" Time and weather can damage the elements of your outdoor grill. Here's how to give your grill real clean. First make sure that the propane tank is turned off. Remove the old cooking grills. Gas grills either have flavor bars or lava rocks to evenly disperse the heat this real has flavor bars which are starting to rust through. In neither case replacements are easily available. Using a shot back. Vacuum out the debris it's collected on the bottom of the grill. With a paint scraper to scrape off the baked on gun and vacuumed away. Until the sides in the bottom are clean. You can also use steel wool and so open warm water depending on how much effort you want to put into. Next we'll clean the burners with a brass wire brush brass wire brushes have the added advantage of not leaving bits of steel behind. Which can rust. Using the brass wire brush scrub the area over the holes on the burners. Scraping away the rust and scale. Until holes -- clear and clean. Scrub all the -- holes side back and front. With the burner holes brush clean remove the -- catch tan and dispose of any remaining debris. The catch and should be scrubbed with hot soapy water until the pan is clean and grease free. Overtime these aluminum cat scans can oxidized. You can buy disposable aluminum inserts to give the catch and clean fresh look and to make it easier to keep the catch and clean in the future. If you had trouble lighting your grill or the grill has a small flame even when the tank -- full. Believe it or not spiders can be a problem. In some parts of the country spiders build nests in the narrow part of the burner feed to. Benefactors have installed spider stopper guards to keep the spiders from entering the air intakes. But despite their efforts the spiders seem to get in anyway. You can clean out any spider blockages with a special bristle brush made specifically for this purpose. Simply slide the brush into the opening of the air mixture vent. On the burner feed to. Work the brush back and forth cleaning out any spider webbing that may be inside the burner. Will be one burner inlet for each -- Do the same for each burner and using an old toothbrush clean the holes of the spider stopper -- carefully. And then snap the spider stopper guards in place. With the grill clean it's time to reassemble. Place the new flavor -- bars into the slots in the cooking. If your grill uses lava rock follow the instructions that came with the -- to put the lava -- in place. Installed the new cooking grills. Turn on the gas supply and press the -- At a steak. And you're ready for another season of barbecue."