Ed Ward
New member
Hello again ya'll! I wanted to wait to find the right forum to post my questions and concerns I hope I hit the right one. I picked up an E310 Genesis last week. I spent a couple of hours cleaning it up and it seems to be functionally operational. My biggest concern is/was even gas flow. So when I first cleaned it up I took it apart, down to the gas tubes. Then I ran my wire brush over the tubes until the rust was gone and they were shiny again. I then used my air compressor to blow the debris, soot and dust out of the tubes. After reassembling I fired the grill up. It was making popping noise like the gas was sputtering. It was just like when the propane is low and it starts stuttering as the last bit of gas burns off. So I grabbed a new tank and tried again, and the same thing happened, it's sputtering. I looked on YouTube (I Used YouTube while waiting for approval to join here) I learned the gas manifold valves probably needed cleaning. I disassembled to the valves and they were pretty crusty. I used brake cleaner to knock all the crud off and finished cleaning them with a small wire brush. They looked fantastic when I put everything back together. Fired the grill up, same thing. More reading lead to a bad regulator and hose. So I tried finding one online to no avail. I was afraid to order one online because the fitting on mine has reducer from the manifold it's 1/4" and at the hose end it's 3/4" and I could not tell if the online hoses were the right spec. All in all it was to much information that Amazon didn't bother disclosing about their product. That left me with our local Lowes. I go to Lowes and get all excited when I find they have some Weber products. OF course nothing like what I needed. I cobbled together a hose and added a regulator to it and left it at that. I get home reconnect everything using propane plumbers tape and fire her up. It works much better but I cannot see a flame? I see the gas when it ignites off and the metal gas tube kind of changes color slightly so I know it's getting gas to all three lines but I physcially cannot see any gas. Is this normal does a clean running grill not have a visible flame? I read where you don't want orange or red flames so I thought maybe I'd see blue? I don't know what I'm looking for or what the expectation should be? I've been thinking on this for several days but having never owned a Weber I'm not sure if this is the way it suppose to be? So my telling everyone all of this was to ask a couple of basic questions.
1. IS the gas functioning properly? For the record the only hose I could find was 10' that had the right fitting to connect to the manifold.
2. Should I be seeing a flame?
I decided to replace the igniter. I found one on Amazon that was "for Weber" they even had the right gas knob. I get the thing and the double AA battery does not fit in the battery well? I ended up sending it back I think I'll just look for specific Weber parts moving forward.
Anyway thanks for taking a few minutes out of your day to read this lengthy post. I would appreciate any input, advice or thoughts on the gas situation. Cheers, everyone have a great weekend!
1. IS the gas functioning properly? For the record the only hose I could find was 10' that had the right fitting to connect to the manifold.
2. Should I be seeing a flame?
I decided to replace the igniter. I found one on Amazon that was "for Weber" they even had the right gas knob. I get the thing and the double AA battery does not fit in the battery well? I ended up sending it back I think I'll just look for specific Weber parts moving forward.
Anyway thanks for taking a few minutes out of your day to read this lengthy post. I would appreciate any input, advice or thoughts on the gas situation. Cheers, everyone have a great weekend!