Daytona Centering Steering Wheel How to?

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Hi all,

My Daytona steering wheel is ever so slightly pointing to the right however the car drives straight.

I was just wondering how to adjust the wheel so it is physically on center. I've tried removing the wheel itself and adjusting from the front however the wheel will only got back on in certain positions and the current position is the closest to center so I'm thinking I need to adjust things on the back of the dash?
 
Ok. There are two ways to do this. Well ill clarify...there are 2 ways to do it for my Daytona Usa 2 cabinet. I dont think the first is different(im not sure) but ill instruct you on what to do. I hope this helps.

First method and easiest:
go into the test mode and check your drive board setting. It may be listed as "Drive Board Test". In this menu one option should be to "set the center of steer" or something to that effect. When you spin the wheel, you should see some sort of alpha numeric value change. Just center the wheels position here and save the setting. ***however**** sometimes the wheel is so out of whack that you cannot fully center it via this software method. This center of steer adjustment can only adjust so much. If it's beyond the threshold then go to the second method. This is a rough example of how the software for centering the wheel works. Again these are fake made up values just to illustrate. Say the steering wheel has positioning numeric values that are -20 for all the way turned to the left and 20 for all the way to the right. This would make the value 0 as center. Follow me so far? The software will allow a calibration threshold for steering centering of 11 values. So for instance the software will only allow you to say the center of steering value can be -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5(11 values in total). If the steering wheel is so far out of whack that your wheel looks centered and the value reported back is...say...8. That value is beyond what the software can correct and you'll have to go to the second method.

Second Method:
Go behind your machine and take off the back panel so you can access the back of the steering wheel. You might not have a ton of clearance and it may be difficult to reach inside, but its gotta be done :p. If you dont want to go at it from the back of the machine, you can always remove the entire steering assembly....(im being facetious, that is way more work). In the back, you're looking for the VR gears. There are 2 gears meshed together and both have 2 screws in them. The VR gear we need to adjust is on the left side when facing it from behind the machine(and in my photo). It may be the same looking or not...but it SHOULD be similar in appearance. You'll have to loosen the 2 screws on the gear or the bracket the gear is on. I just loosened the gear screws. This should then allow the mesh of the 2 gears to loosen and not be connected to each other. Then you can rotate that VR gear as needed to correct the alignment of the wheel. tighten it back up when you think its about centered. Go back into the test mode and back to the drive board settings. Here you can refine the center of the steering after your adjustment. The goal is to align the wheel enough so that it can be centered in the settings within that threshold the software allows that i explained earlier. You dont need to get it 100 perfectly straight when adjusting the VR, just pretty close as the software fine tuning leaves you wiggle room. Heres a pic of the VR gear. EDIT: ok it posted the picture upside down...terrific. The vr gear yoy want to adjust is the larger gear on the right in this upside down photo. I hope this helps you out!
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Daytona Steering Calibration

Physically center the steering wheel. Make sure it does not move during this procedure. Go to input test. Handle should read 80h. If not, loosen the two screws on top gear back of steering shaft and adjust pot until it does read 80h. Lock down the screws. Now go into drive Bd test. There is also a hexidecimal value there. It should be 80h too. If not, adjust bottom gear like you did top gear and lock it down. Make sure the wheel does not change position as you do this or it will be out of wack again. With the wheel physcially centered, both pots in both tests should be 80h. Thats all there is to it. There are dipswitch settings on Drive Bd but I would assume no one would have ever messed with them since they left factory.
 
Thank you both for your replies. Do you have any methods for keeping the steering wheel straight during the pot adjustments?

Reason I ask is because if I physically move the wheel so that it LOOKS center and then let go it physically moves back to the slightly off center position.

Thanks again
 
I'm just struggling to understand how altering pot values will affect how the steering wheel looks when it's in it's resting position.

To be clear the car drives straight it's just the wheel itself that LOOKS slightly off center when in it's resting position.
 
Use a second person to hold wheel straight.

The drive bd pot being at center dictates where it will hold wheel.

Another thing you could do is just remove the wheel, put it on straight and lock it down.
 
Ah ok. I removed the wheel but there are only so many positions it will allow it to go back on I think there are 'keys' on the gear.

I'll try your suggestions when I get chance.
 
Hey Ken,

Thanks for your help. You mention that the Drive Board Screen should also read 80H however that screen is a little different to the Input Test Screen all the values begin with a letter and not a number see below:

 
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