The player stepper unit in the backbox. Seem to have a situation and I need to know what it looks like. Seems the game starts and only plays on player 2. But manually moving the stepper, it only goes 4 notches and then hits a 1/4" flat spot in the stepper sprocket. Looks factory. The zero out stud hits in the frame in the correct area. The pin that triggers the switches when it's in 0, are hitting, but this flat spot seems to be in the wrong area or not suppose to be there at all. Anyone have a picture on what the gear looks like for the player stepper?

I dont' know if i'm explaining it right. I don't know what the sprocket with the teeth on it is called.

that's what the sprocket looks like. See that flat spot in the gears. It moves up 3 spots and hits the flat spot.

or could the fingers thing be on backwards? I know it can go on 2 ways. If someone took it off and put it on upside down, that might cause some stuff no?

and I tried putting this in the EM tech forum, but i couldn't find it. There was only generic, early solid state, late solid state, and new games.

The stepper moves freely. and resets all the way back into the park position. I bet the board needs to be aligned. Never thought of that.

I actually had it for sale pretty cheap. Someone in league just bought it, and i'm helping him trouble shoot.

it starts on 2 player, even when I reset manually. It can't move back anymore than it does because of the zero out stud that hits that little pocket on the frame. I bet the board is moved. because the sprocket looks just like the picture. I didn't know it was only suppose to move 4 spots. I thought it was like gottlieb where it advances, 5 spots per player, for each ball /player.

when I tried to start a 2 player game, it looked like it added players, but came around and stayed on 2player anyway.

havn't tried anything yet. We just looked at it briefly. I wanted some ideas on the direction to look, and the flat spot seemed weird, so close. Because i'm used to gottlieb EM's. But the flat spot is confirmed, so now I know other directions to help him.

make sure it's advancing to the 4th player. maybe it's not reaching that last ratchet?