How to Easily Clean, Restore your Gas Grill
Cleaning your grill regularly adds years to the life of the grill. But even if you’ve let it go a few years, new parts are easy to install to restore your gas grill as good as new. I let my grill go 10 years without cleaning it and was able to refurbish following the steps below using common, household products to clean while replacing old parts with new.
Jump to InstructionsHow to Restore Weber Gas Grill
Simple guide for restoring your gas grill like new. From cleaning to replacing old parts.
Materials
New Parts
- Flavorizer Bars
- Burner Tubes
- Igniter
- Drip Pan
- Grill Grates
Cleaning Supplies
- Dawn Dish Soap
- Cleaning Brush
- Scour pad sponge
- Grill Brush
- Cleaning Vinegar regular vinegar works too
- 2 Storage Bins
- Nitrile Gloves
Tools
- Putty Knife
- Steel Brush or Steel Wool
- Screw Driver
- Wrench
- Shop Vacuum
- Tarp
- 5 Gallon Bucket
- Garden Hose & Nozzle
Instructions
Clean out Grill
- Mix Dish Soap with Warm Water in Storage Bin for soaking parts
- Remove Grill Grates (soak if keeping, or discard if replacing)
- Remove Flavorizor Bars (soak if keeping, or discard if replacing)
- Remove Igniter box from grill and remove cables from igniter box.
- Remove Control Knobs and Control Panel, Soak in Soap Bath
- Remove Igniter Cable from Burner Tube
- Remove Burner Tubes
- Clean out debris from grill. Mine had a lot of built up, so I used a shop vac to clean out. If there is not a lot of debris you can push through to drip pan instead of vacuuming.
- Remove Drip Tray. Toss debris in 5 Gallon Bucket.
- Scrape drip tray and pan. Use putty knife to scrape out Metal Drip Pan Holder. Place metal drip pan holder in soap bath
- Replace drip tray to catch grease from next step.
- Scrape out inside base of Grill. Use Putty Knife to scrape out inside of the grill. Use steel brush for corners/tight edges. Use cleaning brush to clean out additional flakes of grime.
- Scrape out inside lid of Grill. Use Putty Knife, steel brush and cleaning brush to clean out the top of the grill.
- Empty drip tray into 5 gallon bucket. Tip – The Tarp helps catch grease that falls to the ground and prevent staining your patio or driveway.
- Vacuum grease and debris from inside base of the Grill.
Wash the Grill
- Mix equal parts vinegar and dish soap in bucket of warm water. The vinegar is acidic and helps cut through the grease on grill.
- Wash inside Grill. Use Scrub brush to wash inside of grill
- Wash Outside Grill. Use Scrub brush to wash outside of the grill.
- Rinse & Repeat as Needed. Use hose to spray suds off grill and repeat brushing as needed until grease is gone and grill is sparkling clean.
- Scrub parts that were in soap bath. Use scrub brush to scrub grill grates, Control Panel and Knobs, and Drip Pan that have been soaking in soap bath.
- Rinse clean in clean water storage bin. After scrubbing each part, rinse clean in the clean water bath.
Rebuild Grill.
- Install new Burner Tubes. Tip – practice piecing together first outside of grill so you know how to install correctly before fastening to grill. Fasten to Grill. When fastening to the grill, these bolt onto the back inside of the grill. See my YouTube video on how to install if you can't remove the back bolts due to corrosion.
- Connect Igniter to Control Panel. Install the igniter on the control panel by clicking the igniter switch into the control panel.
- Connect Igniter Cable on Burner Tube. The cable should easily click onto the tube.
- Install Control Panel. Slide control panel onto holding brackets making sure to thread igniter cable through to inside grill base. Fasten Control Panel with screws to secure panel to grill.
- Install Igniter. If installing new igniter, follow instructions for installing battery to the igniter unit.Connect igniter cables to igniter unit. Follow cable color coding to connect cables to correct location.Fasten Igniter Unit to the Grill using provided screws.
- Test Igniter.Reconnect propane tank and turn nob to open gas flow. Turn control knobs to ignite position. Push igniter switch to start grill. Flame should now be a cool blue and ignite after a couple clicks .
- Replace Metal Drip Pan Holder. Put metal drip pan holder back into its holding place. Insert new aluminum drip pan tray.
- Replace Drip Tray. Put drip tray back into place.
- Replace Flavorizer Bars. Place Flavorizer bars back into place.
- Replace Grill Grates. Place Grill Grates back into place.
Tips to go Full Dad Mode on your Grill Cleaning Project
- Use Vinegar to cut grease. The acidity helps to easily remove grease from the grill.
- How to tell if you need to replace your burner tubes: Look for yellow flames, they should be blue.
- Drop Tarp. Use a tarp to catch and prevent grease from hitting the ground as you clean the grill. This prevents staining your patio, deck or driveway.
Now that your grill is clean, check out some of my recipes and guides, like how to smoke crispy chicken wings and this delicious pork shoulder recipe.
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Britt
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