[ramstein]

be careful, the #8 - plastic plug/pin with spring, slides in the little hole,, and the plastic has a thin wall, and can break the wall in half, so the spring, and plastic divit with the round end, can actually slip out into the mechanism, causing more problems, then it just not centering... as usual, the people that designed it decided to save 1/10000000 % by scrimping on plastic molding, therefore having a weak plastic hole for the spring and platic to sit in that centers the pedals by the spring pushing the round head of the pin into an indent.. cheap plastic junk because some company and engineer thought it would save 1/000000000 of a penny on each unit, instead causing the user to suffer with junk breaking...

I took a rubber hose for fuel lines on cars, but a small piece and glue it in the place over the broken section, and put the spring back into the hole with the plastic pin that centers the pedals.. I put more grease after cleaning out excess dust... and so far I have not had to take them apart again to fix the plastic junk...

until I got the measurements of the fix jsut right I had to take the pedals aparts about 15x when the tracks came off (even with the fixit kit Saitek sent me to fix the problem of the tracks coming off in the pedals mechanism..

I wish the engineers read the forums and would finally let them know they can't scrimp on a good product turning into cheap carp... for big dollar prices.. use anothe rpenny in plastic and or better quality... stop being cheap dirtbags... and make it a decent product..

when you have take the cheap junk apart a bunch of times, even using an electric drill with screw driver bits, it still sucks and is not fun ,, and the flight sim consumer should not have to go through this ordeal.. even as a person such as myself who is gentle and of normal weight and even on the weak side because of illness...