Hi everyone -
This past spring I was on the lookout for an old weber to restore with my dad, as I had done one before and he loved. I searched craigslist for weeks without any luck and finally came across and pretty beat up genesis 1000 on the side of the road and threw it in the truck. After tearing it apart, I realized this thing was going to need pretty much everything new, but I figured it was a good project for my dad and I to do together so I wasn't too worried about the money aspect of it.
We ended up putting in new grates, flavorizer bars, burners, regulator, ignition, bottom tray rails and a couple other things I'm forgetting - I've attached pics. I should mention I also took apart the valves and gleaned them thoroughly and reinstalled (they weren't bouncing back up when pushed down and were full of gunk).
My concern is that the grill is not getting nearly as hot as I would have expected. Also, there is a faint smell of propane when it's fire up. The initial burner fires up and then when turning on the middle it doesn't usually light, however the back one does.
When I put the grill together everything went smoothly however the regulator (#62565) and hose connectors didn't want to go into the manifold. That is the recommended replacement part so not sure why that is the case.
Please let me know any thoughts you may have - we put a ton of time into this grill so I'm hoping to get it running properly for him!
Thanks
Joe
This past spring I was on the lookout for an old weber to restore with my dad, as I had done one before and he loved. I searched craigslist for weeks without any luck and finally came across and pretty beat up genesis 1000 on the side of the road and threw it in the truck. After tearing it apart, I realized this thing was going to need pretty much everything new, but I figured it was a good project for my dad and I to do together so I wasn't too worried about the money aspect of it.
We ended up putting in new grates, flavorizer bars, burners, regulator, ignition, bottom tray rails and a couple other things I'm forgetting - I've attached pics. I should mention I also took apart the valves and gleaned them thoroughly and reinstalled (they weren't bouncing back up when pushed down and were full of gunk).
My concern is that the grill is not getting nearly as hot as I would have expected. Also, there is a faint smell of propane when it's fire up. The initial burner fires up and then when turning on the middle it doesn't usually light, however the back one does.
When I put the grill together everything went smoothly however the regulator (#62565) and hose connectors didn't want to go into the manifold. That is the recommended replacement part so not sure why that is the case.
Please let me know any thoughts you may have - we put a ton of time into this grill so I'm hoping to get it running properly for him!
Thanks
Joe