oil burner motor

Good day.

Weil McClain heat/hot water furnace, Wayne M-SR burner, both about 20 years old.

For the last few weeks my oil burner motor *sometimes* smells hot and pops the motor reset button on the motor housing. That also seems to pop the burner circuit (the *red* button) on the control box.

Let it cool for about 15 minutes, punch the motor reset and control box buttons back in, and all is well for a few days.

Only happens maybe once every day or two, but prior to this month never happened.

What's my next step? Is the oil burner motor on its last legs? Any test I can do? I've added the appropriate few drops of electric motor oil each year as recommended.

Thanks.
Tom

Hi nutmeqct, welcome to the forum I'd advise you to change the temperature controller

Jeffie - thanks for the reply.

What is a "temperature controller"? On the Wayne burner, where do I find it? If it's not on the burner, where is it?

Tom

Hehehehheee my bad I was lost for the word thermostat. Don't you have one on the Wayne burner?

If your wayne burner is going on reset then there is a issue your burner motor over heated and overload pop motor no good need to be replace 1725 or 3450 rpm motor most likely its a slow speed 1725 as for test if the overload pop thats all u need to know to replace it.

make sure you shut the power to unit before you work on it = P