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This product is well made and has flexible pipes. However, it does not fit all grills. If you have one of the older $99 Charbroil grills from Lowes, you will find that more than likely the holes to insert the tubes will be too small. Others have complained about this. I made mine bigger with some tin snips, it mangled the holes but I got the tubes to go through.

Does seem to work fine despite not initially fitting through the holes.

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I bought this CHARBROIL UNIVERSAL burner to replace the burner on my CHARBROIL grill. I guess when I bought it I believed "universal" to mean that it would replace all 17 inch burners...especially CHARBROIL ones, since it is the SAME COMPANY. I was wrong. The venturi pipe is too large to go through the hole in my grill. When I called Charbroil to discuss this with them, they told me that "universal" only means "most." Chances are, this will not fit your grill. Avoid it.

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Mine is not a Char-Broil branded BBQ, so I had my doubts, however it was very easy to assembly and set and works splendid since the very first time. Took me less than 10 minutes since I open the package until I turned it on and only needed a phillips screwdriver. The gas pipes are flexible and can be adjusted in length and can be twisted to reach the gas valves. Only hope it lasts as long as the original burner.

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This most certainly is not "universal" as the advertising and the packaging state. I bought it for my bottom-of-the-line Char-Broil brand grill, so you'd think it would fit its own brand. But the nozzle collars at the end of the flexible tubing coming from the burner will not fit through the diameter of the holes at the bottom of the flame box in order to meet the gas feeder lines coming from below. Just barely so frustrating! Unfortunately, I mangled it too much trying to jerry-rig it to fit, so now I can't even return it. One of the few Amazon products I have purchased over the years that has been mis-represented.

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My 1997 Char-Broil Model 4637633 worked well with this universal burner. The only problem I had was when I attached the igniter assembly to the center of the burner; the mounting holes in the new burner were too large for the #6 pan head screws provided. I substituted some #8 screws I had in stock and the problem was solved.

Burner works well. It does look a bit on the cheap side but certainly was worth the $16 price. Sure there is a 3 year warranty but who is going to pay $10 for shipping these to the factory for warranty service? My old burner (same exact style) lasted about 3 years.

Note that there was a less expensive option available (about $11) for people who didn't feel they needed to replace their flexible venturi tubes. My old tubes were in great shape so I opted to take them off and save for some future day. Unfortunately, although the tubes were in good shape, I found on my old burner that the essential high temperature gaskets between the tubes and the burner were both broken and might not have been gas-tight if I'd been planning to reuse them. My advice is to spend the extra $5 and get the complete $16 replacement kit like I did on this purchase.