Total Lateral Load Transfer Distribution

[Olds.PhD]

Maybe I can take a video to show you guys what I am seeing. It is very possible I'm missing something.

I mean, as a mechanical engineer, you could just break out your old beam calcs and find out that there is absolutely no way that arm is flexing 0.2" without breaking. It'd have to be significantly thinner to withstand that kind of deflection. And that's a single turn - no chance it'd survive even low cycle fatigue.



By measuring to the tie rod, you're including that rod end joint in your slop. Seems far more likely to have a bad tie rod end than a steering arm flexing that much. Either that or the steering arm isn't actually tight against the spindle, but that would likely be catastrophic and very obvious.

Video would be good.