HELP!!! My NASCAR Pro wheel won't calibrate!!

I plugged in my NASCAR pro wheel today I turned on my computer I tried to calibrate the wheel but it kept jumping all over the place the games won't work with it! How do I fix this I've had the wheel since July what I do I do? I have to run a league race today and buy another wheel is out of the question!! help!!!

Did you check that little switch in the pedal unit? I've occasionally kicked mine into an intermediate position and had the calibration go strange on me. Only other thing I can think of is that one or more of your potentiometers need cleaning. David

the little button is in seperate as it should be? what are potetiometers and how do I clean them? I am a moron so please help me!!

I guess you are a moron that won't be in tonight's race :-) -- Header address intentionally scrambled to ward off the spamming hordes. cisko [AT] ix [DOT] netcom [DOT] com

Seperate is good . Potentiometers or"pots" are the rotary variable resistors that tell your computer what position the pedal/steering wheel is. They are generally small metal cans with a shaft projecting to one side. As you use your wheel and pedals they slowly get dirty inside and start to loose their calibration causeing your wheel /pedals to "jitter" when in the windows calibration panel. To access the steering unit pots you have to undo a number of screws on the underside of the steering unit. Once you have access to the pot you have to use some sort of electrical cleaning agent such as spayable electrical contact cleaner to flush the gunk out of the pot. Let the pot dry and reassemble and recalibrate your wheel. If its the pedals then you need to turn the base unit over and extract all of those screws to get at the pots. Its not a hard job, it just takes time and some patience. David erb

Well I just took aprt the base. I unscrewed all the screws. Now what do I do. There is a bunch of wires and other stuff. Is there a diagram available? I really don't want to have to pay for parts from Thrustmaster. Is there anything else that should be changed? Please help me!! I need to race!! PleasE?????????

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>Seperate is good . Potentiometers or"pots" are the rotary variable resistors >that tell your computer what position the pedal/steering wheel is. They are >generally small metal cans with a shaft projecting to one side. As you use >your wheel and pedals they slowly get dirty inside and start to loose their >calibration causeing your wheel /pedals to "jitter" when in the windows >calibration panel. To access the steering unit pots you have to undo a >number of screws on the underside of the steering unit. Once you have access >to the pot you have to use some sort of electrical cleaning agent such as >spayable electrical contact cleaner to flush the gunk out of the pot. Let >the pot dry and reassemble and recalibrate your wheel. If its the pedals >then you need to turn the base unit over and extract all of those screws to >get at the pots. Its not a hard job, it just takes time and some patience. >David erb >> >Did you check that little switch in the pedal unit? I've occasionally >kicked >> >mine into an intermediate position and had the calibration go strange on >me. >> >Only other thing I can think of is that one or more of your >potentiometers >> the little button is in seperate as it should be? >> what are potetiometers and how do I clean them? >> I am a moron so please help me!!