So my heat went out towards the end of winter. It was blowing cold air and with a little investigation I realized the pilot light is out. I was like "SWEET!", all I need to do is relight it and we're good to go. That worked for about a day and I was back up there relighting it (Note: Occasionally this can be the only problem, high winds or other random things can cause the pilot light to be blown out).
I had a guy come look at it and said the whole unit needed to be replaced. Hard to argue with that since it's like 30 years old, but I wasn't ready to bite off that if I didn't absolutely have to.
With some research, one of the main causes of this is a bad thermocouple. I don't know a whole lot about HVAC stuff, but I watched a youtube video on how to replace one. It was probably the easiest DIY project ever. I bought a 10 dollar replacement part at my local hardware store and BOOM! Fixed.
Search around youtube and find one that looks similar to yours:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j29RILOGOU
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