Gasket seeping a good bit, it was pretty hard too. Wire wheeled the area and it wasn't heavily pitted. Hopefully this summer should take off the covers and do a better clean
It's a good thing I took apart the coupling, BOTH ends of the tube were SHOT!
Replaced it with PVC, unfortunately not much room to work! I had to slide the auger underneath the stoker and out through a hole in the partition wall into the next room to get it out! (super crappy picture)
Needed 66" for the 2-3 flights of auger protruding so I made two 33" pieces and connected them with a homemade coupler, worked perfectly and now next time shouldn't have to cut anything to get them apart.
The manual says something about a packing material in between these gaps? What do you suggest?
Yes, I haven't forgotten about this! So important!
I did remove and clean the baffles and heat transfer sections, the permanent post links in the stoker boiler page were VERY helpful!!
Anything I should be doing since switching FROM oil on this unit? I just took the nozzle out. One manual on the EFM site said about closing the damper/cover plate to protect the oil gun but this unit didn't appear to have one. I don't think they'll ever be going back to oil since they have a really good HWH for summer.