Cheapass faster steering ratio idea??

[rapieper@yahoo.com (Ron Pieper)]

I have a sneaky feeling Dan is right..but I'm still going to mull it
over.  My old prof said "when in doubt, exaggerate."

Sooo...if the offset was greater than the distance between the center
or rotation and the tie rod attachment point, and was placed so that
the line of the tie rod was on the other side of the center of
rotation, would the wheel turn the wrong way?

Hmmm....


--- jester@westfailure.net wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Scirocco-Al wrote:
> 
> > You still will have the same effective length between the inner tie
> rod and
> > the connection of the tie rod to the hub carrier.  Unless I'm
> missing
> > something, I think you will end up with the same thing you already
> have.
> 
> The more impaortant factor is the angle of the tire rod rather than
> wether
> or not the attachment is offset...
> 
> In physics there is something called a force vector, but this would
> show
> that even though the actual point of attachment is further outboard,
> teh
> force will be effectively applied at the point where a straight line
> along> as
> long as the tie rod was pinting at the center of the spindle it
> wouldnt
> matter if it was attached at both ends one end or ???
> 
> But i could be wrong on this one, its been a while.
> 
> take care,
> 
> the rod would intersect the spindle... imagine offsetting it half the
> length of the spindle arm... it would take half the distanec to turn

> Steve
> 
> 

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