Step 15

Add cooking box

You will need: frame assembly, cooking box assembly, 1/4-20 x 2 inch bolt, nylon washer, 1/4-20 keps nut, pliers and a 7/16 inch wrench.

Set the cooking box into the frame so the burner tubes are under the frame brace. Figure 17.

Burner tubes

Frame brace

Figure 17

Your Weber Gas Barbecue burner assembly has been factory assembled, pressure and flame tested. As a safety precaution we recommend you check the burner alignment:

a)Do the valves fit into the ends of the burners? Figure 19 (a).

b)Are the ends of the burners under the washers at the left rear and left front of the cooking box? The screws are only guides. Do not tighten.

Figure 19 (b).

c)Are the wing nuts under the burner assembly hand tight? Do not tighten with pliers. Figure 19 (c).

If you answered YES to a, b and c, the burners are correctly aligned. If you answered NO, the burners are misaligned. Contact Weber-Stephen Customer Service. Do not use your barbecue.

Guide screw

(b)

(a)

Slide the cooking box to the left within the frame. Put the washer on the bolt. Insert the bolt through the cooking box and frame with the head of the bolt outside the box. Figure 18. Add the keps nut. Tighten by holding the bolt with pliers while you tighten the nut with the 7/16 inch wrench.

Figure 19

Figure 18

View from

(c)below cooking

box

Wing nuts

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5500 specifications

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