Pit Boss Igniter Replacement / Replace Pit Boss Heating Element 

Glad I watched! About to do my 1100. And mine is heavily modified. Looking at the directions with the hot rod kit seemed like way too much extra work. I'll do this in a few minutes after I eat a snack lol. My pitboss has a race car header for a stack. Moroso valve cover from a sprint car as a baffle above the stack. A-arms for bracing. My race shop logo engraved in a live end hardwood bench. Used roll cage tubing to build the frame. A rod from a blown race engine as a backstop for the lid. And a big aluminum afco shock for a lid handle. Cook on it almost daily. First trouble in 3 years.

Thanks for the detailed video! Watched this and swapped out mine last night. So much easier this way than Pit Boss' own video.

My igniter went out. I called pit boss and they said mine was out of warranty and a year and a 1/2 old. They wanted 50 bucks plus shipping for a new igniter. When on Amazon purchased an igniter for $14! It looks identicle and works great period! Switch out was easy don't forget to remove the rubber grommet that makes it really hard To get the igniter out..and tape a string to the igniter when you go to pull it back through! Great video

Hey there Bummer, thanks again for another great video and info. I’ve thought several times about contacting you. We both bought our Pit Boss smokers around the same time and my igniter went out on mine also about a month ago. Going to replace mine tomorrow and like you said, have watched several videos on how to do it. I like your idea the best, using the wire method to string the new one into place. I hope this isn’t going to be an every 8 month repair. I called Pit Boss and they were very helpful. My igniter went out a week before Thanksgiving and I was really bummed out Bummer lol, because I have always hickory smoked our Thanksgiving turkey. They told me how to use the grill without the igniter by putting a small handful of pellets in the burn pot and using hand sanitizer to light the pellets. Not kidding you! lol. I didn’t like that idea so I went back to my old method of paraffin wood wafers and a stick lighter. Worked great and our turkey was the talk of the family. I used the Apple pellets for something different and like I said, it came out great. Why I’ve been wanting to contact you, is to see if you figured out that you can’t use the 3 2 1 method of doing Ribs on our smokers. With the constant flow of air from the fan, it’s like baking in a convection oven. Everything cooks faster. The turkey I did was a 24 pounder and it was done in 3 1/2 hrs. In my old smoker, it would have been 5 to 6 hrs. if not more. Hope I have helped you out for a change. Thanks again buddy and hope you and yours have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Give that lovely little food taster of yours a Christmas gift and tell her that it’s from a crippled up old man from Buffalo NY. lol

Mine just went out, thanks for the how-to. Simple enough but I always check to see if someone's found an easy way, looks like you have.

Just finished completing the igniter replacement on my pit boss Casey combo and I would like to offer a couple of deviations from this procedure. I found that in my case it was easier to remove the fan motor by unscrewing the four screws holding it and dropping it down out-of-the-way that way you can put your hand up in to the cavity and thread igniter cable connector through the rubber grommet hole much easier. also you need to make sure you pull the cables tight so that you don’t have access cable up near the fan blade and make sure the cables out of the way of the fan blade. I also installed a master kill switch at the same time in the powerline so that I could shut the Casey combo power off to the unit and it does not keep running all the time and that way you do not have a parasitic draw of current 24 seven.

Nice job buddy doing thru the whole process. Your time and video is appreciated

Great video, way better than pit bosses video, you actually showed how to fix it! Nice

This saved so much time, way better than the video Danson sent me!

Good idea no the pull wire! Press the primer button and hold it fir 10-15 seconds help fill the burn box quicker. Good video. Thanks

Very informative indeed......nothing like seeing it done!

Thanks man!!! That fixed my problem!! Looks like it’s brisket for Xmas after all!!

Awesome video man. Very helpful.

Glad to see your up and smokin again. Thanks for filming this. I'm sure it's just a matter of time before I will need to do it also. Have you done a beef brisket yet? That is the only thing that I have not perfected yet really with the pit boss.

Thanks for this video. Our igniter just broke.

I've had to replace 2 already. The first one i believe i installed it wrong and left all of the igniter in the fire pot. This time I stuck it out a 1/4 of an inch. Hope that works better/longer.

Great video. Where can I order spare parts for this unit or others? Such as heating igniter or fan motors or power supply board?

Your motor and fan area is spotless, looks like it’s brand new, how do you keep it that way when your hot rod is used so much it needs replaced? I clean my pot boss 820D every 3 smokes unless it a long one then sooner and also clean the fan and motor area twice a year and it’s a mess.

8mm wrench or socket for those pot screws if the Phillips strips out like mine did

Great video. My paint started peeling and pitboss sending me a new barrel. Wonder how hard that will be to switch?

Great Video! by any chance what is the part number and where can I get it?

How do you get the blasted screws off the control panel? We've tried pb blaster and they still won't budge

Is the ignitor the same for all smokers?

It seems like you have issue with your pitboss 1100!!