My Gaming Chair has been driving me crazy. Every time I swing or revolve the chair it makes a right racket like the bearings are broken or something. Here's how to fix the chair if you have a noisy , popping one like this too.
For me the popping wasn't only happening from turning, but more so from shifting forward/backward. The fix I found was popping the top of the piston out of the tilt mechanism assy and cleaning/greasing that up so that it seats nice and tight and doesn't have any room to shift around.
@@queenshantel I just did this by following @Bovine_OW's advice. Turn your chair upside down, yank off everything by pulling on the feet until the rod comes out of the tilt mechanism. Grease the shit out of it like the guy in the video, and put it back in. You just need generic elbow grease: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000CQ4DIM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Ya I put in 2 brand new washers/bearings off amazon and it did nothing for me. I have to try this. Mine clicks/pops if I lean forward when getting up, opr when sitting down and into position....pretty annoying for a $300~ chair
I was close to buying a new one until I stumbled into this video, I can't believe i've been putting up with the popping for years thinking it was just knackered and i've fixed it in 5 minutes... Thank you so much!!!
You saved my wonderful 18 year old desk chair - thanks. The washer was broken and 1/3rd of it could not be found anywhere. I had a box of random washers from old sink repairs and other work - found one that fit almost perfect and no more noise
I know this video was like 4 years ago but I got a gt omega chair about 6 or 7 months ago and it has been creaking since I have had it. Finally got fed up of the noise and this video fixed it so, Thank You Very Much!
OH MY GOSH!!!! thank you for this video.. I was given a great office chair, but it stuck/ and thudded when I would get up... this video helped me fix it!!!!
Thanks! Terrible creaking with my Respawn chair every time it leaned back. Thought for sure it was the spring tensioner. But alas ,same spot as yours with some axle/wheel grease and now blissful quite. 👍🏼
Great. This helped. I've been putting up with this for years, replaced the chair, same crap going on with the new one, couldn't believe it, saw this, problem solved. Now it's time to fix the old one 😂. I could see there was a little grease inside the new gas lift, but very little. Did what you did - ace!!!!!
The chair was clunking every time someone sat on or got off it. We tried WD40 but that made it worse.....your method fixed it a treat. You're right.....You can never have too much lubricant! Thank you so much.
@@jothomas6707 hey jo did you just take it apart and apply more grease or did you do something different, Im having the same issue here with my chair making noise when i sit on or get off of it so am curious. Please let me know and Thanks.
I fixed my chair 4 years ago that was making that same popping noise after watching this video. I'm glad I found this video again, because the same chair is making the noise again. A question though, what causes the noise anyway? None of the parts in my chairwere broken like in yours.
Hey mate, just wanted to say that although my gaming chair is a bit different than yours (Noblechair Icon), your video helped me figure my own chair issues out. So cheers!
To make matters worse Wayne, when I fell to the floor with the chair I knocked over my R2-D2 Dome frame as I was grabbing the desk for support. Been following your vids for that and have enjoyed the build. Nuts and bolt jokes aside mate, I keep talking to you on the screen " Wayne!" It is a nut, not a bolt in jest. Anyway, mate mention my poor R2-D2 and wish him well. May have to do some small adjustments to get him back in shape. Loving the vids and keep them coming. Regards from Rik in Durham UK.
Thanks man! I used WD-40 instead of grease, and it worked great. I had a piece of hair stuck in one of the bearings, but no broken parts. Completely removed all squeaking when spinning in the chair.
Careful with WD-40, if it's the "classic" blue-yellow one, since that's a water displacement formula (hence the name "WD"). I does have a lubricating effect on the short term, but removes lubrication and moisture on the longer term. They do have lubrication products as well under the WD-40 brand, but the classic one would cause more harm, than helps.
Great video and I used it for my Kring chair (cheaper gaming series not much known). But I have another issue - when I sit the chair quite abruptly moves down in a single motion and makes an noise - cleaning and lubricating it didn't help and the rubber looked good. When I stand up it makes the same sudden movement and noise, as if the mechanism is quite clogged - it doesn't move slowly as it used to be when new.
Woo hoo! Took two tries but once I figured out I had broken your first rule (put it back together the way you took it apart) and re sorted the pieces in the right order she is now silent as a mouse :) Note : My DX racer had two washers with bearing tracks so i put one before and one after the bearing. -thumbs up and like-
I decided to do the same thing to my chair, clean and apply new grease. And apparently my bearing had cracked too so I went to get a substitute from an old cheap chair while I glued the original. Turns out the bearing from a ~$40 chair was far superior than that of my $250 chair
3:58 ... I'm not sure if the grooves were in there when the chair left the factory or if they were produced by the dry ball bearing. I turned my washers around so the flat side faced the ball bearing, applied only a little bit of grease to the ball bearing (after cleaning it) and the chair felt like new.
I took it to a hardware store and the guy explained that those have grooves from the factory. No replacement was available but you can find these online just make sure to look for proper inner/outer diameter.
Thank you, Sir! This saved me a lot of hassle and expense. A little improvisation to suit my particular chair model, and the problem is totally solved. #youcanneverhavetoomuchlubricant
wow random one, but my chair was doing the same ...googled it and find this vid ....and see my R2 build is exactly where yours is in this vid LOL ...have been following your r2 build vids too :D
ive had a john lewis chair for literally less than a month and it's already doing this. they said it was normal so did not repair, however its really annoying
im literally having the same issue with the same chair did you do the same as the video or did you take the lift rod out of the actual chair part (not the feet) and re seat it with more grease? sounds like the bit where the rod to attaches to the chair is whats making the noise
@@almostfamous1685 I did the same as this video, but there was no bearings in mine just poly bushings. Take photo of it before removing bushings, so you know which way they go back 👍🏻
You did this wrong. The rubber is supposed to go on top of all of that. You can't have a ball bearing riding on rubber like that. If you open it and check the rubber will just lay there inside the stand. Did this yesterday but didn't have any thick grease so I took old hair wax. It was dry and really thick and it works perfectly until monday when I will get some from work :p The thick rubber thing is supposed to be like that and it goes closest to the piston, then the biggest bearing washer, then the bearing and then another bearing washer. Place the mount and then finish with the washer and then the clip.
I just did this and it decreased the clicking noise when I lean forwards or backwards but there’s still some there, I might not have put enough grease.
The noise when leaning forward and backward is usually caused by the other end of the shock mount where it attaches to the seat end. It also can be greased to reduce the clicking noise.
My gaming chair didn't have a bearing in it either. My old one did. But one of the rubbers was snapped, so I glued it. Seemed to fix the problem with the loud popping.
I have a Genesis one and when i tilts alitle bit in the front or back it sounds like an old door its ony 2 months old and i find it wierd the sound happens only when u try to sit and get up from the chair..it just squeaks
What I Did : Literally put grease on space that touch each other: Screw socket washers any metal surface that touches to another metal surface. Now i can no longer distinguish which is my chair and which is my butter.
My chairs bearings and rubber piece were broken beyond repair. I put everything back (with tons of lube) without the broken parts and it works fine, for now. Curious to know what will happen if I just leave it like that.
Used $100 dallor secret lab mint condition but I can see why the seller sold it lol God damn I don’t have the tools or time to pull it apart I shot some dw 40 it helped kinda this is a Help full video
this is what it fixed my chair: just take some grease and put in on the bolts before you screw them on the base of the chair. just watched 5 videos and nobody says that.
Dude thank you so much my chair was so obnoxious with the cracking and popping now there's no noise! Made a video on my tick tock find it at Stancejunkyy
All gaming chairs are plagued with this terrible design. Gaming chair bottoms are offset to the axis of the hydraulic axel. This applies a massive torque to the bearing and that popping sound is the bearing assembly crying for its life.
This never lasts more than 2 days. I suggest buying a new chair because trying to fix this will drive you crazy. The whole mechanism design is flawed from the beginning.
Why does every youtuber think they need to get a shot of themselves holding their chin and staring thoughtfully into the air for use in their vid thumb? Think for yourself. Come up with your own idea.
You must be new to life. It's not a youtube thumbnail thing, its a human pose thing. However "unoriginal" your hipster logic might claim this to be, this pose is common throughout many mediums, time periods and cultures. So, all you did was expose your ignorance. Good job. You might have to google mediums but it's ok. That's what learning is for.
