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m3_lover
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Question about steering

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I always hear stuff about steering knuckles and bushings in car magazines, can anybody explain this for me please, pics will help too, Thank you
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Tom
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I think knuckles refer to the (knuckle) juint connecting the hub to the lower suspension wishbone. They must allow the hub to turn whilst not coming loose, usually using a ball or cone joint.

However I can see no advantage to be gained in these components.
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RacingManiac
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in the production car there are huge potential gain to be had as most suspension components are mounted on rubber bushing instead of spherical ball joint/rod ends. As they are tuned for NVH requirement first and foremost....And results in a lot of handling complience....
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Does anybody have pics of this stuff?
Simon: Nils? You can close in now. Nils?
John McClane: [on the guard's phone] Attention! Attention! Nils is dead! I repeat, Nils is dead, ----head. So's his pal, and those four guys from the East German All-Stars, your boys at the bank? They're gonna be a little late.
Simon: [on the phone] John... in the back of the truck you're driving, there's $13 billon dollars worth in gold bullion. I wonder would a deal be out of the question?
John McClane: [on the phone] Yeah, I got a deal for you. Come out from that rock you're hiding under, and I'll drive this truck up your ass.
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RacingManiac
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actually I think steering knuckle is the actual joint that connects the tierod(trackrod) to the upright. And what I said before still applies.
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manchild
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http://images.google.com/images?q=steer ... art=0&sa=N
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Sodder
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The easiest way to figure out what a steering nuckle is, is by crawling under a solid front axle four wheel drive vehicle. Tracing your steps from the steering box:

Steering box
To Drag Link
To Passenger Side Steering Nuckle
To Tie Rod
To Driver Side Steering Nuckle

Kind like this for a right hand drive truck looking from the front.

(Disregard the periods (.) you cannot just space it out with the space bar, the message board format will not allow it)

Box
.......\
.........\ <-----------Drag link
...........\
======[ <--------Steering Nuckle
^
.l
.l
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Tie Rod


What about that elementary school high tech drawing.... :P
All I know is I don't know much....

http://batracer.com/-1FrontPage.htm?6l
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