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If you can't get it to light with ether or with a shot from the bleed valve, it almost has to be an ignition problem. A lot of them are thermal or vibration intermittent problems.
You'd think he'd have seen that in the winter first, though. Did you do long run testing (or long runs) in winter? What kind of vaporizer (if any) does the LP system use?
When you say 'gradually slows down' do you mean that it starts sputtering, gets worse and worse, and eventually quits, or more like it is slowly being throttled down? If the former, I'd wonder about a thermal intermittent failure of either the coil or a condenser. If the latter, I'd say you've...