Help me on a Rickenbacker 4003!!!!!

[Daydreamnation9]

Please help! I just got a brand new Rickenbacker 4003, i was just unscrewing the big screws on the pickup cover on my 4003 to make an adjustment to it, and now the pickup cover is like sunk in, tight against the strings... i keep tying to pull it out, but then i have to hold it, and there's a lot of resistance, and i can't seem to get teh screws back in... help! this is a brand new bass!

[skullcandy]

if i was you i would just take the cover of i own a Rickenbacker 4003 and that was the fist thing i did

[Ampeg SVT]

You have to take the whole assembly apart, it is a bit of a PITA.
I would take the pickup cover off the bass, it always got in the way whenever I played it and actually it was touching the strings most of the time.

[Relic]

It's no biggie. A pain in the butt, yes but certainly no disaster.
You just need to loosen/remove the tops of the strings, take the p/u assembly out so you have access to the underside, guide the screw back into the p/u base screw hole and tighten. Reassemble as needed.

Like others have said - now would also be a great time to lose the p/u cover if you don't want it.

[Bassgrinder77]

No biggie, loosen the strings, remove the 4 small screws that hold the treble pickup bracket to the bass and carefully lift the assembly out a bit. You'll see what's binding up. Remove the big screws, take off the plastic cover and reassemble the screws, bracket, ground wire, springs and pickup backing plate in the same order as original (minus the cover).
Then re-install the assembly with the 4 small screws.
It takes maybe 10 minutes.

Originally Posted by Daydreamnation9

Please help! I just got a brand new Rickenbacker 4003, i was just unscrewing the big screws on the pickup cover on my 4003 to make an adjustment to it, and now the pickup cover is like sunk in, tight against the strings... i keep tying to pull it out, but then i have to hold it, and there's a lot of resistance, and i can't seem to get teh screws back in... help! this is a brand new bass!

[lousybassplayer]

all sounds correct. you can get the cover off without removing the pickup, but its not that much easier. Just be careful, that little ground wire can be deceptive.

[rokkitt]

rickresource.com or rickenbacker.com

do a search there


be careful, and dont force anything....what color is it>? any pics? congrats and woot!@

[xsubs]

See here:
http://www.joeysbassnotes.com/Rick%20maint.htm#rem

[Daydreamnation9]

thank you all very much, my friend is coming over right now to help me try to fix it... I'll let you guys know if it all goes smoothly... thank you so much for teh help, i was relaly panicking... this is my dream bass, and i just got it in the mail on friday... I'll post some pics once we're finished... I got it in Fireglo... and oh it's a beaut

[lousybassplayer]

You will never regret this thing (I hope).

I have a homemade sign by my front door: "Take the kid, nail the wife, kick the dog, burn the house, never ever ever touch the Rick"

[Daydreamnation9]

THANK YOU ALL! Everything went smoothly... when we reinstalled everything, the pickup cover is a bit higher than it used to be... but it hardly makes any difference to me.... my baby is back up and running!
and, as promised, here are the pictures....

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...0/IMG_2264.jpg

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...0/IMG_2267.jpg

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...0/IMG_2270.jpg

haha yeah man, im gonna have this bass for the rest of my life... it was an early high school graduation gift

thank you all for your help, you are the reason why i love the internet

[lousybassplayer]

Superb. If you ever decide to yank the pickup cover, go check out joeysbassnotes.com for the correct way to do it without pulling the pickup out or even loosening the strings. Not saying you need to, but thisway saves a lot of greif.

Now ya gotta get the matching FL.

[Eric Morgan]

What's a Rickenbacker?

[lousybassplayer]

HEATHEN!!!!!!!!!! OFF WITH IS HEAD!