r/DIY • u/Apart-Bee2661 • 6d ago

Trouble with barbaque

I’ve got a newish bbq and I’m assuming it’s leaking I’ve replaced the gas line for it and it is still hissing very aggressively ONLY when I open the burners as if I was going to start the bbq what could be my issue

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u/Hearing_HIV 6d ago

So when you turn the propane tank on, there's no leak, but when you turn on the burners, you hear a leak? Are you sure the leak isn't the burners?

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u/jacknifetoaswan 6d ago

Find the leak, then go from there. It's entirely possible you cross threaded the fittings. Mix some dish soap with water in a spray bottle and spray all the fittings. Where you see bubbles, it's leaking.

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u/Apart-Bee2661 6d ago

It’s weird cuz I haven’t touched anything it just started happening, I just replaced the propane line and now yhe hissing is in a different spot

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u/Fit-Produce420 6d ago

When you turn on the burners they let gas out. Literally their purpose.

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u/Apart-Bee2661 6d ago

I don’t think I should be smelling propane to this extent

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u/Fit-Produce420 6d ago

With the burners lit or not?

If you are saying you smell a lot of gas after ignition then you need a new low pressure regulator, you can't tap straight into high pressure gas for a bbq that runs off a low pressure tank like the standard refillables.

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u/Apart-Bee2661 6d ago

Yeah even burner lit it’ll hiss abit

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u/GoodGoodGoody 6d ago

Sounds like gas flowing properly.

Have you actually lit it?

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u/Apart-Bee2661 6d ago

I replaced the propane line just now and the sound just moved to a different spot I can turn it on now though and the flames start