Adding a needle valve to my Smoke Hollow 38’’

[Smokey S]

I am wanting to add a needle valve to my new Smoke Hollow 38” but the hoses aren’t connected like I expected. I thought I could just unscrew the hose that connects to the regulator, but instead of being attached by a screw in male/female piece, it is completely attached to it and can’t be unscrewed. When I attempted to change the entire hose that connects the tank to the fuel dial on the actual smoker it won’t unscrew. I can see that it is indeed a screw in connection, but it’s almost like they used lock-tite or some kind of adhesive on it so it can’t be modified. Maybe it will unscrew, but I turned it very hard
and it wouldn’t budge. I stopped because I didn’t want to snap anything off. I was just wondering if anyone has had this issue and could shed some light as to what I should do.

Thanks,
Josh

 

[bdskelly]

You’d have to heat that hard sealer to get it to loosen. It’s like cement. Amazon has complete assemblies with the valve you may wish to consider. I’m alway a Little edgy about gas lines and breaking them open. B