This one has been discussed many times but here's another take on the subject. I absolutely HATE JT-580LP trems. That trem has been the one thing that has kept me from playing this wonderful Bengal DK-2. Drop in replacement ???............ maybe. Took me 10 minutes to do the swap-out but had a couple problems. First, the treble side front corner of the OFR is just barely touching the body in the trem route. Any contact whatsoever, no matter how tiny, is going to completely screw up the tuning. 2nd, spring tension seemed significantly off after the swap, may have to add another couple springs to the stock setup that already had 3 springs.
This won't be hard to fix. I'll just have to pull the trem, grind a tiny bit of wood out of the trem cavity with a dremel(could probably just sand a bit but a dremel will be quicker) and then use some black touch-up paint on the dremeled area. I'll have to take the guitar to work tomorrow since my dremel is there and finish it up tomorrow.
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This won't be hard to fix. I'll just have to pull the trem, grind a tiny bit of wood out of the trem cavity with a dremel(could probably just sand a bit but a dremel will be quicker) and then use some black touch-up paint on the dremeled area. I'll have to take the guitar to work tomorrow since my dremel is there and finish it up tomorrow.
![](http://www.vintagedeanguitars.com/images/DK2Bengal-1.jpg)
![](http://www.vintagedeanguitars.com/images/DK2Bengal-2.jpg)
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