For your pressure regulator it is necessary to check that the small piston slides freely in its bore.
Freely it's not too much the word.
Must still force a little to push it.
I will dismount and see that.
1) pre-purge the combustion chamber for 10-20seconds. (If a flame appears during this time, the burner will be safe). There is also precompression of the pump to 3-5bars and often (but not always) ignition of the electrodes.
2) opening of the magnetic valve, mounted at operating pressure 10-15bars (depending on settings), and firing the fuel oil.
It looks like what I have.
I have no flame, it is not likely there is no oil outlet nozzle.
Detail that may have been important: the failure happened just after the firefighter valve was inadvertently dropped
As for the auto gauge, a test beast:
return 5L of gasoline to the tank; if it starts, it's because the gauge is kidding
The test was done it does not work better