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grandpa Love

grandpa Love

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What is the hydraulic ram on the
steering rod? Sure doesn't look like the
power steering on mine .......
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Seen this on another site
 
It would dampen sharp/hard shocks away from the steering wheel and your wrists and arms. Bouncing these row crops across end furrows (for example) enough force can be transmitted to rip the steering wheel from you grasp.
 
Steering dampners help smooth out the feedback cars and trucks get up from the road through the suspension, linkage & steering gear that may cause your steering wheel to jerk to-and-fro. Rough terrain vehicles usually have such things from the factory.

Maybe this guy was in the habit of going across freshly plowed fields in 5th gear?
 
I think that is for to stop the front wheel wobble on the tractor when running down a hard surface road.
The 960 we had did that sometimes and we just steer right and left quickly to stop the wobble.
 
Ah, yes. I learned never to wrap your thumb around a starting crank OR a steering wheel because of that!
 
Acts like a shock absorber so as to make the steering wheel not shake as bad when it tries to wobble. Many older 4X4 trucks had them like on my 1980 Chevy
 
The snubber probably didn't help much in this situation since most of the front wheel wobble accurses between the bolster shaft splines and the bolster gear splines in the gearbox. This situation is kinds hard to remedy since the gear setting on the top bearing serves as part of the preload on the bolster shaft tapered bearings. Thus the splines never really get any tighter than they are machined and sooner or later the splines where allowing for wobble of the front wheels. For those familiar with hack saw blade welding, A little of that on the splines seamed to help in our situation
 
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