only 2 yrs 156I'm not quite clear exactly what happened, she pulled out to overtake and lost control? I'm pretty sure...
G says... Only because you're wrong. For you to be right, a steering rack would have to be capable of changing its overall length.
Scenario:
buttume that at the start of this, the tracking is spot on when the steering wheel is dead centre. Say that the steering wheel is off centre and moved so that the rack is 1" to the right of centre, i.e the left arm is sticking out 1" more than the right arm.
1) The total length from end to end of the steering rack is a constant and does not change during its travel from left to right. 2) The Ackerman Angle is controlled by the angle of the steering arm from the trackrod end to the hub. 3) When checking it as described in the scenario, the tracking will be out. 4) The left wheel track rod end could be wound in 1" and the right wheel track rod end wound out 1". The tracking would now appear as correct even though the steering rack was still "off centre". 5) Because "1)" is still correct, then when you steer left or right, the correct angles will still be maintaines. 6) Thanks to the fact you have now set "straight ahead" as actually 1" to the right on the rack then thanks to the stops in the rack, you'll have 1" less travel to the left when you turn the steering wheel clockwise and 1" further travel when turning the steering wheel counter clockwise thus, from a drivers point of view, you'd be able to turn sharper to the left than to the right.
-- Conor,
Same poo, different day.
