Empire wall furnace pushing down the pilot button trying to light the pilot found too much gas flowing

You may have a bad thermocouple. This is a device that when it gets hot (usually from the pilot light) enough it sends a signal (allows conductivity) which allows the heater to stay lit when switched into the 'heat' or functional mode.
It's a common safety element in all gas furnaces and stoves to ensure that the pilot says lit and no gas can escape in case it somehow extinguishes.

Clean the hole of the pilot light and clean the metal where the spark comes from and goes to. Could be bad igniter though.Mine here iffy, so I just light it with a long match while holding down the button in pilot mode. don-ohio (:^)

on the bottom of the unit there is an access door remove it and behind it you will find a gas valve and a pilot find the piolot......turn off the gas valve and move the selector to piolot depress the switch and at the same time place the flame from a log lighter onto the pilot light after this lights turn the gas valve to run and the burner should light.

It could be several things: Is the Control Knob turned from Pilot to ON? If that is the case, wait a few minutes after turning it to ON. That will allow the Thermopile to heat up sufficiently. Be sure the flame is touching the Thermopile. If everything looks correct turn up your Thermostat to higher than the ambient room temperature and see if the burners light. Remember to turn your Wall Thermostat down to the lowest temperature setting before turning the knob from Pilot to ON.

FYI - That Wall Furnace does not have a Thermocouple. It uses a Thermopile instead to generate millivolts of electricity to open the gas valve and maintain the pilot flame.

If it is the Thermopile, you can order it directly from Empire Comfort Systems, as well as download your Owners Manual at www.empirecomfort.com

Not sure what the problem is, but mine does the same thing.It also blows the pilot light out when it does it..Had several service calls, no luck...POS, don't buy another Empire heater....

It sounds like the gas valve is dropping out. Make sure the system is venting the exhaust(no restrictions). Then make sure all your wiring connections in the unit are tight. In a millivolt system if all wiring connections aren't tight and clean your circuit will drop in millivolts and the gas valve will drop out. The gas valve requires a certain millivolt to stay open. I hope I was of some assistance!! Good luck!!

what is the model # for the furnace. You are going to have to change the pilot orofice and gas valve for natural gas also.

I have tried to light my empire wall furnace by pressing the button and I have the gas on and it won't light

Look for dust and lint. Look for them in places where gas should be freely flowing. I had a similar problem with an Empire Corcho wall-mounted propane ceramic catalyst heater. First it was the pilot light, then the #2 ceramic mantle. After horsing around with the gas lines and pressure regulators and trying to re-aim the pilot, it all turned out to be dust and lint in the gas passages. A little dust bunny in the brass pilot tube gave me a pilot light the shape and color of a banana. One puff of compressed air, and I got back my razor-sharp pilot. And some dust in the chimney of the #2 burner kept it burning blue/yellow and blistering paint off the upper surfaces of the heater. A bit of cleaning with a shop-vac put that right. "Passive" heaters are very much prone to this sort of problem because they rely on convection currents (i.e. LOW velocity) to get the job done. Convection currents are notorious dust collectors, as in COBWEB CITY.

I have a Williams top vent gravity wall furnace (model 5009622) and I had the same problem. I had to take the cover off the furnace -- screw on top and two at the bottom (open the access door and there is one screw on each side) to get to the reset button for the vent safety shutoff system. On my furnace it's on the left side toward the top of the unit. I pressed the little red reset button and it's been working ever since. If your furnace is properly installed and doesn't have bird's nest in the chimney, it should work fine. Good luck!