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- May 14, 2012
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At yesterday's event at Essington I suffered at both races a wheel problem; the center of the wheel started veering left. This means that for keeping car straight I had to keep my G27 slightly veered to the left (as when you have damaged your car after a crash).
This happened in both races right after "fighting the wheel" in an oversteering situation. I ended up crashing and retiring both times as it was quite wierd to drive.
I went then for investigation and I've found that it is quite a common issue for this wheel, once it starts happening it won't stop. Once you fight a strong FFB kick the wheel will start losing its center and won't recover it untill you unplug and plug it back in the USB port (so wheel gets recalibrated).
The reason why this happens is at the wheel position sensor failing due to vibrations and also for this sensor not correctly glued to it's axis and therefore slipping at quick FFB corrections. This sensor is a small wheel, very similar to the ones the old mouses had inside (if you ever dissasembled an old mouse to clean its inside, you know what I'm talking about).
So there are two posible solutions.
First: the sensor screws get loose, and screwing them back does the fix.
Second: Putting some epoxy glue (plastic against metal) at the sensor wheel's axis, so it won't slip at strong and quick FFB corrections.
As I don't have an epoxy glue at the moment I've gone for the first solution, and if the problem reappears I'll go for the second.
What you need:
-An hexagonal Allen key (If you have some Ikea forniture any of those hexagonal keys will fit ;D)
-A phillips screw driver-average size
-A phillips screw driver-small size
Steps you need to make (Pictures are from other sites, not mine):
1-Dissasemble wheel
1a - Using an hexagonal key (Allen key we calle it here) remove the front part of the steering wheel.
1b - remove the small board (2 screws) and unplug it from the wheel case.
1c - Remove this three long screws to be able to get the paddles off the steering case
1d - Unscrew all this screws and you'll be able to remove the cover
2-Looking for the position sensor.
This sensor is in the right servo-motor as shown in the picture, the one with a black cover (no need to disassemble them as in the picture)
2a - carefully remove the plug that avoids the black cover from the servo-motor to be remove.
2b - Now remove the black cover and you'll get to the see the sensor (the pictures shows the servo dissasembled, but as I said, there's no need to do it)
2c - Remove the small board that surrounds the sensor wheel. And screw the screws that hold the sensor to the servo-motor (mines where quite loose. You'll need the small phillips screwdriver to access on of the two screws.
2d - If you have epoxy glue, apply it at the axis of the sensor wheel, to make it sure it won't slip again when high fast forces are applied.
3-Reasemble all parts and wait some hours for the glue to perfectly dry (if you used it).
Hope it can help.
This happened in both races right after "fighting the wheel" in an oversteering situation. I ended up crashing and retiring both times as it was quite wierd to drive.
I went then for investigation and I've found that it is quite a common issue for this wheel, once it starts happening it won't stop. Once you fight a strong FFB kick the wheel will start losing its center and won't recover it untill you unplug and plug it back in the USB port (so wheel gets recalibrated).
The reason why this happens is at the wheel position sensor failing due to vibrations and also for this sensor not correctly glued to it's axis and therefore slipping at quick FFB corrections. This sensor is a small wheel, very similar to the ones the old mouses had inside (if you ever dissasembled an old mouse to clean its inside, you know what I'm talking about).
So there are two posible solutions.
First: the sensor screws get loose, and screwing them back does the fix.
Second: Putting some epoxy glue (plastic against metal) at the sensor wheel's axis, so it won't slip at strong and quick FFB corrections.
As I don't have an epoxy glue at the moment I've gone for the first solution, and if the problem reappears I'll go for the second.
What you need:
-An hexagonal Allen key (If you have some Ikea forniture any of those hexagonal keys will fit ;D)
-A phillips screw driver-average size
-A phillips screw driver-small size
Steps you need to make (Pictures are from other sites, not mine):
1-Dissasemble wheel
1a - Using an hexagonal key (Allen key we calle it here) remove the front part of the steering wheel.
1b - remove the small board (2 screws) and unplug it from the wheel case.
1c - Remove this three long screws to be able to get the paddles off the steering case
1d - Unscrew all this screws and you'll be able to remove the cover
2-Looking for the position sensor.
This sensor is in the right servo-motor as shown in the picture, the one with a black cover (no need to disassemble them as in the picture)
2a - carefully remove the plug that avoids the black cover from the servo-motor to be remove.
2b - Now remove the black cover and you'll get to the see the sensor (the pictures shows the servo dissasembled, but as I said, there's no need to do it)
2c - Remove the small board that surrounds the sensor wheel. And screw the screws that hold the sensor to the servo-motor (mines where quite loose. You'll need the small phillips screwdriver to access on of the two screws.
2d - If you have epoxy glue, apply it at the axis of the sensor wheel, to make it sure it won't slip again when high fast forces are applied.
3-Reasemble all parts and wait some hours for the glue to perfectly dry (if you used it).
Hope it can help.