King 5500, only blows sideways. How to adjust.

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Rochev

Member
Dec 2, 2021
44
Maine
Year 3 with my 2007 King 5500M.
The issue is that there's no air flow adjustment. The warm air blows to the side and I'm wondering if anybody has figured out a method to keep it straight, like maybe adding some type of steel plate or something, somewhere.

I had to re-install the exhaust from a 3" with a bunch of 90° angles to a 4" that just goes straight out the wall. However in doing so, I had to turn the stove straight so now it's going to literally blow directly at the wall about 2' away.

I have a backup 2010 King stove in the cellar that does the same thing and there's no adjustment either...
 
not sure if im looking at the wrong pictures but to me the heat exchanger is at the front of the stove and hot air should be blowing strait out of that. Its a long shot but did someone replace the blower and wire it backwards or get one that has the wrong rotation and instead of sucking and blowing out the heat exchanger, its sucking from the heat exchanger and blowing out the side of the unit?