[DMCForum] Steering Geometry (Re: Rich's 2nd to last straw)
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[DMCForum] Steering Geometry (Re: Rich's 2nd to last straw)



Yeah. What you said.

--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Jim Strickland <ihaveanaccount@xxxx> 
wrote:
> Wow.  I know what caster is, but it still took a minute to figure 
out
> what you said, Walt.
> 
> I would like to amend it from:  
> 
> It is measured in degrees and is the axis that the wheel is hinged 
on as
> it steers.
> 
> to
> 
> It is measured in degrees and is **the angle between the vertical 
axis
> and** the axis that the wheel is hinged on as it steers.
> 
> It's still hard to picture...  When the crumple tube crumples, the
> swaybar moves rearward.  This moves the bottom of the hub 
rearward.  The
> top of the hub is stationary with the upper a-arm, and gives the 
car a
> really bad negative caster.  
> 
> This makes the car pull to the side that got more crumpled.  
> 
> Jim 
> 
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