Empire Heater not working properly

[Farley]

I saw the other post on Empire heaters and did a search, but this problem is a little different. Just put in a new regulator because of these issues, new regulator doesnt seem to help. We can get the pilot lit, then we'll crank the thermostat and get the heater to light up properly, but after a few minutes the whole works will go out. no pilot, no burner (by burner I mean inside the heater not the cooktop, that works fine). We had it working for a while but we had the heat all the way up to 90 and as soon as we adjusted it down it went out. Seems to me the pilot light is larger than normal and flickers and moves around sloppily rather than looking like a nice tight flame like a butane torch, if that makes sense. Maybe that was because of the wind, I dont know. Anyone have a similar issue with an empire and how did you fix?

[ponzie]

The same thing happened to me with my 10,000 BTU empire heater, Try a different tank of gas, make sure it's not from the same place as the tank you are useing now,

I had my 100lb filled at a different place last year and had nothing but problems.

[eyebjim]

I had one that I sold to a buddy that would so this. The back panel had a rust hole in it that would make it so that wind could get into the burner chamber. We removed the heater to find the issue then crumpled a bunch of aluminum foil and fitted it into the rusted spot and it worked great. He later replaced the back panel but the al foil worked really good.