How to adjust the 360 wheel..

mcmad · 17 May 2007 at 16:54

Seems a few folks have the same problem I had, wheel is not centered & always returns to its off centre position as below.. below is a vary basic guide how to fix it

Its pretty easy to fix, using a torx 10 security bit remove the lap guard & the bottom of the wheel..

Image above shows the insides, bottom left is the wireless board, bottom right the FF motor power & position control board. Right hand side of the metal plate is the FF motor, the little board you can see below the wires in the centre is the potentiometer that is used for position feedback. Its a very very simple design

Image below shows the gearing from the motor to the wheel, what we have to do it basically decouple the black gear from the white one, rotate the wheel to centre & recouple it

mcmad · 17 May 2007 at 16:54

to do this you remove the 4 main screws on the plate below

Pull the plate away from the wheel slightly & it will disengage the black gear from the wheel as shown below.

Now you turn the wheel to its centre position & push the plate back into position, you may have to shake the wheel a little to mesh the gears again. I would normally power it back up at this point & sync it to the 360 (this instructs the wheel to centre), check it & repeat if its still off a bit (may have to do this 2 or 3 times).

Once back tohether you have a lovely centered wheel again, job done !

SC04 · 17 May 2007 at 17:47

Thanks for posting that mcmad

bailey12856 · 22 May 2007 at 15:40

good post

Whappers · 22 May 2007 at 16:51

Wouldn't it be easier to take it back to where you bought it and get a replacement instead of breaking the warranty by opening the product up?

Wyrdo · 22 May 2007 at 17:10

Whappers said:
Wouldn't it be easier to take it back to where you bought it and get a replacement instead of breaking the warranty by opening the product up?

Does it break the warranty? Are there any security seals to break?

People have returned wheels that do this for a replacement only to find the replacement has the same fault.

mcmad · 22 May 2007 at 17:14

two of the screws are under a sticker, I had already returned one & my second one was worse. No doubt it would mean you have no warranty but I'll take my chances with that one.

Wyrdo · 22 May 2007 at 17:16

mcmad said:
two of the screws are under a sticker, I had already returned one & my second one was worse. No doubt it would mean you have no warranty but I'll take my chances with that one.

Ah so it does void warranty. I thought it might be like the Guitar Hero fixes where there were no stickers on the guitar.