smpoponi
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So anyone who owns a Badlands that has those weird piezo sensor pedal setups knows that the springy goo that gives the pedal its spring and awesome sensitivity also deteriorates into a soupy mess of the stickiest goop on the planet. Once that happens the pedals are all but worthless.
My fix for the last few years was to just jump the wires going to the piezo together to have the gas be on full blast at all times, once you started getting the engine power ups it get super hard to control the car at max gas. Some ops back in the day would wire them to a button but the game plays better for me with two hands whipping the wheel around.
So I finally decided to figure out how to make the pedal work again.
The hardest part is getting all the goop out of the pedal assembly, it is the consistency of peanut butter with vinyl caulk mixed in, the WORST!
Once I got it cleaned out as best I could I drilled a hole through both pedal assembly base plate and the mounting bracket. I knew I needed a spring there to give the pedal movement to trigger a switch. I inserted a bolt from the bottom up and used that to hold a leaf switch assembly to the pedal base with a washer and put a spring on top.
I weaved the 2 leaf contacts thru the spring (trimming the longer one) so depressing the pedal compresses the spring witch pushes the leaf contacts together. Closed the lid of the pedal, stepped on it and tested for continuity. Holy shit it worked!
I need to fasten the spring to the washed with some epoxy or something but other wise it was really easy, just had to look at it for 45 minutes and figure it all out.
Concerns: The constant contact of spring on leaf arm will break the leaf arm.
Otherwise I think its a pretty legit fix. Here are some pics:
My fix for the last few years was to just jump the wires going to the piezo together to have the gas be on full blast at all times, once you started getting the engine power ups it get super hard to control the car at max gas. Some ops back in the day would wire them to a button but the game plays better for me with two hands whipping the wheel around.
So I finally decided to figure out how to make the pedal work again.
The hardest part is getting all the goop out of the pedal assembly, it is the consistency of peanut butter with vinyl caulk mixed in, the WORST!
Once I got it cleaned out as best I could I drilled a hole through both pedal assembly base plate and the mounting bracket. I knew I needed a spring there to give the pedal movement to trigger a switch. I inserted a bolt from the bottom up and used that to hold a leaf switch assembly to the pedal base with a washer and put a spring on top.
I weaved the 2 leaf contacts thru the spring (trimming the longer one) so depressing the pedal compresses the spring witch pushes the leaf contacts together. Closed the lid of the pedal, stepped on it and tested for continuity. Holy shit it worked!
I need to fasten the spring to the washed with some epoxy or something but other wise it was really easy, just had to look at it for 45 minutes and figure it all out.
Concerns: The constant contact of spring on leaf arm will break the leaf arm.
Otherwise I think its a pretty legit fix. Here are some pics: