gridrunner
Ex-lurker!
Hi everyone,
I finally got some time to clean up and power on the VR upright from Phil's Ops clearout sale. I had the control panel off and cleaned up, cleaned up the screen and plastics and cleaned out the interior. I've never seen a more complicated arrangement of PCB's and molex plugs in my life prior to working on this game. Nonetheless, the game boots fine and the paddle shift issue was an easy fix. However, two gremlins are spoiling the occasion.
The first is the steering. On power up the force feedback motor runs up and keeps running for something like 30 seconds. I can push against it so the clutch is working but it seems to run an awfully long time as though it's trying to centre the wheel. When I start a game, the steering behaves very oddly. The car wheels point either fully left or fully right. There is no movement at all until a certain point in the travel is reached when the wheels flip over. Pointing the car forwards and controlling it is impossible. The two nylon gears (steering shaft and pot gear) initially weren't fully meshed and the rotation of the Pot gear was stop and start. I adjusted them so that they now move togeher. When I go into self test the Pot for the wheel puts out readings as I turn the wheel round so I'm not sure what's going on. I did clean the Pot and the wiring is correctly seated.
The second gremlin is with the monitor. It looks like the surface of mars. All the colours are wrong. I'll get some pics of this, but it looks as though either a gun is out or is being over-driven. When I do a monitor self test colour test I get pastel shades. I'd expect it to be red, green, blue. Can anyone confirm what this test is supposed to show?
thanks for any help.
stu
I finally got some time to clean up and power on the VR upright from Phil's Ops clearout sale. I had the control panel off and cleaned up, cleaned up the screen and plastics and cleaned out the interior. I've never seen a more complicated arrangement of PCB's and molex plugs in my life prior to working on this game. Nonetheless, the game boots fine and the paddle shift issue was an easy fix. However, two gremlins are spoiling the occasion.
The first is the steering. On power up the force feedback motor runs up and keeps running for something like 30 seconds. I can push against it so the clutch is working but it seems to run an awfully long time as though it's trying to centre the wheel. When I start a game, the steering behaves very oddly. The car wheels point either fully left or fully right. There is no movement at all until a certain point in the travel is reached when the wheels flip over. Pointing the car forwards and controlling it is impossible. The two nylon gears (steering shaft and pot gear) initially weren't fully meshed and the rotation of the Pot gear was stop and start. I adjusted them so that they now move togeher. When I go into self test the Pot for the wheel puts out readings as I turn the wheel round so I'm not sure what's going on. I did clean the Pot and the wiring is correctly seated.
The second gremlin is with the monitor. It looks like the surface of mars. All the colours are wrong. I'll get some pics of this, but it looks as though either a gun is out or is being over-driven. When I do a monitor self test colour test I get pastel shades. I'd expect it to be red, green, blue. Can anyone confirm what this test is supposed to show?
thanks for any help.
stu
