Parts to align the lid

air1keh

I would like to realign the lid on my large BGE as it's 7 years old and it now has an underbite. It looks fairly easy to do but there are several parts that it looks like you need but that I don't have because I bought my egg fully assembled and the dealer did not provide them. I have contacted the local authorized dealer here in my area and they don't have the parts. I tried calling and emailing BGE as well but they have been radio silent.

What I'm looking for are the red spacers that go between the lid and the base to maintain the correct distance between the two when aligning the lid. I'm also looking for the two white spacers that go over the bolts on the hinge in the rear to help set the proper distance there. 

Do I even need those parts or is it something I can attempt without them? I've looked online hoping that someone might sell a kit for a few bucks but no luck there. Any help is appreciated. Thanks

womaus

Because of transporting my large egg, probably over 10 years old now, I've pulled the top and bands off several times. I've never needed any "extra parts" to reassemble, and have no issues with alignment.
Will be interested to see what the experts say.

RRP

If your band is the old style it alone is the problem. The new band makes correcting that easier. Here is the solution which has proven to be VERY helpful and popular:

Overbite/Underbite: A quote from a poster

"I called this morning and spoke to Dewayne at BGE HQ Customer Service.  He was extremely helpful and guided me through the steps to level out the top.  It was extremely simple to do, even for someone who didn't understand the way these things are put together. 

So basically here's what was the problem and what I did.  The first problem was that the lower band was not wrapped around evenly - it was lower in the rear than in the front.  He explained to me that the lower band should come right up to the edge of the lower gasket all the way around the lower half.  So I loosened the carriage bolt on the lower rear band and GENTLY tapped along the band using a block of wood and a rubber mallet until the band was placed evenly around the whole bottom.  Then I tightened the band.  From that point, the underbite had improved significantly, but there was still a bit of unevenness along the planes where the gaskets met and it still did not pass the dollar bill test.  In fact, the gap on the rear side between the gaskets was slightly worse, but I wasn't worried because I knew there were a couple more steps to 

Next step was to adjust the front to back placement to fine tune the sitting of the top to the bottom.  There are two slotted acorn nuts on the top part of the hinge (above the spring) on both sides of the top that needed to be loosened so that I can 'wiggle' the top into a centered position.  So I loosened all 4 nuts, wiggled it into position, then tightened.  Now the top was centered properly (no under or overbite), but there was still unevenness on the plane of contact - in other words, it still failed the dollar bill test. 

The last step was to somewhat repeat the first step (loosening the carriage bolt) except for the upper band.  Wherever there was the largest gap between the two gaskets, I GENTLY tapped the band upward which essentially pushed the lid downward by it's own weight.  Once I saw that the upper band was positioned in such a way that the entire top part of the egg sat nicely and evenly on the bottom, I tightened the carriage bolt of the top band and vuala!  It was fixed.  Dollar bill test passed all the way around the egg.  No more underbite (or overbite). “

alaskanassasin

I don’t know if you need them but you might check with @legume

air1keh

RRP - Thanks very much for the information. Sincerely appreciated.

SandyHookEgger

I just called BGE about a month ago and they sent the spacers, spacers that go over the bolts and some touch paint at no charge. No charge. You may want to call again.