It didn’t ignite! Are you kidding? Back to square one, where to start? The obvious place was to see if the starting voltage was present at the igniter leads and sure enough when the demand for this short presence of voltage was required, it was not there. Everything else seemed to work as it should. It had always worked before. After all the other maintenance, parts replacement and labor and now this? I have no idea how to troubleshoot or isolate where the igniter signal voltage originates or can be traced. The flame sensor is working. Any ideas?? Your input would be greatly appreciated!
