So my Jurassic Park LE came yesterday and I wasted no time setting it up and getting to playing it. I’ve noticed that the truck seems “tight” on one side and I was wondering if anyone else is having/has had this issue out of the box.

So, if the truck is driving left with the captive ball on the right and you hit it 90+% of the time it will flip the way it should but if it is driving right with the ball on the left 90+% of the time it sticks somewhere in the first half of the flip and doesn’t complete it until you nail the captive ball attached directly to the truck with a shot that will then push it over to the other side.

I’ve manipulated it by hand and the difference in resistance is imperceptible manually from one side to the other AND I made sure the ball wasn’t rubbing the playfield on that side which could potentially cause this problem. Is this something that may “loosen up” over time? I have played at least 2 Pro machines and 1 other LE machines and none have had this issue but I didn’t play them the day they were out of the box. I’m only about 20 games in so far but if it’s something I need to ask Stern for a new part then I wanna get on it sooner rather than later

uh... yeah... I totally did - from the location where it was. ::rushes over to the shop to check it out...::

In all honesty - I don’t know as i was unpacking it with the shop owner where it is being setup so we were kinda bouncing around doing stuff at the same time. I, personally, didn’t remove it but I’ll look and see if maybe it didn’t get removed or it just ended up off to one side causing this one sided issue

any updates you have?

I was told by my distributor that sometimes the trucks can be over tightened so my buddy went underneath and loosened the screw a little - it was immediately better and now works appropriately most of the time but still sticks occasionally