The kit gives you everything you need, but you need to have a lot of patience. I had to take it apart fully twice because I seated the joystick wrong the first attempt. It took a good hour to take apart and put together the first time. Mainly because I was trying to be super careful and not break any of the plastic. The second attempt I had it apart and back together in roughly 20 minutes. Just make a layout of where all the screws go, especially the ones under the black cover that covers the buttons, because the length on them varies.I actually got two joysticks and accidentally damaged the ribbon on one on the first attempt but luckily the kit I got comes with two replacements. If you have it seated right though they pop right in. When taking it apart make sure you don't pop any of the other ribbons out of place. One of the ends of the ribbons on the ring popped out on one side and I had to reseat that, but it wasn't too difficult. Just be mindful of those, you'll see the ends connect to the board on each side under the trigger button. It's easy to jar that one loose just a little bit.I'm not sure what the metal pad tool is used for other than sitting there looking shiny on your work area. I really only needed the pry tool to help pop things apart, the large t5 screwdriver, and the tweezers. The tweezers help placing the screws in place and can be used to very carefully line up the end of the ribbon. Don't damage the ribbon out of frustration with the tweezers like I did! When putting the ribbon in, there's a really tiny black retainer clip on the top of the ribbon housing where it connects. It's super tiny and really hard to see if you don't have quite 20/20 vision. I flipped that up to insert the ribbon then flipped it back down to lock the ribbon in.The new joystick seems to work really well and the kiddo is happy there's no longer any drift.