Recently restored my Getaway, full playfield tear down/new targets, leafs, etc, and cabinet swap.

Everything has been working fine and tonight had a friend over and we started putting back to back games on The Gateway. Probably 10 games in he calls me over and says the flipper is “stuck”, and we look at the cabinet leaf switch and we see the leaf switch looks like a pretzel. I straighten it out, put it back in, and I try it myself and it has a “pop” sound/feel and the leaf looks like a pretzel again.

So it seems as soon as the cabinet flipper switch is closed, it’s sending to much voltage between the contacts and makes it pop/twist (see picture below)

Where do I start troubleshooting this one? Visual inspection everything looks fine, including fliptronics board. This is for the right lower and upper flipper.

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Thanks so much for the replies, this pointed me in the right direction, I think I installed the wrong flipper buttons/too long, and they are pushing the leafs too far into my auto plunger. The “pop” I felt is probably the low voltage activating the auto plunger and mangled up the leafs! Ordering the proper buttons, adjusting, and going from there!