Steering Your Car
If you think that your Land Rover would run without its
steering, then you are very much wrong. The steering is actually
an essential part of the whole vehicle and you would not be able
to go places and conquer distances without this precious
mechanism.
The steering is actually given to that collection of components,
linkages, and bits and pieces of the vehicle that provides the
whole Land Rover vehicle to follow a course, track and direction
as directed and determined by its driver. That way, the driver
is able to keep the vehicle on track and with the Land Rover
steering, the driver and the vehicle would be able to go places.
The most conventional of the Land Rover steering arrangements is
to turn the front wheels using a hand-operated steering wheel.
Of course, for the different kinds of vehicles and forms of
transportation, there are different systems and arrangements for
the whole steering system.
One of the popular Land Rover steering is the rack and pinion
steering. It is actually also one of the most common steering
types for the whole mechanism is very simple. There is a rack
and pinion gear set that is enclosed in a metal tube with each
end of the rack protruding from the tube. The tie rod, which is
simply a rod, is what connects each end of the rack. What the
rack and pinion gear set does for your Land Rover steering is
that it converts the rotational motion of the steering wheel
into the linear motion needed to turn the wheels and it also
provides a gear reduction making it easier to turn the wheels.
Used on many trucks and sport utility vehicles at present is the
recirculating ball steering. This is the linkage that turns the
wheels on a rack and pinion system is changed slightly for this
type of steering. Instead of having the bolt directly engaging
the threads in the block, all of these threads are filled with
ball bearings that recirculate through the gear as it turns,
thus the name recirculating ball steering. These balls are there
to function to reduce friction and wear in the gear, as well as
to reduce slop in the gear.
The last type of Land Rover steering is the power
steering and this is quite a higher technology compared to the
rack and pinion mechanism and the recirculating ball mechanism.
However, this type of steering is much more expensive on gas for
it runs constantly thus wasting horsepower, thus wasting power,
and thus translating everything to wasting fuel.
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