Oh, I understand completely. I was
extremely wary taking the trem off mine (the ground wire is pressed between the trem plate and the body, not taped or glue or anything), I just had to weigh the options, my tape fix wasn't working and I had to have a properly working trem and
no one around here knows how to work on Jazzmasters (the store I bought it from didn't even know what the bar looked like), so I was kind of forced to do it myself.
http://www.offsetguitars.com/forums/...p?topic=9024.0
I just followed that.
I will say that if something else goes wrong with it I'll replace the whole assembly with a USA made one. I might just ahead and buy one off ebay to keep just in case.