I was trying to think of this earlier, and was hoping someone around here would know. Assuming a stock pump, and a stock Saginaw steering gear, what is the max torque that is generated at the sector shaft, and therefore directed thru the draglink to the knuckle?
Figure, the drivers effort, multiplied by the box ratio, plus whatever the power steering contributes.....
also, assume that the tire isnt going anywhere (say, wedged between 2 rocks :nuke: ), and the driver is trying to turn hard....
hmmmm... :confused: :D

oh come awnnn... with so many views, someone has got to know something....:D :D :zzz:

its hard because you have to know the exact abount of force the driver is exerting. why do you care, anyways?

sh*t man, your design is good, I wouldnt worry about too much force. the only thing you'll have to worry about is how good that bracket anchors into the knuckle, so put some bigass taps in there and call it a day eh?
haha. just givin you a hard time

This just a rough guess but I would say that on a perfectly good working system with a strong pump you are capable of putting out between 600 and 650 ft.lbs of torque. Remember that is tourqe at the pitman arm. That will deminish greatly at the end of the pitman arm. And It's just a RedNecks guess

well lake, I would trust your answer probably the most, since you do all of those steering conversions. Hey Jon, i wanted to know, because I was going to subject my different designs to ALGOR, a stress analysis program within solid edge.

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