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Quoted from desertT1:Is this normal?
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I just got an Old Chicago, also has startup issues as well, but looking at your pictures I am fairly certain mine looks the same with wires like that, I was also wondering if it was normal but based on what you and I seem to have I am guessing yes. Probably a common harness for a few games that they just adapted
Quoted from desertT1:I was guessing it was a common harness because nothing seems to be missing, and the wires don’t seem to have a duplicate color pattern wire close to indicate they were cut.
None of my insert lights work, but without being able to start a game I don’t even know which ones might be on by default.
All I get is backglass lights right now, my center kickout hole just keeps kicking, and the score motor just keeps running. Fairly certain my ball count stepper and bonus stepper are completely greased up and messing with things.
Quoted from desertT1:I’ve cleaned a few of those on other games. It’s not too bad, just take some pictures and lay parts down on the order they go together if you can.
You have some lights, so the fuse is good. Maybe see if you are getting voltage to a few of the GI playfield sockets. I though power was bad one time, but it turned out that every single GI bulb was burned out. You never know.
On the kick out, is the switch stuck shut? Can do a continuity test in the two tabs just to make sure.
On the score motor, are all of your scores reading 0? Even if they are there might be a switch not making good contact to let the game know it’s at 0. Hopefully you don’t have to track that down seeing as it’s a 4-player.
Scores are not at zero I will give that a shot. I checked the kickout hole switch and it isn't stuck. I too have bought a game that I assumed had blown GI fuse or connector issue and instead every bulb was just bad, funny how that can happen. I have a friend who has offered to help me out on it and he recently helped me with another Bally EM so I am most likely going to take him up on it and learn from him more. Otherwise my backglass and playfield are in amazing shape so hopefully it cleans up nicely here.
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