Help me with my side burner


 
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Jason Neumann

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I have an early 90s model Genesis with a side burner. The side burner lights up then in 15 seconds back drafts back to the adjustment knob. Any feedback would be great thanks!
 
Had this happen at a rental house in FL a while back. There was a grill sitting out by the pool (can't remember the make - not a Weber). Decided to do a little cook and lit off one of the burners. It kind of lit but then the flame backed up and came out all around the control panel in front. I quickly shut off the tank valve (knob had too much flame coming out around it). No damage.

I had minimal tools in the car (we drove down there from MA) but was able to take the burner tubes out and clean them. Each one had a spider in it - no spider guards. In fact, the grill had spiders hiding in a lot of places. Grill worked nicely after that.
 
I picked up a Silver C last week and the guy insisted on firing it up. I never ask them to fire up the grills I buy. I figure I will have to check it over anyway during the rehab half the parts may be different by the time I get it back together. Well, the side burner had a flame about 6" high, tall, skinny and all yellow. I just figured the venturi was clogged by dirt or bugs. He seemed to think it was normal though. He had to light the side burner and burners in the cook box by hand because the igniter was toast and each cook box burner had to be lit seperately because the crossover was essentially gone and the burners had holes in them. It had flames shooting every where, but he seemed to figure if there was fire somewhere, it was working "Great". OH well. I am putting the grill back together now after the rehab and am interested to see if I got that side burner closer to working correctly.
 
Bruce said:
I picked up a Silver C last week and the guy insisted on firing it up. I never ask them to fire up the grills I buy. I figure I will have to check it over anyway during the rehab half the parts may be different by the time I get it back together. Well, the side burner had a flame about 6" high, tall, skinny and all yellow. I just figured the venturi was clogged by dirt or bugs. He seemed to think it was normal though. He had to light the side burner and burners in the cook box by hand because the igniter was toast and each cook box burner had to be lit seperately because the crossover was essentially gone and the burners had holes in them. It had flames shooting every where, but he seemed to figure if there was fire somewhere, it was working "Great". OH well. I am putting the grill back together now after the rehab and am interested to see if I got that side burner closer to working correctly.
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Similar story happened to me a couple weeks ago and I learned a lesson.

The guy insisted on “showing me how to light it”. I told him it’s fine, he doesn’t have to but he insisted, which I thought was odd. Now I understand why though…

He said: “I leave the lid down”.
“Then I turn the gas on for all 3 burners, then wait a couple seconds”.

Now I’m thinking, great, we’re going to explode; death by fireball explosion.

“Then I light it!”

WOOOOOSH WOOOOOSH WOOOOOSH

We didn’t die but the fireball under that lid must have been something.

Anyways once I got home I realized the crossover tube was completely destroyed, so he was essentially just using the gas buildup under the closed lid to let the fireball ignite all 3 burners at once.

Always interesting people I meet out there.
 
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