A couple questions

[QuadUser]

Very experienced in handling my quads. Upon firing it up I noticed this year that there is some smoke coming into the room, way more than just a puff when it ignites. I do have a quad trekker. And I'm not sure if this is an issue, but I notice the pellets igniting right away not later after they all drop. Not sure if this is normal for the trekker as I have only had this model for a year now. Is it possible a seal has been broken somewhere in the exhaust. I had it professionally installed and it just elbows out to the wall.

Second question is after cleaning the exhaust fan at the end of the season like quad recommends, when you re tighten the nuts for the fan onto the rubber gasket how tight should I tighten the screws? Just tight enough or kinda super tight?

Ty.

 

[ARC]

Just tight enough or kinda super tight?

Just tight enough not super tight if you try to go super tight you will strip the sheet metal screw holes, remember you are really only screwing two pieces of sheet metal together with a gasket between. Also if you can use a silicone gasket made for your stove instead of the "paper" insulation gasket that sometimes comes with new blower. The silicone gasket can be reused for years and the "paper gasket you will be lucky to get two years use when cleaning yearly. I feel you also get a better seal with the silicone gasket but that is just me.

 

[QuadUser]

Just tight enough not super tight if you try to go super tight you will strip the sheet metal screw holes, remember you are really only screwing two pieces of sheet metal together with a gasket between. Also if you can use a silicone gasket made for your stove instead of the "paper" insulation gasket that sometimes comes with new blower. The silicone gasket can be reused for years and the "paper gasket you will be lucky to get two years use when cleaning yearly. I feel you also get a better seal with the silicone gasket but that is just me.

So, this is what I found out. Last april when I took the exhaust fan out to clean out that area, I over tightened the fan to the silicone gasket. It made it not fit perfectly flush anymore. Also pushed down the gasket too much. This unevenness caused a sucking thing to happen which was keeping 5 percent of the smoke back into the room because there were small gaps in the seating of the fan. So today I ordered a new gasket and leveled out the torquing I did and its a lot less smoke but not perfect. So, when I get the gasket, I will tweak it some more, but it was me over tightening the fan to the gasket all along. So much for try to keep my stove clean...lol