First technical question about my lotr. Tonight I installed my cliffy protectors on the gimli hole and orthanc hole. After I was done, started the game, and notice two problems. First is about 50% of the time when the ball falls in the Gimli hole, it does not register, and I must wait for the machine to check for balls. The scoop works fine, and I look at the switch while the ball is stuck on there and it looks like its fully depressed. The other 50% of the time, ball falls in and is registered right away and works fine....

Second problem is for some reason when the ball lock is on for the right ramp, the ball is not registered when it comes to the plunger, don't know if that's correct word for this part?. When it gets kicked up the VUK, or comes out of the back ramp, from the ring hole, the ball hits the plunger and the plunger drops allowing the ball to pass down to the flipper. But if the ball is hit up the right ramp, it comes to the plunger and just sits, like the machine doesn't know the ball is there. But when the ball goes up the right ramp, the machine does know it went up the ramp as Aragorn says his phrase. So what is going on that would be causing this? Machine is registering the ball when it goes up the right ramp, VUK, and back ramp. But only gets stuck when it goes up the right ramp. Very strange, and I am at a loss. I am a super noob to pinball machines as far as fixing goes. So please any answer you give, make it simple for me to understand. Thanks in advance for any help you can give!!