Shaker Grate

Hey everyone. Only one of my to grates rock up and down the other on don't. I would think I could rock both of them but the right one wont. Beginning to wonder if something is broke?

Here is when I done clean up few weeks ago.

Not sure w/ your buck, but my HITZER grates have a small connecting rod from 1 grate to the other. See if ya can track down a pix of the grate system plus look real good in your ash pan. The rod is secured w/ a cotter pin--see if anything/rod is just hangin down. It's not that big.

There might also be a cog or gear on one end or the other that meshes with the grate not working. You just have to take things apart to find the problem.

freetown fred wrote:Not sure w/ your buck, but my HITZER grates have a small connecting rod from 1 grate to the other. See if ya can track down a pix of the grate system plus look real good in your ash pan. The rod is secured w/ a cotter pin--see if anything/rod is just hangin down. It's not that big.

Wait a second there like a pin hanging down below the gates in the front. I been just rotating the grates they work that way but get jammed easy.

Edit. I guess I knocked it loose last year....

Here is the wire

Sooo, did ya get em workin right?

freetown fred wrote:Sooo, did ya get em workin right?

I've not done a shake down yet I drop a lot of ash when I was checked king bottom did have welding gloves on. The pin actually looks like a Carter key.

The manual says nothing about both rocking all it says is.

Insert handle into tube move up and down.

Get a pr of pliers in there & bend it up some C. With that set up, they should both rock.

Ya mean push & pull--short strokes?

corey wrote:The manual says nothing about both rocking all it says is.

Insert handle into tube move up and down.

freetown fred wrote:Get a pr of pliers in there & bend it up some C. With that set up, they should both rock.

It's tight to a bolt.

freetown fred wrote:Ya mean push & pull--short strokes?

corey wrote:The manual says nothing about both rocking all it says is.

Insert handle into tube move up and down.

It's just said up and down

Try putting it in that hole on the top & moving back & forth--see if the grates move.

freetown fred wrote:Try putting it in that hole on the top & moving back & forth--see if the grates move.

They both move back and fourth no trouble. Maybe that's what they meant I thought that meant rock them up and down.