I would imagine so. They are new in plastic wrapper, so I would not know off hand what they smell like.

HereÂs a Âround about idea of comparative prices - fuel oil vs. natural gas - from a gas bill that I dug up from 2008. For 9 CCF of natural gas I paid (including delivery charges and taxes and blah, blah, blah) - $14.54 That does NOT include the "availability charge" that I pay for the stupid meter hanging on my building, but itÂs a commercial account. But eliminating that, it comes out to about $1.61 per CCF. (CCF = approximately 100,000 btu) Right now that same amount of gas would cost me approximately $17.56 or about $1.95 per CCF WeÂll go with that. A gallon of #2 fuel oil right now, looking around, IÂm finding to be about $2.49 per gallon for my area, which is northern Michigan. I donÂt use fuel oil so had to search it. Fuel oil will give you about a 38% bigger bang per gallon as opposed to a CCF of natural gas. So then, to end up with that same BTU content I would have had to spend $2.69 per CCF. However, if my oil furnace were running at AT BEST 70% efficiency ( which unless yours is a fairly recent model IÂm guessing it isnÂt) things change. But letÂs give it the benefit of a doubt and say it, as it is, is running at 75%. That would mean that you are getting usable heat with oil worth about $1.86 per gallon A natural gas furnace running at 95% efficiency will give you that same usable heat for about the same amount - $ 1.85 Lower the efficiency of your oil furnace, which IÂd be willing to bet realistically isnÂt much better than 68%, and things change again of course. Now for every $2.49 youÂre spending youÂre getting about a $1.69 worth of usable heat. A nearly 10% difference on the down side from natural gas. Higher efficiency oil furnaces are out there which would save you money and you may be able to up that oil efficiency to 80 or 85%. Then youÂre going the other way. BUT - keep in mind, once again youÂre dealing with a fuel that few are conscientious enough to service properly, has more variables in terms of things going wrong and, like it or not , in my opinion will always give you that olfactory reminder that itÂs in your house. ThatÂs for now. But if our government and this current whacked out administration has itÂs way weÂll all be paying a fortune to keep our butts warm anyway according to our "carbon footprint". Relative to which yours may be larger. To spare you my opinion on that and to keep my blood pressure down, I'll stop right there! Hope that was some usefull information.

Michelle, What you call the motor is the oil burner itself and it is supposed to be that way. The smell of oil though is not. If you are continuing to get the smell every time it runs it is not set up right. Have your tech come by and set it up with his test equipment which he should have done to begin with. That smell is excessive oil getting into the chamber, either by a delayed ignition or running to rich which must be adjusted. If is not corrected it will soot up your furnace and will have to serviced anyway. These things do not improve with age. Also, have him check your draft, which is all part of settng up your equipment, to make sure you have enough so you don't get co2 in the house.

Remove 5/32 by pass plug for one pipe system and install pipe plug in return line. I would also remove and check the screen under the pump cover just to be safe. With a two pipe system the pump could be pulling about 4 times more oil then with a single pipe.