T2 Jitters

Anyone ever have their t2 wheel jump to the left? Its more like a jitters, you can see it on the calibrate screen. Does it about ever 45secs. or so.Bad news in the straight at 200+. Appreciate any responce....Thanks.

I had the same glitch with my GP1 until I read here about this stuff called "Tuner Control". It's a spray cleaner/lubricant you get at Radio Shack for $8 a can. I sprayed it into the pots, and this black gook came out of the pots. After I pluggged the wheel back in I recalibrated it and had no more jerks in the steering. Works good. >Anyone ever have their t2 wheel jump to the left? Its more like a >jitters, you can see it on the calibrate screen. Does it about ever >45secs. or so.Bad news in the straight at 200+. >Appreciate any responce....Thanks.

>I had the same glitch with my GP1 until I read here about this stuff called >"Tuner Control". It's a spray cleaner/lubricant you get at Radio Shack for >$8 a can. I sprayed it into the pots, and this black gook came out of the >pots. After I pluggged the wheel back in I recalibrated it and had no more >jerks in the steering. Works good. Hmmm, I guess I've tried everything else so I might as well give it a try! Joe

While your at it spray some on the pins at the connector ends. Computer off of course!!! Hope you get it straightend out ;) R. Faust aka Xducer

I had to replace my steering wheel pot after about a year or so. I play N2 quite a bit. Call Thrustmaster and order some spare parts. (Pots, springs .....etc.) They are nice to have around. (Especially if you race in a league) Good Luck.

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>>I had the same glitch with my GP1 until I read here about this stuff called >>"Tuner Control". It's a spray cleaner/lubricant you get at Radio Shack for >>$8 a can. I sprayed it into the pots, and this black gook came out of the >>pots. After I pluggged the wheel back in I recalibrated it and had no more >>jerks in the steering. Works good. >Hmmm, I guess I've tried everything else so I might as well give it a >try!

If it doesn't, you might as well try what I have done. Mine was jittering to the right, in a rather straonge way: when I start turning right, the cross went right as it should have, but at around 50% right it suddenly gave a spike towards the center, then went to the right again. Needless to say that accurate driving was impossible, I had to drive on the middle of the track. I tried to use all cleaners/lubricants I could find (no WD-40 in France where I live), tried to flood the pot with *** - to no avail. A strange thing I noticed is that when I turned the pot by itself it gave me no spikes, they came back when I put the wheel back together :) I am positive there was no play between the wheel shaft and the pot, they were fixed together very strongly. I almost forked out a lot of cash on a TSW or F1 Sim (and would have bought it if the Brits were not so strong about Europe as to make me pay UK VAT ;) - the Melbourne race was approaching and I almost didn't know the track:) Then I did what I thought to be a heresy: I removed the thick black bungee cord from around my wheel. The spike disappeared instantly. It took me only a few minutes to readapt to the lack of resistance, I can control the car even more precisely than when the T2 was new. Hey, I'm driving a steering-assisted race car, and from the on-board cameras it doesn't look drivers apply any effort to turn their wheels. Well, it doesn't center itself at all, but does it in a real racecar? (even if it does I don't care :) Try it, you can always put the bungee cord back later. Karim