Steering rod orientation

Bretto · Post by **Bretto** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 6:58 pm

What direction does the steering rod go front to back? There is one end from the tip to the start of the large bore that is about 1", the other end is about 1/2" from the tip to the start of the large bore. I feel its the longer end aft due to the way the zirks point.

RimfireJim · Post by **RimfireJim** » Mon Jun 06, 2011 5:10 pm

What do you mean by "steering rod"? Drag link?

Bretto · Post by **Bretto** » Mon Jun 06, 2011 10:16 pm

OOPS, Yes draglink. Thanls

RimfireJim · Post by **RimfireJim** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 3:56 pm

That's OK - one online vendor calls them "Steering Connecting Rods", never mind the official and universal term, "drag link".

I'm not looking at a drag link at the moment, but I recall it being asymmetrical. I had asked Stuart when he took it off, if he noted or remembered which way it should go back on. We held it back up in place and it looked like it would only work one way, so we didn't give it any more thought.

Refer to pp. 273-274 in the Maintenance manual: if you carefully match the disassembly description with Figure 111, you can tell which end goes on the gear (rear) and which end to the axle (front), because the internal parts arrangement in the link is slightly different end-to-end.