Hi, I have a early 90s Strat Ultra. One of the bridge pickups (lace red) is out. Everything else works fine. The question is a two parter. Is it pretty likely that dropping a new pickup in will solve the problem? and secondly, how complicated is it to do? (I dread taking this baby to a guitar shop, I am in the middle of nowhere and just moved here, and know nobody. Also, the Ultras are wired different, so I really don;t want a hack looking through it.) The guitar is fine for practicing, everything works good, but would love to get half my sound options back.

I answered this in your thread in the Ask Mike Section.

As a Automotive master tech I once bought a Crystal ball diagnostic tool from Snap-on, I was on the testing team.

We could never get the darn thing to work right, so they were recalled and we all had to go back to diagnosing the old fashion way, by testing it.

Is your problem a switch?
A bad pick-up?
A loose wire?

Without testing, there is no way to know, we can only guess.

I.E., take it to a luthier and have it tested.