How to install a gasket seal on Weber Smokey Mountain
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- Weber Smokey Mountain is a very good smoker but the smoke leaks are just too much.
I have bought a gasket seal and I will show you how to install it.
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So what I'm getting from this is gaskets first before you ever light a fire. Glad I watched this before I go pick mine up this weekend
I have a Weber Smokey Mountain on order. Should get here in a few days. I've seen A LOT of comments where people have leak issues so I also ordered insulation stripping. I'll put the insulation on before I even use it so I don't have to clean it to the same extent as a used one. This was a great and useful video. Thanks for making it. It looks like this insulation helps a lot to keep smoke in.
Go to the Cajon Bandit website and see all kinds of goodies for the WSM.
@@fjimmel Yes, it's a great site. I'm thinking about getting a new door and possibly a rotisserie.
My wife bought me a smoky mountain and this was very helpful thanks a bunch 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Glat I could help, let me know how it goes!
This was the first thing I did before I fired mine up after I got one for a Christmas gift.
Looks great. Im doing the same thing on my Weber kettle. I am also picking a 18” Smokey mountain. Using the Lava Lock gasket for 22 kettle. Thanks for the tutorial!
Thank you for watching my videos! Glad you enjoyed it
I bought a Smokey Mountain and this is very helpful, thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Good video. I found it much easier to just use a razor blade to scrape the places for the gasket and then use a little acetone. Worked like a charm. Also if you use the gasket on the WSM instead of the door you can go all the way across the top and it will not interfere with the latch.
Thanks for you input. I have a brand new WSM 22" so I am starting out with a perfectly clean unit. Thanks for the door tip, to not apply to the door.
along with a gasket put on a new door, Cajon Bandit makes an excellent aftermarket door which is much more heavy duty than the original
That worked really well, great work 👍🤙
So 3 years later... how has this held up?
The crucial problem area is where the center section goes into the bottom. If air creeps into an out of round WSM, temps will be hard to control.
I justrvapplied a gasket 2 days ago and I'm certain that the smoke you thought was coming from the lid is actually the smoke from the handle sliding over that way I'd look at which way that smoke from the handle is going because I thought the same thing until I realized it wasn't coming from my lid...but it was coming from the handle and sliding around the side past the lid. It's very deceptive. Let me know if I'm correct. Nice video.
It was leaking everywhere, at the door and at the lid. After a few months, it leaks again at the lid but far less than before and the door is not leaking at all
Suggestion; easier to get new OE door instead of cleaning the old one. That door may have benefited from some minor flex bending.
I have bended the door a bit and it doesn't leak to much. I think a new door could also add more isolation.
So much modification you could do on this smokers... if only Weber would ship them with what we need!
@@frogsbbq5630 Yes, Weber could do better. I have no gaskets on my 18 WSM and get very little leaking of smoke out or extra air in. I wondered why. Maybe it is because my habit is to use the same "inexing" of the lid upon the barrel and the barrel upon the base section. I always put those pieces together in same "clocking" and the build-up of burning tends to "heal" the openings -- maybe. My theory anyway. Stay well.
Thanks for this!!!
Excelente video
Have you never tried to bend the door to the cylinder?
Yes I have done it and put the gasket, All fine now
I have a WSM ordered. Do all doors fit this poorly?🤨 If so it looks like a manufacturing problem that Weber should want to correct in order to keep their reputation for quality.
i just bought 1 and mine leaks in the same places.
Weber should include these gaskets free at no cost
Have a doubt, if i want to take the temp up to 325 or even 400 f, could the gasket interfere with it? Because most of the time i cook at 225 but i still want to cook some things at 325 or higher. I use 22.5 wsm
The gasket will not help getting to these temperatures. I found that 325 is hard get, 400 near impossible
@@frogsbbq5630 thanks for the answer, better i leave it like it is
you need to order a door from cajon bandit and that will take care of that problem
I have twisted it and with the gasket it did the trick.
Thanks for the advice. I will get one if I see that it is leaking again
Damn, you're going to burn the place down.