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See for yourself:

"This grill can be used with both LP (liquid propane) and natural gas and comes equipped with a high-capacity hose/regulator assembly for connection to a standard 20-lb. low pressure tank (tank included)."

I saw that you had converted your Virco to NG. How was the procedure? Was it easy? Did u get a new regulator for it? I called the Virco Associate and ordered the conversion kit and the Rep said the kit does not come with a NG regulator. What else do we have to buy if we want to do the conversion? Please let me know the (detail) procedure and any additional parts that we need. Thanks.

I personally didn't use a regulator. Some people feel it is helpful in maintaining a certain pressure, but I haven't seen a need for one. I installed a gas pool heater a couple of years ago and didn't put one on there either, no problems with that. After all, I think that is one thing the gas meter does for all of your appliances anyway.

The kit that you will get from Virco should contain all new valves with the orifices in them already. I am not sure why they do that, the valves seem the same and the orifices just screw in. You will also get a new "cage" for the side burner that mounts underneath it. The easiest way, for me at least, was to first remove the knobs from the front of the grill (after of course turning off, disconnecting, and removing the lp tank). Then, if you look under the edge of the control panel, you will need to undo the lp hose, the fitting for the side burner, and the fitting for the rear burner. Once you remove these, then disassemble the ignitors. This is done by simply unscrewing the buttons and removing the batteries, then unscrew the plastic nuts that hold the ignitor assemblies to the front panel, remove the assemblies from the rear of the panel and let hang. Now, you can remove the four screw (two on each end) of the front panel, and the panel will come off.
With the panel off you can now replace the valves. You will need to disassemble the side burner to replace that orifice, it is pretty strait forward. The rear burner orifice needs to be replaced as well. Just remove the cover on the rear of the bbq (two screws). I Hope this helps, I am sure you will find it easy.

Sounds like a piece of cake. Except Charbroil grills tend to be less powerful than grills like the Virco. I wonder if a 3/8" fitting allows enough gas to get to the grill for all three main burners (60,000 BTU) but I guess if you say it's ok, it's ok ;-).

Technimac,
The one end of the Charbroil hose is 3/8" flare fitting, which fits right where the LP hose is now on your grill. The other end is a quick disconnect fitting which has female 3/8" pipe threads. The 1/2" I was referring to is the standard size that most stubs might be if you already have one. I didn't have a line run, but I ran a 1/2" line in my basement about 25' to the outside wall, then came through the siding with a six inch strait piece. Outside I used an "elbow" pointing down. The elbow was also a reducer, one end with 1/2" pipe threads, the other with 3/8" pipe threads, then I just used a short 1" piece of 3/8" pipe, threaded on both ends, to go into the elbow, then the quick disconnect fitting that came with the hose simply attaches there on the short nipple. All joints received a generous supply of teflon pipe tape and plenty of torque. After I was complete, I turned the gas back on to my house and checked all the joints with a soapy water solution in a spray bottle. If there is a leak, the gas will "blow a bubble" in the solution.

Hope this helps, good luck.

thanks so much for the detailed procedure. So we have to disconnect and remove the LP regulator and its hose and replace the NG hose with it, no regulator needed (kind of dumb question but I have never play with any kind of GAS before).

You deserve the CGE title more than that obnoxious self proclaimed person. :P

Again, thanks.