This is a brief tale of an encoder gone bad. The culprit held gently in my rather sparsely manicured hands. It is a plane simple thingy(sorry for the technical jargon I will attempt to keep it to a minimum) but it it nestled deep inside the guts of a box so cunning, so devious it might be the direct descendant of the original Lament Configuration.
Yup inside that there box lies the resolver. Remember kids no directions! So don’t try this at home unless you are fool hearty enough to take something apart that you aren’t sure what’s inside. If you are the type that loves the unknown puzzle of how something works, and are fairly adept at putting things back right once you have messed them up, then you are going to love this next picture.
BOOM!!! GEARS!!!! Everyone loves gears!!! Come on there is an entire fashion movement dedicated to gears and how awesome they are. If you don’t believe me, or live under an fashion rock check out steam punk clothing sometime, its AWESOME you won’t be disappointed. So yeah this is actually how I think. Like I see the picture of the gears in my head, now it would be impossible for me to describe what I see without getting overly measurey and mathy and no one wants that right now, especially not me, so this idea was born. So you might be wondering why is she showing me gears when she should be showing me some resolver thingy, what ever that might be. Well because you see the left gear with the shaft, the right cam, and then in the middle back there is a shaft with a gear all the way at the top through the metal plate, yeah that is the resolver shaft.
There is the resolver, you can see the read of the shaft in the middle bearing. 
See those two philips head screws there on either side of the resolver shaft, yeah those were buried under all those gears. I had to take the whole assembly apart to get at them in order to take the resolver off. Well that was nightmare number one-ish, morphing into number two, but the next one is that whilst I was removing the various shafts and gears it suddenly dawned on me that the cam shaft stuff had no top dead center path of travel demarcation line thingy. And this cam shaft is basically what is telling the sensors whether or not it as a point where the antenna needs to unwind to keep from ripping the wiring out of it…yeah…let that one set in for a minute…rip the wiring all out the dish if this thing is messed up…stress much kids?…
Sleep tight kids, and remember if it was easy everyone would be doing it! Love the challenge, embrace the mind bogling, rock the occasional spelling error.