For anyone who has rebuilt a Funhouse Rudy head, can you please provide some assistance. I am in the middle of a FH playfield swap and have completely rebuilt the head with new plungers, springs, centering flange and elbow grease. The plunger links are completely smooth and not binding anywhere. The problem I have is as follows.

1. When the vertical eyelid plunger pulls down to pass through the horizontal plastic plunger and catches on the small protruding hook, it has a decent amount of drag on it. This is caused by the new spring pushing on the horizontal white plastic plunger in resting state. If I take tension off the springs, the two plungers work effortlessly. With new springs installed, there is a but of drag on the vertical plunger to get pulled pass the catch point. Is this normal? I am used to flipper links needing to be super smooth and wondering if this is normal for the Rudy head? See pics.

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

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dougram69

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State 2
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Is it possible I have the centering flange on wrong for the vertical plunger . (Note, Pics are for reference not actual inside of my Rudy head.) Should it be on the side closest to the coil or on the underside of the end bracket? Also, narrow end in toward plunger or out toward bottom? None of the videos, manual or internet pics ever show this and mine was without one. Please help.

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dougram69
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Good news. That's how I installed it.

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dogram69

Ok finally figured it out by taking the head apart again. Note, the vertical and horizontal plunger springs are not the same size or same strength. The horizontal spring is a bit shorter than the vertical spring. It is a bit weaker as using the same size spring for both puts too much pull / resistance on the horizontal plunger. I save the old springs and luckily saw the difference. I put the smaller spring back in on the horizontal plunger and the whole mechanism works perfectly. Super smooth, no noticeable drag / resistance. Works great. Just posting this in case someone else runs into this problem. Total oversight on my part as I just assumed they were the same and replaced both with the same size spring from Marco. My mistake.

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dougram69