Is there a plastic above this that may be affecting the ball as it comes to the top of this Ramp?

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1. Clean inside of gearbox with break cleaner.
2. Regrease gearbox grease with super lube.
3. Replace motor with a new one from Kimballs pinballs.

The super lube is key, I tried 3 other lubes before and got poor results. Super lube was recomended by another pinsider and it is the ticket.

These 3 things will get the trunk up to speed so the timing will work for the games programing.

As I understand the leons fix board will disable trunk hits when the trunk is rotating= missed trunk shot during rotation.

Just my 2 cents, I rebuilt it this way and have not had the trunk fault out once.

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Check to see if this purple plastic is causing problems as the ball starts up the wireforme ramp. I had to sand a bit off to make the ball roll up the ramp smoothly.

Probally have to put the ramp back in to check this though.

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The left gate done not come up during the left orbit shot only the right.
Had to take the glass off and close the coin door to check mine while rolling a ball around by hand slowly.
There must be something slowing it before that point, assuming you're left gate moves freeley open and close.
You're playfield overlay should not be a problem, the ball should have a ton of speed going into the orbit as the flippers on TOM are very strong.

RVH

What does the Poof target do? I didn't even know it existed until today.

Here I googeled it for you.

Poof Target
Scores 100K, that's it. On prototype machines, hitting the Poof Target would raise a drain shield between the flippers but this feature was removed when the game went into production.

To fix the trunk the trunk needs to spin at proper speed to work with the programing of the game.

#1 clean the trunk gear box grease out, I used something like break cleaner. Its all metal parts in there.

#2 this is important, regrease the gearbox using superlube brand grease.

#3 you're all most done, replace the friggin motor it's 20 years old by god.

I got my motor from kimballspinballs, I had to email him to ask for one as thay are not for sale on his websight.

I did this and the trunk never stops.

If I'm not wrong the board you are talking about will make it so the trunk dosent register hits during rotation. Ugh. Do that it You want it's your choice.

Here's a pic of the grease, trust me don't use any other type of grease or oil.

Best of luck
RVH

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Guess I got lucky then, I'll keep this in mind.
Great info thanks.

This fuse was blowing in mine when I got it, turned out the magnet on the trunk was melted.

The pins have a tab on them that needs to be pushed in as you wiggle and pull the wire out. I use a stiff sewing type of needle to press on the metal tab.
Pull the connector apart and look into the male side and you can see the tab that needs to be pushed in.

Sorry I diddent chime in earlier as I had no luck removing it recently. I tried heating it up on the electric radiator and prying it out with no luck and gave up.
That thing was glued in like a mo fo.
I diddent know how to remove it without breaking the plastic that holds the magnet.
I left it alone and just replayed the 3 wireformes.
Be prepared to tap the screw holes on you're wire forms when thay come back from plating.

I had mine replated by woody76 recently and thay turned out awsome.

Change the coil to one step weaker one, 26-1500.
You can just swap it with the coil that's used for the shooter lane.

RVH

Edit: the ball will come out a touch slower and gravity will do the rest.

Yes I did swap the coils after going over trying to rebuild everything. Works pretty damn good.
I also tried one step weaker coil but it was not strong enough to kick the ball out.
Swap them, see how you like it. The kickout to the shooter lane will be strong but it will work fine. Just order another 26-1500 and replaced it if you want to, that's what I did.

RVH

Bay Area amusement has them at $31

http://bayareaamusements.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=GS-TOM9317

All red would look ok. the all purple looks great that's what I did.

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As I recall these are also inline with the trunk magnet. When I bought my TOM I had the trap door stop working and blowing fuses and found the trunk magnet was the culprit as it was melted a bit.

I just wanted to say my Theater has been tentatively sold for a few weeks now and will be picked up and shipped early tomorrow morning. It's going to a new owner that I hope enjoys it very much.

Past member as of tomorrow
RVH

Looks like the kit from pinballbulbs.com