Thanx for the help. Great forum, I was lost. Thanx to everybody that helped. Think its working right now. Know more in the morning. The guy I bought it from should have gotten some help from this site, glad he didnt find it cuz I bought it at a great price.

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Sorry had to go to work, just got home.

There should be a piece of aluminum hose between the rear wall to the fire pot. Pictured below. You can buy the hose at your local auto store, same type used from air breather to manifold on vehicles. Also there is a cap under the fire pot that needs to be removed.

Well there is another problem solved. I'll have to get that in there and remove the cap. I used a piece of 2" flexible exhaust pipe for my air intake now need to go back to auto parts and find the other piece. Once again THANX

Yup, without the flexible exhaust pipe hooked up to the FAK and the firepot cold air is rushing into the stove body. You are also pulling cold air through the house to feed the fire through the manual draft. If the round plug behind the firepot is removed already then some of the air is being pulled through it, just that a lot of it is flowing around inside the stove where it shouldn't.
A small but major thing to check also is the stove clean behind the fake firebrick wall and the holes on top cleared? If not the hot air won't flow through the heat exchanger. You may need to bang on the walls to get any crud that's built up from the prior owner. Brush behind it also to make sure it's clean.

You are also pulling cold outside air into the room blower, it is only a couple inches away from the FAK, so some of that 20 to 30 degree air was being blown into your house.

The holes behind the fire board look like this:



I have plugs in mine you get them at local hardware they are 1 1/2 plugs for electric breaker boxes, I just remove them when cleaning behind wall and then reinstall them. They are not necessary but seem to increase air temp a little when installed.



When I took off the FAK cap under the fire pot I found I had to much draft, FirePotPete adjusted his by changing the draft settings. I adjusted mine by drilling 3 holes in the same size freeze plug from auto parts store and reinstalling it. I then use slide to fine tune fire. The Freeze plug size is 2 7/64. This is one of my failed attempts at drilling 3 straight 3/8 inch holes in the cap.



Does your stove have the slide damper? If it does make sure you remove the two screws on the inside so you can close it all the way. They are there to prevent you from closing it all the way or pulling it completely out. Previous owner might have removed these already.