It should have come with a recipe pamphlet, I lost mine.[:@]
The charcoal pan goes on the bottom hooks, next up is the water pan then the 2 heights for grates for smoking. If your just grilling jkust put the coal pan up higher and use only 1 grate.. Hope that helps a little .
http://www.brinkmann.net/Docs/Pdf/810-5301-C.pdf