Hi there - long time listener, first time caller.... lol

Have owned Taxi for a few months and it gets a good amount of play time. One of our favs. Recently however theres an issue with 2 balls being ejected into the shooter lane. Press start and first ball enters shooter lane. Then for some reason a second ball is sent in a few seconds later. But never the third.. if i remove one and drop it back in outhole it fires another back in.

I've done the switch tests using balls not fingers to activate switches. Everything registers. Reading other posts above i removed the pink quick connects and soldered the wires directly to the switch terminals. No change.

If i'm reading it right these switches are associated with transistor Q49. But i'm not convinced its a shorted transitor since the C A B switches register as normal if you play a game (with a constant two ball multiball haha).

Is there any reason a switch would be recognized in test mode but not in game mode?

Thanks!

There should only be 2 balls in table. I would try that first. Then check that the switch in the shooter lane is registering.

Yep, just confirmed that if theres 3 balls in the table, you'll always get 2 in the shooter lane.

Oh duh. Yes just 2 balls. Not 3 in there wasnt thinking.

I've checked the switch and it seems to read. And if u remove ball you hear the sound that the ball is launched

Actually just checked again and somehow a third did get in there. Musta been when i was working on something else i added a third ball. While i feel somewhat dumb - my game works again! Thanks for showing me the way!

Note of interest to TAXI owners. The left wire form was factory
mounted with a small gray spacer in order to lift the top part
of the wire ramp at a slight angle. I made a cautious mental
note of this part back when the game made its show debut.
The spacer was 1/4" long. I knew right away that once the
game was first shopped out this part would be lost.

Those silly fixes are the best ones! Glad you got it working!

Huh, I never heard that before. Got a picture?

no. They are not very thick.

Of course, you would not "here about it" because the part was a throwaway.
If you had bought the game NIB, the spacer would be there.
If you want to know why the left ramp gets busted right in the middle,
Ding, Ding, Ding.
As far as a picture, no I did not have a camera at the time I was at the shows.
I do not think if I did have the capacity to take a picture, the angle,
and glass reflection would not have worked out.
Parts are.
1) 1/4 hex head sheet metal screw
2) washer
3) ramp assembly
3a) there might have been a washer.
4) 1/4" long gray tube spacer
5) black wood siding
Screw the space under the top exit of the wire ramp in order to pitch the
wire ramp at a higher angle.
If I can get to my TAXI I would take a picture. You got to remember,
the show and the game were released in 1988.
Techs and coin operators did not care about the game's integrity
only what was in the cash box.

Thank you! I'll pull the trigger on them then. The mylar is really bothering me and I need to pull it off!

Heads up for Taxi players - just discovered how the large taxi plastic gets damaged...............I've been getting airballs from the right flipper when hitting certain posts along the ramps or Lola drops - the ball ends up either caught by the wireform and rolling back to the right flipper or continuing into the taxi plastic and cracking it along where the screw holds it in.

Might want to laminate with mylar the backside/frontside of your plastic to add a little more protection - I've done that as part of my repair, although should have done that first *before* it got broken............

Anyone else solve the airball problem maybe with a plastic post sleeve with less give???

Retro LED kit from Nifty LED... turned out awesome

Pretty sure they are #555 bulbs too.

#555 is what is suppose to be there.

Comet LEDs on all my games. For Taxi, i use warm white comfort bright for the GI and color matched inserts.

Anybody know where to get a replacement shooter lane wireframe. Upon looking up part number from manual 12-6772-1, several pinball shops show it as Cyclone shooter wire form which is different design. Did they change this part number?

I may have one but it's gonna be Sunday before i can look. I'll let you know.

Does anyone have any cool instruction cards for their game?

Out of all the ones I searched for online, I liked these the best.

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These are my favorite. Including both Marilyn and Lola cards depending on the type of game you have.

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Does anyone happen to have a spare plastic that's kind of under the left side of the "arrivals" ramp? I have attached 2 pictures of the small plastic I am referring to, which is highlighted in green. The metal support post for the ramp goes right through the plastic in question, and it has two small red posts on it to prevent ball hangs (should the ball get airborne and land on the plastic.)

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Just picked up a HUO Taxi and it's sweet! What do you guys think?

Now I need to shop it out with LEDs

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WOW very nice!

Yes very nice indeed

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Huo? Come on look at that slingshot rubber wear. Joking of course. Beautiful score.

Almost done shopping it... Still need to finish the LEDs on it..

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Huo documentation? This will help me prove a point that even Huo games have some insert wear

No documentation but I've seen a lot of Taxis and this one is clearly home use only. Guy was 87 years old who I bought it from and him and his wife bought it back in 1988. Yes it does have a little bit insert wear and ball swirls, but it's still a very nice machine

She's purty, especially the Blue Marilyn

I'm not disagreeing. The game looks fantastic.

You had me up until the colors. But looks awesome otherwise!

Game looks amazing. Great find. Im all for moving all my games to LED's and I do like certain colors in certain sections. Most of the time I use the cool white from NiftyLED. However, on my Taxi I went with the retro LED kit that Nifty sells and i couldn't be happier. I feel its the best of both world. I just restored a Jokerz and in that game I used cool white and it looked better that way than the retro bulbs....In my opinion.

Game looks fantastic! I will say though, but this is just MY opinion, and by no means am I saying it looks bad or saying you bleeped it up, but I just prefer non-colored LED's in the Passenger "Picked Up" inserts. To each his own preference is always accepted in my book. Awesome game and enjoy it.....

Yeah I was just trying out different colors. I like how my game of thrones pin matches the shield color to the shot so I thought why not try it out on Taxi.. Marylin(Lola) just doesn't look right in blue.

New record.. How do you build a larger Jackpot? Seems like all my Jackpots that I hit are around 1.5mil..

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Invite some noob friends over, have a pinball party, raise jackpot to max value, kick them out, play game, collect.

Check the game settings for minimum and maximum jackpot values. I have mine set at 1.5 million maximum, which is the lowest possible setting, since I did not want to have huge variation in the jackpot values. But you can adjust the min and max (within certain ranges).

Haha that's rad! Adjust it so that each pop bumper hit is worth 5 grand, it will get up to 4 million in no time

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Planetary pinball has plastic sets and the Lola Marilyn plastic available if anyone needs them

F4 blew on the power supply board. Replacing that got some strange resets, so I did a cap kit. Now it's playing fine, but F4 is pretty warm. Is that normal?

Also, since doing the new fuse and caps there are a few inserts that pulse at different rates. Lock, drac, carry passengers, and shoot again. All 4 screws are there and tight on the power board and all connectors seem just fine. Any guesses?

I've never shipped a game before but I would for that Taxi if you ever decided to sell. Gorgeous game!

yeah Right!

Thanks! It was a labor of love I don't see it ever leaving the stable

Hey guys. anyone happen to have the pinouts for a taxi coin door. Mine didn't have one and between 2 doors I have I want to Frankenstein it so I can play it until I find an original. Or does anyone have a compatible coin door for sale. I'm in Canada. Thanks

whatevs, that thing is gorgeous, i'd set mine on fire for that one lol