Paul Y. -- Now With More Sodium!

mechimike

LTDScott, Porcubimmer pilot

Chris in KY

Typically you want your drag link (from the steering box to the axle) to be horizontal, or least set up to match the suspension links movement. If you don't do this, whenever the suspension moves up and down, it affects your steering direction. i.e. when you go down, the wheels go left, up-->right. The more vertical your drag link is, the worse this gets.

Additionally, the loads placed on the steering linkages are huge pretty much on matter what. There's a reason there aren't any welded components in your steering bits: they're usually solid steel or cast iron.

...which is to say bent rebar is definitely not what you want keeping your car going straight.

Mad_Science

Ive seen tie rod ends held on with electrical conduit.

danio3834

saabophile2

oldskoolparts

I'd avoid their engineering course.

Kuang

Murilee Martin

Yay us! :)"

and

" "temporarily unavailable or too busy"

Jalopnik has killed his hamsters! "

OK, MOFOs! It didn't kill them, but it did get them breathing heavy! Ha ha! I've since redirected scary steering traffic to another [equally weak] machine so it should help some. That scary steering stuff is years old and gets rediscovered occasionally, but nobody's flogged the hampsters like you fawkers!

rlcanon

Also, the parts have to be strong enough to withstand the forces (the weight) placed on them. Raise the ride height, you'll raise the COG. The steering (tie-rods, steering shaft, steering box, etc.) is going to have to work quite a bit harder than it was originally designed to do. Driving on any road, but especially off-road, things will vibrate, be sumbitted to shock, be flexed, etc. You have to accomodate for that. These guys have taken (bad) shortcuts.

FLB

Jalopnik has killed his hamsters!

SpeedWagon

if this guy doesn't win some literary prize for his website, I don't know what will.

mikedrawcar

Mad_Science

FLB

Yet another reason the USA rules.

Mad_Science

Andrewpetty

Unevolved 8.04

P161911

Look, he's been /Jalopniked!

Yay us! :)

FЯeeMan

rgseidl

graverobber- Two BEER minimum

[128.83.80.200]

And there's a couple more pages of such steering....arrangements....on consecutive pages linked at the bottom.

Adamskiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiy

lascauxcaveman

The deeply troubling part about so many of those is the attention to detail spent on other aspects of the car, or maybe the apparently decent fabrication skills some have...but then they run mind-blowingly retarded steering linkages.

Mad_Science

They guy had the class to come back and thank my boss for probably saving his life.

Gavin082

NovaloadMissesPolar

SmaartAasSaabr

For some reason, the link is wonky. It won't work as a "open as a new tab" on my browser, but rather only as a simple click.

It's also no less than about 6 years old, as that's about when I remember first reading it.

shocker

Vizzini

acarr260

Skydiver

Tomsk