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I replaced the MAX with the TC1044SPCA.  Then started smelling melting electronics.  Who ever had assembled the pedal originally had the IC2 and IC3 mixed up!  I put in the old MAX in the correct place in addition to replacing the Zener and ...
Functioning Sunking running at 17+ volts!!
Thanks for all your help guys!

Got mine in '90 BTW.  Guess that makes us Gorilla Bros!

Spent some time before work with it.  If you turn on the chorus and turn the depth all the way down it gets a much better sound.  Thicker but not all muddier.  Gonna have search for a schematic and see what's going on in the chorus.

I bought my first guitar/amp used for $75.  The guitar was a Harmony Strat copy and a Gorilla GG-20.  2 months later my 'good' friend came back and said the amp wasn't his to sell and needed it back.  So, I sold it back to him.  In the early days I never could find an amp that I liked as much.  So, 23 years later I finally have another Gorilla - $15.  This one has built in chorus that actually sounds pretty dang good.  BTW,  I may have romanticized the memory of the sound I got those first few months but in reality, this amp can really sound pretty good.  Crank the volume all the way, add a little 'Tube Stack' and you get some wicked crunch/distortion.  Poor little 6.5" speaker.  I'm loving it!

Greatly appreciate it.  I'll let you guys know how I goes.  May be a few days before I get to it.

So R25 or R27 as G.Lackey suggested?

So if I jump the 9V to IC3 Pin1 I should be in business?

I did Jon.  No V+.  Only at the 9v pad.

I desoldered a blown diode (D3) and the solder pad came of on the cathode side.  Looking at the build document, it looks like that pad delivers power to the rest of the circuit.  I soldered the new diode (cathode) directly to the 9v+.  How do I ensure power to the rest of the board with this pad missing?!

Here is a link to the document:
http://www.madbeanpedals.com/projects/Sunking/docs/Sunking_ver.3.pdf

He had said it was Madbean.  Btw, I replaced the diode.  Am I correct in thinking that the voltage will not travel through the circuit if the IC is blow.  I am getting voltage at the 9v+ pad on the pcb but no where else.

He told me it was a Klon clone and he just bought it.  I assumed he meant he bought it new.  Made the next logical assumption that it was a Kingslayer because the Sunking PCBs are no longer being sold.  You know what they say when you assume you make an 'ass' out if 'u' and 'me'.

Is the only difference between the sunking and Kingslayer the diode toggle and OD toggle?

Thanks, I had assumed that the power would no long move across the diode.

So the Zener won't necessarily protect the IC?

Burn mark on the double sided tape under D3.