steering arm shaft
1Steering — For other uses, see Steering (disambiguation). Part of car steering mechanism: tie rod, steering arm, king pin axis (using ball joints). Steering is the term applied to the collection of components, linkages, etc. which will allow a vessel (ship …
2shaft — A long smooth surfaced bar of metal with a circular (round) cross section. See armature shaft arm shaft auxilliar drive shaft axle shaft balance shaft bevel drive shaft cardan shaft clutch shaft composite propeller shaft …
3arm — A part attached to or projecting from something. Also see a arm a arm actuator arm ball joint rocker arm breaker arm check arm contact arm control arm crankarm door check arm …
4recirculating-ball-and-nut steering — A very popular type of steering gear. It uses a series of ball bearings that feed through and around and back through the grooves in the worm gear and nut on the steering shaft. The turning forces are transmitted through these ball bearing to a… …
5Pitman arm — The Pitman arm is a steering component in an automobile or truck. The Pitman arm is a linkage attached to the steering gear (see recirculating ball) sector shaft, that converts the angular motion of the sector shaft into the linear motion needed… …
6pitman arm — A short lever arm splined to the steering gear cross shaft, the pitman arm transmits the steering force from the cross shaft to the steering linkage system. In this way rotary motion of the steering wheel is turned to lateral movement of the arm …
7cross shaft — The shaft in the steering gearbox that engages the steering shaft worm, the cross shaft is splined to the pitman arm …
8pitman arm — noun An arm connected to the output shaft of a steering gear, aimed at moving the steering linkage to steer a vehicles front wheels …
9cross-shaft — [1] Any transverse shaft. [2] The outgoing shaft of the steering gearbox, to which the pitman arm is connected. The British term is rocker shaft …
10rocker shaft — A British term for cross shaft (i.e., the outgoing shaft of the steering gearbox, to which the pitman arm is connected) …
