As a newbie who just got his first pinball machine this week, I would like to thank cleland and midhandicapper for their great work on documenting the process for installing the Cleland mod. I was able to easily upgrade my machine from 1.01 to 1.06 and load the new Cleland mod. It's great having the real voices and the expanded music and it's even better than i was able to do it in just an hour without breaking my machine.

I recently got a replacement one for my new gotg. It improved things but it still is kinda flaky. It seems to be also very finicky about the pitch of the machine. I have not tried the washer trick yet because I’m a newbie and Still trying to get comfortable taking things apart.
I look forward to hearing about how yours works.

I have the same problem even after getting a replacement mechanism. Here is my solution. I have been practicing my nudging skills which are not good and if I nudge right at the release I can make it catch about 90% of the time.

Statistical Analysis of Impacts of Moving the outlane posts to the lower position

As a newbie, I have been trying to find out how much difference it makes to move the GOTG posts to the lower position. Since I couldn't find anything, here is analysis that I did and I thought others might find it useful. I'm sure that it may vary by skill level, I am still improving my pinball skill - I have only watched Pinball 101 video a couple of times .

All of the other settings are from the factory settings and I have always been using 1.06 version since day 2

Original Setup : With 1807 balls played,
Left Drains 32%
Center Drains. 58%
Right drains 10%

Lower Posts Setup: 131 balls played (small sample but large enough for this analysis)

Left Drains. 24%
Center Drains 71%
Right Drains 05%

This is not a perfect analysis because it only measures drains not potential drains, but I was amazed at how much a difference it made. My scores have gone up dramatically, before I would get to Cherry Bomb wizard mode (with 5 balls) once every 15 - 20 games, now I am getting to that mode once every 5 - 7 games.

I will probably be going back to 3 balls and probably moving the post back up.