1) 3 are captive balls
2)?
3)rebuild the flippers, marcos specialties may have a full flipper set up to buy
4)put some bright led's in

They are plug&play, no modding needed I order mine from pinball life, cointaker is good too.....

For the brightness, my JD was the same way. Super hard to play in a dark room. I went in to the Adjustment menu to A1 25 and said NO to Allow Dim GI.

You also want to make sure your GI connector on the bottom of the mpu board (can't recall, but is it AJ120??) isn't toasted, they like to overheat and build up resistance, causing dim or no GI. Look for a burnt connector, if you find one, replace the IDC style connector with molex trifurcons and check the board for burnt male pins/cracked solder joints.

Hope this helps.
Art.

is that right ramp broke ? get the cliffy mod i have noticed that if the ramp moves the weight of the ball moving said ramp will through the ball before it hits the lanes..

Judge is a dark game even when just adding leds. I changed my star-post to translucent. I have a led strip (superbrightled.com) in the back to lighten it up, but some times it is a little bright, so I'm able to unplug.
The 3 captive balls go in the meltdown area next under the nuke towers plastic.
link to my shop job

http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/judge-dredd-shop-job

_{Post edited by Soapman : added were I got led strip}

also there is a mod that you can buy off e bay that will light the back of that dark machine ...

Just a new coil might fix your right flipper. Mine needed one on the left.

Mine came with a full LED conversion and I'm not even sure what kind were used......but it looks great. It's brighter than the HS2 and WCS right next to it with standard bulbs.

I'm also guessing that your right ramp is broken. I've never had a ball come out.

Do you know if yours has the "Deadworld Mod"? If not that would be something to look into adding. It makes it so the balls actually lock up around the rotating deadworld (upper left) and then the crain comes out and picks them up when you achieve multiball. Really cool feature that the game was designed for but they removed it for production due to concerns over failures in routed machines.

I don't think the right ramp is broken. I have seen this after rebuilding flippers. The ball flies around that ramp so fast that sometimes it flies off the metal part at the curve. I installed a guard rail.
On the right flipper issue, rebuild the flipper (use vid's flipper guide) before touching the coil. It's most likely not a coil problem.

As for being dark, I added a bunch of spotlights to brighten the game up.

I bought that mod. Color blue and it helped mucho mungo! I also lifted the PF and cleaned the large trough plastic under the deadworld (have to do it from below the PF though). Mine was filthy and after much more light came through in that area...heck there is like a 12-14 bulb array at that plastic and the light could not get through all my filth.

I did my own and not a kit. Kits are too much $$. I ordered from pinballlife and it cost me about 65 bucks, I did not do the flashers but all the #555 and #44-47 with the concave bulbs.
10- Green #555 (crime scene)
10-Yellow #555 (crime scene)
10-Red #555 (crime scene)
150- White #555 (crime scene) and all others
50- White #44-47
I had extra. The flashers could bring the bill up to 100.

Check out Vid's excellent guide: http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/vids-guide-to-upgradingrebuilding-flippers

If you want to do the bare minimum, and it's very cheap and easy to do for a newbie, just put in new coil sleeves and clean all the mechanisms with isopropyl alcohol. But you'll get the best possible performance by buying all the parts and fully following the guide.

I've found that the most technically difficult part of the full rebuild for a newbie is replacing the flipper bushing so if you're not feeling super confident, I'd skip this step. The other parts are easy peasy

I used Ablaze 1's and the flasher ar both #89 and #906 and I don't have the exact count on them. You have the #89 under the plastics and the #906 are in the back box, under playfield and pursuit lamps.

Im guessing you are talking about the female molex connectors that connect the wires to the power driver board or maybe the smaller boards under the play field? It is a good idea to change all the burned looking ones.

Congrats on the Dredd, Kingfish. It's my first machine as well.

I was going to chime in but it seems like everyone else answered your questions.

"Dawson said:
also there is a mod that you can buy off e bay that will light the back of that dark machine ...

I bought that mod. Color blue and it helped mucho mungo!"

Dawson/Pinballdad, how is that mod installed exactly? I'm thinking about going for one...

The mod is installed behind a board at the back of the playfield. Wires go up to the backbox and plug into 12v connector, then you plug what was unplugged to the back of the mod's connector. The guy that younbuy the mod from send pictured instructions. I did both that (blue) and the pulsing red shooter lane led kits. Makes a difference! And without damage to your machine.

ebay.com link: Judge Dredd Pinball Shooter Lanes Light Mod Kit

ebay.com link: Judge Dredd Pinball Playfield Light mod BLUE or RED

And to the original poster, I had to adjust my habitrail ramps as well. Nothing drastic, but makes a big difference to not have a ball slam around in the wrong place!

I think I am having the same problem with the ball flying off of the ramp, does anyone know how I would be able to raise the ramp? Any help would be great.

Do not do this. Make sure dim gi is set for 2 mins and that it is on. . And it will dim the lights when game is on in ATTRACT mode only ......and only after 2 mins and it saves power and your connectors.
Soon as you hit the flipper button game started or not it comes back to bright again. My JD is very bright and all I did was clean everything when I got it. Check replace and upgrade connectors wherever necessary if the game seems dark.
As for raising the ramp where it attaches to the sling..... Just put plastic protectors on and a thick washer under the wireform before you add the nut and way you go!
Mine plays awesome and contact Pam at pinbits and get the dead world mod. It makes the game SOOOOO much better.

I turn dim after 15 to off on every machine, not needed with rebuilt trifurcon connectors and home use.

As for the ramp, your issues, as I noted in another thread of yours, are either a broken weldment on the metal ring for the ball to fall into the right inlane, or because your ramp is so hacked from being broken, it just acts different. Many ramps have all kinds of hacks due to the end of the plastic ramp, that is attached to the metal wire ramp, breaking.