REFLECTION on SUSPENSION & STEERING

Steering helps you to turn in the direction you want your vehicle to turn into, its as simple as that and suspension is maintain the stability of your vehicle. But there is a lot more to it.

Suspension
Springs are one of the important parts of suspension, there are many kinds but the ones we pulled out was a McPherson strut, these are common ones used in passenger cars and then there are leaf spring mostly used in older cars and commonly found in Utes.

Suspension designers divide the total mass of a vehicle into sprung and unsprung mass,
Sprung Mass is defined as all the mass carried by the springs (chassis, body, passengers, engine, transmission etc)
The Mass not carried by the spring is called unsprung mass and consist of axle, steering linkage, wheels etc

Vehicles come in different shapes and sizes, so they all have different body and chassis parts, i have explained all about it in my blogs but the important thing is that a faulty suspension means your car is not safe enough to be on the road.

 Steering
 The picture below is the best way to explain how steering works, By looking at the picture you can tell how it works.
when you turn the steering the shaft attached to it moves the pinion which then moves the steering rack, allowing the tie rod end to push the wheel either in or out