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Re: Akerman - question
Posted by 'itpro' on 17 May 2014 @ 17:58

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I semi agree with D-I-Y and stand corrected......

..... except...... ONE of the definitions given for a Pitman arm given in a 'car-mecahnic's' dictionary is:-

"Pitman Arm

A lever extending from the steering gear to which steering linkage is attached."

Another is:-

"pitman arm (plural pitman arms) An arm connected to the output shaft of a steering gear, aimed at moving the steering linkage to steer a vehicle-comma-s front wheels " (I love the 'translation' of the punctuation mark: ' as 'comma'!)

Now..... either of us could be picky about the use of the word 'gear' in those definitions. However, please note, it does NOT say 'gearBOX' and thus 'gear' could WELL include our steering columns linkage.!

Secondly, I can find no definition of OUR type of steering 'gear' and thus there seems to be NO agreed nomenclature for the 'drop arm' OTHER than 'Pitman Arm'. There may be, though I can't find it!

Oh..... and I always love it when people cut and paste a section of Wikipeadia and don't reference it or put it in apostrophe marks..... D I Y.....

And another.... 'Oh'..... when I was a lad, we DIDN'T have 'steering boxes' except on CR*P cars..... such as Fords! Most of mine had steering racks! I suspect you think I am American or Japanese..... let's not get into discussions about re-circulating balls!

I fully accept that ONE name for the arm which goes on the end of a steering rack IS the 'tie rod': however, I think you'll find that the MAJORITY of car manuals refer to it as a 'track rod', hence the term 'track rod end' which fail..... regularly!

Still, as a untrained-techy, I am delighted that you don't fault me on any of the description of what happens but merely on my use of words.... which just don't seem to match YOUR choice of words. In that case..... I am happy....... and willing to stand 'corrected' on my use of various technical terms!

Ian

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Akerman by 'Bulldog1303' (12 May 2014 @ 20:55)

Re: Akerman by 'itpro' (13 May 2014 @ 2:17)

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Re: Akerman by 'SimonS' (14 May 2014 @ 10:10)

Re: Akerman by 'd-i-y71' (14 May 2014 @ 12:55)

Re: Akerman by 'itpro' (14 May 2014 @ 15:41)

Re: Akerman by 'hetherip' (15 May 2014 @ 11:12)

Re: Akerman by 'itpro' (15 May 2014 @ 12:01)

Re: Akerman by 'lubo78' (15 May 2014 @ 13:47)

Re: Akerman by 'hetherip' (15 May 2014 @ 14:23)

Re: Akerman - question by 'Brakerider' (16 May 2014 @ 12:38)

Re: Akerman - question by 'itpro' (16 May 2014 @ 16:03)

Re: Akerman - question by 'd-i-y71' (17 May 2014 @ 10:01)

Re: Akerman - question by 'itpro' << You are here!

Re: Akerman - question by 'd-i-y71' (17 May 2014 @ 20:44)

Re: Akerman - question by 'itpro' (17 May 2014 @ 23:50)

Re: Akerman - question by 'essexelite' (17 May 2014 @ 22:44)

Re: Akerman - question by 'Brakerider' (27 May 2014 @ 13:06)

Re: Akerman - question by 'itpro' (27 May 2014 @ 16:58)

Re: Akerman by 'essexelite' (15 May 2014 @ 17:07)

Re: Akerman by 'Bulldog1303' (15 May 2014 @ 22:32)

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