Got our Road Show playing well after it had been sitting for awhile. Repinning a bunch of connectors fixed most of the problems, but Ted's dozer blade was not moving up and down parallel to the playfield (it always sagged on the left side).
I've read previous discussions about this, but I haven't seen anyone mention a bent bracket on Ted's frame as a cause.
A previous owner had bent the mounting tabs on Ted's frame so he could remove Ted from above. They didn't bend them back exactly flat, and Ted leans just a little bit forward. This is just enough to bind the dozer blade and make it not work correctly.
I'm going to pull Ted out completely so I can carefully bend and flatten those tabs so he sits square to the playfield again.
Just a small change in Ted's angle is enough to bind up the dozer blade.

Ted's frame could possibly be redesigned so the mounting brackets came off of the frame - then he could be removed from the top with the dozer still attached. The hacker who bent mine had the right idea, just the wrong execution.

TedHeadFrameBentTabs (resized).jpg

Mine's worse - I'd be happy if it ends up looking like yours.
It would be interesting to see if your Ted is exactly perpendicular to the playfield or if he leans a little to the left.

I know this has been done many times before - but I couldn't resist, just like those before me!
Very weird looking.
#RoadShow is all back together now and playing great with a Dumbass MPU board and Soren's 7.0 code.

20210704_104439.jpg

20210725_092220_1.gif