BENT PICTURE It looks like the picture is sitting on an invisible hill...it's bent upwards in the middle towards the left side. I tried the convergence and fixes the color convergence some but picture is still bent. Help Please.

okay the transmission is probably fine ,,,but if you are having these problems like this have your trans axles checked out ..anytime you put the vehicle in a bind that creates hard shifting you are heading for expensive repairs ..Have the ball joints checked as well to see if all of this smooths the transmission out ..It could be something simple ..also remember that a faulty steering can cause this

they should be bent away from the walls they are mounted on and if you have tryed this maybe either it has not been bent enough or it has been bent too much when looking at them from the side it should almost be a quarter moon shape. if I where you I would attempt to try a few more times making sure both left and right clips are about the same distance out.

hopefully it will snap into place.

Under the spark plug cap on the left side of the motor (left side while your sitting on the machine)

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Most of the time when I see this problem in the field it is cause by a bent or broken fuser gate. The gate is behind the right side door and is shown in the picture. What happens is at the rear side there is a little tab that sticks out. You can see it in the picture at the far end. That little tab trips a photo sensor. If this bar gets bent or broken then that tab does not go in far enough to trip the sensor and the machine will show a jam all the time. Normally you can fix this by opening this "gate" with the little lever shown at the front end of the picture. Then twist the plastic by pushing the sensor tab at the far end in towards the sensor hole. What you are trying to do is get that sensor tab to go farther into the sensor hole so as to trip the sensor. Once it moves farther in just shut the right side door back and see if the jam is reset.
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In order to provide a correct dianosis and cure, I will need to know the model number and in which direction the bow occurs. Does the curve occur from the top and bottom toward the center or from the sides toward the center? There are different circuits involved in these case.

Please update this and I'll provide a solution.

Thanks,
Dan

the picture is bent inward and shadow looking sides are cut off.

Take the lens off and look at the lens opening on the body - at the 9 o'clock position is the aperture stopdown lever. It should be square to the edge - not bent sideways or too far from the side. It's a pretty flimsy lever and easily bent. You can bend it back square by grabbing with pliers and pushing toward the left side. Common problem.

You have bad convergence amps.The fluid may need to be changed if the picture had a hazey look to it before the convergence went bad.

You need to have the convergence IC's replaced. A repair like this should run you about 300 bucks or so. In most places.

On the middle circuit board towards rear is a metal wavy plate.On the back side(actually towards screen when looking from rear of unit),the middle screw has a ground wire(light brown) that is loose.