Boy, its been so long since I've refurbed this thing, I truly don't remember how I mounted the wheel. I vaguely remember it being a freakin' nightmare though. I know that I took it out of the original mounting setup. I was quite an ordeal too. In retrospect, I wish that there would have been another way to do it or another wheel to use to make it easier. There probably is/was, but it was getting towards the end of the project and money was flying out the window. I picked up a used wheel on ebay and started hacking. As far as the artwork, I had a fellow byoac member do it. He goes by "SNAAKE." Then I uploaded it to an online site that does arcade grafix and they printed it for me. All in all, a small fortune.
You should throw out you current project, save yourself the aggravation, and just buy mine!