Aligning the Haunted House up-kicker plunger and ball tube
Steps
- Turn the game off and set a ball in the cellar up-kicker hole.
- Push the plunger up by hand and see where it meets the ball: it must hit the dead centre.
- If it is off, loosen and shift the up-kicker mounting bracket under the cellar playfield until it does.
- Fit a fresh nylon coil sleeve, flanged at both ends; its top edge is easily damaged by the falling ball.
- Check the clear plastic tube sits exactly over the hole. It rests in the half-round notch of the metal bracket behind the hole, held there by a spring; make sure the spring is fitted and tight.
- If the ball still misses the main playfield, move that slotted bracket a little to re-centre the tube.
- Watch the tube whenever you lower the main playfield, as it is easily knocked out of line.
Systems
Games
Related tips
- Where the arc capacitor goes on the Haunted House up-kicker
- Haunted House has six switch-fired kickers that need fuses
- Haunted House up-kicker too weak to reach the main playfield
- Haunted House playfield-mounted transistors Q1 to Q3
- Haunted House: no sound 16 in the sound test
- Haunted House switch matrix wiring
- Black Hole and Haunted House third relay ("U")
- Haunted House driver board: which transistor runs which coil
Source: Repairing & Upgrading Gottlieb System 80 Pinballs from 1980 to 1989, Part Two, Clay Harrell (pinrepair.com)