Short story: removed most parts on my Terminator 2 playfield and cleaned the game. This game is new (to me). When I replaced the old flipper rubber with a new rubber I noticed it was binding and getting caught on the lane guide behind it. After examining the OLD flipper rubber you can see a notch was kind of cut into the rubber (or maybe it slowly wore into it? Looks cut to me).

How do I fix this correctly? I tried tightening down the lane guide several different ways to get it to "move" left but it locks into the same place each time. Unless I am mistaken a flipper can't be moved - the hole is the hole... so what would you all do? Trim the metal part of the lane guide? Clip the rubber like the old one was notched?

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Just took apart the flipper and see nothing unusual (compared bushing and it looks okay but might as well replace it since I have new ones on hand).

Reading Lloyd's comment - do I have the wrong bats? Wow, something only a hardcore pin guy will notice. If that's my issue that's an easy one to fix!

According to T2 manual the flipper part number is 20-9250-6 which Marco shows as the below part which appears to be what I have (??)

https://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/20-9250-6

I could order the white bats but I’ve looked on several sites to see if the specs differ. It isn’t clear that anything differs but the color. The yellow bat is definitely the part number in the manual - but manuals can be wrong as we all know. My guess is something else about my game is causing the rub. I guess I’ll just have to file down the lane guide and move on.

Never really thought of that. I’ll give it a shot!

Also - I did play with the screws under the playfield to get some “room” but with 8 of them there isn’t much “give”. Appreciate the suggestion though! I’ll keep this thread updated.

I wanted to close the loop on this repair for the record books... I rebuilt the flipper (needed to rebuild them anyway and had the kit on hand). In the process of rebuilding it I also noticed the item the lane guides screw into (not sure of the term) was loose. I circled two of them in the photo but it was the one almost directly under the flipper that was loose. The screw holding it in was missing. I banged it back into place and put a screw there. Everything appears to line up properly now. I'm nearly certain this was my issue and the rebuild and new bushing probably did not contribute to the fix.

Thanks to everyone for the help and advice. Hopefully this one stays fixed as I have only one more technical issue with this game and I hope to have it running 100%. https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/terminator-2-clubmembers-only/page/137#post-4632468

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