Genesis E-310 rebuild
It's time. My 2011 Genesis 3 burner is blowing yellow gas, the flavorizer bars are about shot, and the cast iron grill grates are getting pretty narrow. Does anyone have any particular tips on rebuild, or any tips on "discount" suppliers for parts?
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I've rebuilt my older Genesis, my Silver A a couple of times and my sisters-in-law weber gasser. Very easy to do and much cheaper than buying a new one. Recommend checking out the Virtual Weber Bullet website since it is a website devoted to Weber's (link below). Also linked the site I used to buy parts.
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I'll second the grillparts.com website. I got parts to rebuild my 2002 Genesis Silver A once or twice from there. Weber themselves doesn't offer all the parts on grills that are 20 years old, but I had no issues getting burners, flavorizer bars, grates, and the entire grease collection system from them. Now the grill lives at my daughter's house, and will hopefully offer many more years of service.Comment
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Not really a budget recommendation, but the cost of the cast iron grates is a pretty good down payment on stainless. My first gasser came with cast grates, and I replaced them with stainless, one of the best upgrades I've done to anything, imho.Comment
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This is a good way to go, but I would sign up for their email list and wait for a sale. They also have factory second sales several times a year that can get you the size panels you need for a fraction of the cost of a new set. I've bought the seconds several times and never really spotted a flaw with any of them.Originally posted by outta_ammo View Post
I have full sets of Grillgrates for a 2002 Genesis Silver A, a 2019 Genesis II E-410, and for the Weber kettle, and have been using them since about 2017. I've had kind of a love/hate relationship with Grillgrates.
Things I like about Grillgrates:
1. They block flareups and eliminate hot spots on both gas and charcoal grills. I used to have a grease fire every time I did burgers for the 4th of July on my old Genesis. With Grillgrates that became a thing of the past.
2. They let me use the full cooking grate (1 zone) on my Weber kettle, without needing to do 2-zone for big cooks of burgers or chicken.
3. The flat side is great for smash burgers and griddle cooking of larger items - you aren't gonna do scrambled eggs or rice on it due to the holes though.
4. The grill body on my Genesis and Genesis II stay much cleaner due to the fact debris isn't falling into the bottom of the grill and burning.
Things I hate about Grillgrates:
1. They can be a PITA to clean. The best solution here is their special brush and the "grate tool" and detailing tool. But their brush that scrapes down in the rails rusts and is shot in a season, despite claiming to be stainless. The basic technique is to run hot for a few minutes, brush towards the back, scrape top of rails, then use grate tool to shovel out carbon/debris from the rails, tossing in the trash or out in the yard.
2. They are NOT good for indirect heat cooking, and have to be removed or at least a gap created if you need to do 2 zone cooking on the grill equipped with them. It's because they block the heat and conduct/spread it through the interlocked panels.
3. I had a really bad grease fire UNDER the Grillgrate panels on my 2019 Genesis II E-410, during the pre-heat on high for a cook. I went outside 10 minutes after turning the grill on, with 2 steaks, and there was black smoke and flames shooting out of the grill. I killed the propane and let it go out. It was bad enough to warp and melt two Grillgrate panels, and the cast aluminum body on one end of a 2 year old Weber 4 burner gas grill was warped so badly you could not close the lid once it was opened. I had to replace two panels in a 7 panel set of Grillgrates for that grill, and I had to work with wooden blocks and C-clamps to bend the body of the grill back in enough to close the lid again. Ever since, I've been kinda gun-shy on keeping the full replacement set of Grillgrates on there, and tend to keep one of the 3 original grates in there along with some Grillgrate panels, as I feel like the amount of heat trapped below the Grillgrates is what caused damage to the body of the Weber gas grill.
On hate issue #3, I had deep cleaned the grill recently, and only had ONE cook on it prior to this grease fire. Unfortunately, that one cook had been Korean kalbi/galbi (short ribs), grilled hot and fast, after being in a marinade overnight. It had been a hot and fast cook and I had turned the grill off without a burn off after the cook. So the grease under the grates was left over from that one cook - and I presume was the source of the fire. Regardless, if I had been using the conventional grates that came with the grill, I don't think I would have seen damage to the body of the grill, because the fire and heat wouldn't have been trapped down there like it was.
Anyway, I caution everyone to keep a close eye on pre-heating gas grills when equipped with a full replacement set of Grillgrates, ever since this incident.Comment
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Your time and thoughts are much appreciated. Here's what i did:
I disassembled the grill. The gas tubes were fine, just needed a bit of brushing with a 12 gauge shotgun brush to remove some schumutz.
I ordered new stock flavorizer bars and stainless steel grates from grillparts.com.
About them: The website was very easy to navigate. The price was resonable, stock weber parts so good quality, and shipping was timely. I also picked up a new grill light..hopefully it is superior to the previous weber model.
A couple of cooks after, I'm back in business and I have a new supplier whom I'll patronize some more as I need to.
I chose to not do the grillgrates...I've a campchef griddle for flat surface and pizza steel cooking, I clean fairly frequently to avoid flareups because I gas grill a lot of skin-on chicken, and I do 2-zone a lot for chicken and pork shoulder "ribs". And, well, after all these years I'm used to a grill. I think I'll like the stainless grill over the cast iron.
Cheers, guys, thanks again for your thoughts.
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