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title: "Converting a Wolf Range to Propane — What Changes, and What Goes Wrong"
description: "What converting a Wolf range between natural gas and propane actually involves, why the low flame is where a bad conversion shows, and how to tell one from a repair."
url: "https://wolfmiami.support/blog/wolf-range-propane-conversion/"
date_modified: "2026-08-20"
Category: "Common Problems"
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# Converting a Wolf Range to Propane — What Changes, and What Goes Wrong

## What a conversion actually is

Three things, and none of them is a setting:

- **The orifices.** Each burner has a small brass jet sized for the gas it is burning. Propane is delivered at higher pressure and carries more energy per unit of volume, so its orifices are smaller. Every burner gets a different one — they are not all the same size.- **The low-flame adjustment.** Each valve has a screw that sets the minimum flame. It is adjusted with the flame in front of you, burner by burner, until the low setting is stable and will not blow out.- **The regulator.** Set for the fuel actually being supplied.

On an all-gas range the oven and broil burners have their own orifices and they are part of the job. On a dual fuel range the oven is electric and only the cooktop is involved.

## Why the low end is where a bad conversion shows

A burner running at full output is fairly forgiving: there is plenty of gas and plenty of air, and a slightly wrong orifice still produces a flame that looks acceptable. At simmer there is almost no margin. The flame lifts, goes yellow, or goes out.

That is why the complaint is nearly always "it will not simmer" rather than "it will not light", and why [the simmer page](/symptoms/range-simmer-not-working/) sends people here.

**Yellow flame on every burner is the signature.** One burner burning yellow is a blocked port on that burner. All of them burning yellow, together, is the fuel setup.

## The other tell: it has always been like this

A range that has never simmered well **since the day it went in** did not develop a problem. It arrived with one. That distinction matters because it changes what is being fixed and it usually means nothing has failed at all.

Ask yourself whether there was ever a period when it worked properly. If the honest answer is no, this page is more likely to be your page than any of the repair pages.

## Going the other way

Converting **from** propane **to** natural gas is the same job in reverse, with larger orifices. It comes up when a house moves from a tank to a mains supply, and the symptoms of getting it wrong are the opposite: lazy, oversized flames and sooting.

## When to call

A range whose flames are yellow across every burner, one that will not hold a simmer anywhere, or one that is about to be moved between a propane and a natural gas supply.

Tell us which fuel is being supplied now, which the range was set up for, and whether the manufacturer's conversion kit was used. [What installation and conversion work involves](/services/appliance-installation/).

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