Hello Pinside, My Lawman has been playing 100% for the last year or so until a few days ago. When just powering game on it goes through a reset cycle with Player Unit stepping to player 1 ball 1, Bonus Stepper stepping, the Ball Return coil fires, Target Bank resetting, and finally Control Bank resetting. This happens without pressing Replay Button but everything resets fine and stops after control bank resets. Then when pressing Replay Button all these things cycle again but never stop. The Player Unit continues to step, the Bonus Unit continues to step, the Target Bank continues to reset, the Ball Return coil continues to fire, and the score motor continues to run as the Total Play Meter continues to increment with every cycle.

One other thing to mention is that the Score Reels do all reset to "0" as they should. The credit wheel decrements as it should.

Another thing to mention is that I found a hack from a previous owner, there was a deliberately placed piece of cardboard in score motor position 4A on closest switch to the cam just on the outside of the switch dog. I removed the hack so not sure if that is compounding my issues.

Posting the start sequence and a portion of schematic.

Following the start sequence on power on it makes it to step 6. I don't think it should even start the sequence until the Replay Button is pressed buy this starts on just power on.

Not sure where to begin on this one.

Lawman Start Sequence (resized).jpg

Lawman Schematic (resized).jpg

It was the SB switch in the reset bank. Now power up is normal. However.... the moment I press the Replay Button the Target Bank coils fire and keep firing (Target Bank Reset Relay (I) does not fire but coils do), the Bonus Unit keeps stepping, the Player Unit keeps stepping, the Subtract Replay Unit goes to "0" (doesn't matter if there was 1 credit or 15 credits it drains to "0". The only way I can stop this is to turn power off.

Also after power on instead of pressing Replay Button I add a game by making coin chute switch the Add credit steps to 15 very fast as all the other devices mentioned above keep cycling.

Yes, I have it and is in my first post. Makes it to step 6, but while it is resetting the score reels to 0 the target bank coils fire repeatedly and continue to fire along with the player unit stepping and the bonus unit stepping and they continue to fire & step after the score reels are at 0.

Finally this is resolved. While doing a thorough inspection of all the relays, switches, & score motor, I found a white spacer broken off lying under the score motor. This spacer is the one on motor 2B, closest to the post on B level. This was causing the first switch on motor 2B to make all the time. After breaking off the post on B level of the score motor would never contact the switches.

I used Gorilla glue and a small clamp to glue the spacer back on and let dry overnight. Problem fixed.

Thank you HowardR & pinmike for your assistance.