Elvira and the Party Monsters
Bally, 1989OK, working on my EATPM, and the shooter rod tip seems to sit too far back from the ball in the shooter lane.
You have to pull the rod almost all the way back to get any kind of decent plunge and there is no fine control at all. The rod is centered nicely on the ball, but there does not seem to be any adjustment to move the rod a little farther forward.
Playfield is definitely seated correctly.
What do I do to fix this?
Thanks,
RussMyers
Have you recently changed the plungers barrel spring. The wrong spring can cause this. Data east in a Williams wont work.
Sounds like it needs viagra 
But seriously did you see if you can let it extend into the shooter lane more by possibly taking the knob off and remove any spacers or spring material?
Has something been done recently to give this problem?
Sometimes the two tabs on the apron that the ball rests on in the shooter lane gets bent. Can you push them in a bit so the ball can rest farther back?
I'm guessing a previous owner used the wrong size washer/e-clip or too many of them when rebuilding the plunger mechanism. Remove the shooter tip and e-clip with pliers and disassemble the rest from there, then tell us what you have.
Quoted from Arcade:Sometimes the two tabs on the apron that the ball rests on in the shooter lane gets bent. Can you push them in a bit so the ball can rest farther back?
I had this happen on a game. Bent the tabs back a bit and everything was fine.
Quoted from Arcade:Sometimes the two tabs on the apron that the ball rests on in the shooter lane gets bent. Can you push them in a bit so the ball can rest farther back?
Winner Winner, Chicken Dinner.
That was it. The tabs on the sheet metal shooter box or whatever it's called were bent quite a bit forward. Didn't notice it until I was looking through the camera viewfinder.
Thanks all, now I feel like a dumbass.
RussM
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