Dome Alignment Issue

Ok, well I am writing this just in case someone has the same problem. Since I got no response from this post, I called Customer Support. They were very helpful. Even though I tightened all the bolts prior to stoking the BGE up to 650 degrees, the heat did its number on the metal band and it must have loosened up. So... according to Customer Support (this is for the XL BGE Only) you need to loosen the lower carriage bolt slightly the raise the lower band so that it is just below the felt seal of the base. If you loosen it too much the band will slip down on one side as you raise the other so loosen it enough to move it but not enough for it to slip. It may also be necessary to loosen the top carriage bolt but only slightly. You may neeed to take a piece of wood and use it to tap on the lower ring to get it up into position. When the bottom ring is just below the felt all the way around the base then go ahead and tighten the lower carriage bolt. The upper ring is not critical. It will wind up being where ever it winds up being. The other key is that the two angle brackets that the carriage bolts goes through (upper and lower) should be approx 1/2 apart from each other when it is tightened. If this doesn't adjust the lid totally you can loosen the hex nuts that are connected to the hinge bracket on each side. You will see there the whole is large enough to move the lid forward or backward slightly to make the lid move forward or backward. That should resolve the issue.

I am not sure why the lower band moved as I had it pretty tight but I did not know about the 1/2" spacing on the l brackets so it may not have been as tight as it should have been. I will have to test this again the next time I make pizza. If in fact it slips again I may do like others and opt out of cooking at the really high temps to avoid this hassel. We shall see.

Hope this will help someone else who finds themself in the situation I was in.