Seized oil pump yet again

[Bomber74]

Had a new boiler fitted 6 months ago only to discover water in my oil tank which resulted in seized pump. Just had another fill of oil and yet again more water and another seized pump. Can these seized pumps be reconditioned? I guess a new oil tank the only solution. Any advice/guidance much appreciated

 

[Last Plumber]

No, not as far as I know.
Do you know how the water is getting in?

Oil/Fuel pumps are self lubricating and will not last very long without Oil inside them. I am talking in minutes as opposed to hours or days.

 

[Bomber74]

No, not as far as I know.
Do you know how the water is getting in?

Oil/Fuel pumps are self lubricating and will not last very long without Oil inside them. I am talking in minutes as opposed to hours or days.

No idea how the water has managed to get into tank. Going to try and syfon out the water from tank tomorrow.

 

[SJB060685]

You need to get to the bottom of the water ingress. Is the tank open to atmosphere?, ie single bunded and vent missing? You need to dip the tank with water detection paste to see how much water is in the tank. You can get the water and oil pumped out and separated

 

[SimonG]

Bite the bullet and as SJB says above it needs investigating, stopping and the tank pumping out.

 

[king of pipes]

I have had this problem, the water was condensation forming on the underside of the tank and dropping into the stored oil causing nuisance lock out of the burner and eventually pump failure, called in a local oil tank cleaning company who sucked out the contaminated oil cleaned the tank replaced the seal on the lid and refilled it with new oil. Cheers kop