Diagnostics of the steering part of the car - the key to a secure ride is not only for the driver and its passengers, as well as for the participants of the movement. Safety and comfort during movement depend on the health of all the elements of this node, including from the steering thrust with tips. In this article, I will tell you about these important elements, and also consider how the replacement of steering tips and the replacement of the steering thrust is performed.
The steering traction is an element related to steering, the main task of which is an obstacle to the slide of the car when performing turns. The correct operation of this element contributes to the correct turn of the leading wheels. It consists of medium, right and left traction and levers for the left and right wheels. Depending on the car model and the type of construction there are many types of thrust.
Tips are the final elements coming from the steering thrust to the car's wheel. They have another name - hinge. These parts are part of the car steering and an integral part in the operation of the steering. Hinges have a view of hemispheric fingers. The main reason for breakdown is their fragility. They are not subject to partial repair, as the replacement is performed entirely. The tip consists of the following details: the housing with the axis, the pin having a thread, the teflon gasket at which the finger is moving, the protective crankcase (is designed to protect the tip from deformations and beats), a plastic cover for protecting the steering tip and the case, a silicone ring for Fastening a protective cover, spring and nut.
One of the main pledges normal work And the long operation of all nodes and parts of the car is timely and correct diagnostics.
To replace the steering thrust takes place not so often, you need to follow some parameters. Tips should move along the finger axis at more than one and a half millimeters. If the indicators are few others, then the tip must be replaced with the hinge. 
Coupling clamp should be held on the clutch quite tight. Sometimes you need to check how much he is tightened. It is very important that the cover protection covers are not damaged. Otherwise, the hinge may be unusable due to dust from entering them. If there are some defects and cracks on protective covers, then it is necessary to decide on their urgent replacement.
Timely diagnostics allows you to identify existing problems before they declare themselves. To accomplish it, you do not need to purchase a special tool. All you need is to get behind the wheel and twist it in different directions.
At the same time, it is necessary to listen to the sounds carefully (if there are hints of the damage, new sounds may appear). The presence of sounds or a noticeable bad reaction of the wheel turns to the steering turns is an explicit signal to replacing parts in the steering control, it is more difficult that these parts are traction and tips. If this happened, you need to do urgent replacement.
One of the main breakdows of the steering is considered premature wear or partial damage to the hinge of the tip.
How to remove and replace
Replacing the steering thrust and replacing the tips of the steering is quite not a simple task, but this is not a reason to panic and seek help from experts from the nearest station maintenance. Replacing the tips of the steering and the thrust themselves is possible own forces.
All that is needed - the desire to repair your car on our own and the acquisition of spare parts and required tool. The only thing you need to pay attention is for each car model, appropriate elements are provided, so buy only such. 
Replacing the steering thrust can be made with the tips. That is, if your tips have not yet spoiled, but you use them for a long time, it is better to replace them. This, of course, will not save you money today, but will not make you climb again under the car, just now change them.
So, will prepare the necessary tool:
- Jack - the main element when repairing a car;
- Goats for extra damps;
- Wrenches;
- Pliers;
- The device for removing the thrust (this device you will have to buy, because without it, the replacement is inconvenient and time-consuming);
- Screwdriver flat and cross (just in case);
- Liquid for weakening fasteners VD-40 (sometimes without it can not do without it)
After everyone has prepared, it's time to get a replacement of steering. We will perform it in stages, it will make it possible to figure it out in more detail in this matter.
- Of course, it is advisable to drive the car to the observation pit, it will create full access to detail and more comfortable working conditions. Therefore, we find out where you can use the pit, and drive the car.
- After a successful check-in to the pit need to fix parking brake, Run the steering wheel. It is also recommended to disconnect the battery.
- We take a jack, install it directly in the area of \u200b\u200bthe alleged replacement. After that, we raise the car and install additional safety goats. Since the replacement of the steering thrust occurs, this action needs to be duplicated and on the other side. After the machine is raised and fixed, the jack can be removed.
- It is desirable before you carry out work, handle all the fasteners that you have to unscrew. I advise you to use VD-40 for these purposes. This will allow without much effort to loosen the mount and speed up the whole process.
- Now you can remove the wheels. The procedure is familiar to all. You need to unscrew the lock nuts on the mounting bolts and remove the wheels from them.
- First of all, you need to unscrew the nut on the hinge of the thrust, which that is attached to the swivel lever.
- Further turn the ball finger. For this purpose, a special tool is useful. With it, this process is more pleasant. If you do not have it, then without a hammer and mounts, it's not to do here (I'm not kidding).
- After that, you need to bend the lock plate and unscrew the mount to which the steering thrust are attached to the steering mechanism. So we removed steering cravings.
- To disconnect the tip you need to hold the steering crave in the tessets. After that it is necessary to loosen the mounting of the tip and the coupling.
- To execute proper installation A new tip, when removing the old one, you need to make a note of its position or count and remember the coils.
- The replacement of the anther is a necessary event. To do this, you need to remove the sealing ring that holds it, and remove the boot.
- Now you can start installing new parts. The tip is set primarily. Wear a new boot and tip to turn on your finger according to the marks made.
- Next, the assembly occurs in the reverse order.
In fact, the replacement of the steering thrust and tips should not cause you any difficulties. Now it is necessary to check the work performed. If you have done everything right, you must have the following results:
- The backlash should not be present in new traction;
- The steering wheel should have a smooth and continuous move. The amount of its revolutions to the right and left should be equal. It must also return to the original position after performing the maneuver;
- After a run of 800 kilometers, you must perform extraordinary adjustment.
After completing the work on the replacement, it is advisable to make the collapse. This will avoid buying new rubber.
Important tips:
- Before you begin to take the same equipment, you need to prepare the entire necessary tool.
- Prepare also clean rags and containers with clean water. This is undoubtedly useful as for cleaning parts and for pre-washing hands after work.
- Replace it is better to produce over the repair pit.
- To create increased security, use hemp or goats. The jack is not desirable to use long. It serves only for lifting the car.
How to replace the steering tip and how to make a replacement, for you no longer is a mystery. Now it remains to purchase a new set of elements. If you want to change and forget about the repair for a long time, you need to buy only high-quality details. IN this case Savings are not to the place. I wish you success in an additional study of your car in the process of replacing parts.
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The steering tip is a rod with a hinge device at the end. Inside the hinge there is a liner and a washer, they prevent the premature wear of the details. The hinge lay a lubricant, all this is protected by a boot from moisture and dirt. On the opposite side of the hinge on the stock there is a thread for connecting with a steering wheel. On the hinge finger itself, there is also a thread. The finger is running into the hole on the rotary pin and is fixed with the nut. In this way, the tip is connected to the pin.
Faults and causes of steering faults
The main fault of the steering tip is the wear of the hinge compound. Fast wear occurs because of moisture or dirt into the connection itself. This is due to damage to the anther. Then the tips have their own definite resource - they change somewhere 40 thousand mileage kilometers. The steering tip may be damaged as a result of an accident or hitting an obstacle.
How to define malfunctions in the steering
When buying a used car, there is a high probability that there may be various malfunctions. Defects in the steering control, including tips, can be revealed, sowing behind the wheel of this car.
The first thing you need to do is twist the steering wheel. Too much free steering wheel suggests the wear of the parts of the steering system.
In another, defects find out, riding on the car. About malfunctions can speak the heavy steering wheel on turns. If the car is driving the car to the side, it is also worth thinking whether everything is fine.
On the worn items of the steering system may indicate different knocks in the front suspension while driving around the uneven road. But the newcomer will be difficult to determine what exactly knocks - the details of the suspension or steering.
Revealing steering faults
You can identify a malfunction of the tip with sufficient accuracy on the automotive lift.
The first method is the easiest - using a visual inspection. A faulty tip can be deformed by hitting. Torn boot also gives reason to think. If the tip is wet, most likely, the lubricant left it, and the part requires replacement. The tip with an unnatural modified metal color is probably at the last stage of its existence - it overheats and twisted.
And finally, you can check the backlash in the tips, pulling the steering thrust by mounting. The backlash in the hinge compound speaks of the unfortunate detail. With a subfluous steering tip, thrust move with great difficulty.
Conclusion
After checking before buying such methods, the parts of the steering, you can immediately decide which details will need to be changed immediately after purchasing a car. Because of such trifles like faulty steering tips, it is not worth refusing to refuse, but it is impossible to ride with such faults.
Steering is one of the important components of the vehicle. Not only comfortable movement depends on its condition, but also safety while driving, both for the driver and for the rest of the movement. This control unit consists of several components that need to be checked on wear and health from time to time. One of these elements are thrust and steering tip (in the steering control two). These parts allow you to rotate the wheels of the car under the necessary angle, contributing to high maneuverability. And in order to increase the life of the levers data, it is necessary to promptly recognize the signs of the steering tips.
It is very important occasionally to inspect not only the external state of the car, but also to look under it. Thus, you can promptly warn breakdown any detail or node as a whole. This check does not take much time and forces, and for this it is not necessary to be an expert in cars. To determine a malfunction, it is better to ask a friend to help you, since it takes two people to determine the presence of a backlash. In addition, you can check the item for mechanical damage.
The thrust comes in a malfunction much less frequently than tips.
To perform the primary inspection of steering tips, you need to perform the following:
Signs of breakdowns
The second can be called consumable material. Their service life, on average, is no more than forty thousand kilometers. To increase this indicator, it is necessary to ride only on a flat surface and drive a very careful car.
So let's consider the basic signs of breakage that can lead a car in a malfunction. 
- The backlash is a clear sign. If, when moving at low speeds, you started to notice that the wheels of your car rotate not according to the rotation of the steering wheel, then you need to check the steering mechanism. This should be performed urgently, the presence of a backlash can lead to the worst consequences.
- Return to the steering wheel. If when driving you started noticeing the power of the steering wheel, it is also a bell to check the steering thrust and tips.
- The appearance of abnormal sounds. If the boot is damaged, then the dust appears and settles the connection. Thus, when the element is working, sounds appear. In the future, such conditions can lead to premature wear of these parts.
It is very important to respond in time to the emergence of freelance deviations in the work of your car. Try to give the diagnostics as much time as possible. Such an attitude will allow you to maintain your car and its components for a long time.
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The key element of the steering system is the tip of the steering thrust. From the serviceability of this mechanism, which is responsible for the rotations of the wheels, not only the possibility of a comfortable control of the car, but also the safety of the driver and passengers. Therefore, at the first signs pointing to the error of the tip, it is necessary to make diagnosis and repair.
The steering system is considered one of the most important elements of any modern car. To ensure a safe and comfortable ride, regardless of which road conditions, the car carries out, all parts of the steering system should work simply and smoothly.
Steering thrusts that are equipped with special steering tips, as well as swivel levers, are a key element of the entire steering mechanism. Steering thrust are designed to ensure the mobility of steering drive elements. Only if these mechanisms are fully working, you can be confident in the uninterrupted operation of the steering.
The principle of operation of the steering traction
The steering traction transfers effort from the steering wheel on the wheels. Main function It is to control the rotation of the wheels. It is the tip of the steering thrust responsible for the ability of the car to perform the necessary maneuvers, providing an appropriate angle of rotation of the leading wheels. Thus, the driver gets the ability to control the car comfortably and easily.
The tip of the steering thrust includes such composite elementslike a ball finger, housing, polymer bearing, boot. It is worth noting that there are universal tips of the steering thrust that are the same for any wheels. But there may be differences that depend on whether the tip of the steering thrust is supplied to the left or to the right wheel.
Why do the tip of the tip of the steering thrust occur?
Tip malfunctions can be caused by failures in the functioning of the steering rod system as a whole. The tips of the steering thrust failed cause difficult problems in the work of the entire steering system. This, in turn, will begin threatening the safety of riding this carSince the driver will be difficult to control the situation, choosing the necessary trajectory of movement.
To avoid serious problemswhich can be poured not only in expensive repairs, but also will threaten the safety of the driver and passengers, it is important to diamitude to diagnose the tips of the steering thrust for problems. If there is a need, tips are subject to urgent replacement.
Have a certain service life, which depends on many factors. First of all, the duration of the uninterrupted work of the tips is affected by the quality road coat, in which the machine is operated. Of course, you should not underestimate the importance of driving style.
Permanent riding in bad roads is destroyed not only the car suspension, but also adversely affects the state of the steering tip, which fails much faster than it is supposed. If we take into account the average indicators, then we can say that the tip of the steering thrust must maintain the uninterrupted operation of the steering system for 40 thousand kilometers.
How to identify the steering tip malfunctions?
Any driver must alert a sharp knock, which occurs when driving on potholes, no matter how small they seem at first glance. In addition, in the pedal of gas begins to feel the return. Such signs should alert the driver and cause the diagnostics of the steering system, which must be made immediately. If, when checking the steering thrust, the backlash is detected, it means that the tip of the steering thrust is defective. In this case, it is necessary to repair it, if possible, or replace.
According to the rules of road traffic, the main criterion for the health of the steering of the car is the total backlash that for passenger cars and created on their base trucks And buses should not exceed 10 degrees. But the steering is not just a "Branca", by free go. which is measured by the total backlash, and the totality of nodes, providing the driver with the necessary direction of movement of the vehicle when rotating the "Baranki" by turning its front wheels.
Which of these nodes most often becomes the culprit exceeding the permissible total backlash, making it impossible to pass vehicle state technical inspection and receiving admission to participate in road traffic? According to the statistics of appeals to the service station, the most restless place in the steering is the outer tips of the steering.
How this tips looks outside, does not know, probably only lazy.
But what is done inside them and for what reasons they fail, will show an opening of the instance, the design of which in general can be called typical for tips used in modern cars.
As you can see, the tip is a ball hinge consisting of a relatively small set of parts.
Based on the functional purpose of the tip, the main set in this set is the ball finger and the liners from the polymer material, also called breadcrumbs.
The liners cover the ball head of the finger, while the lower rouse through the round pressure plate is constantly pressed to the finger of the conical spring. This, firstly, eliminates the gaps appearing in the hinge due to the wear of the sugar and the head of the finger, and secondly, the dynamic loads transmitted by the tip when rolling the wheels through road irregularities are damaged. It also increases the life of the tip.
Mentioned parts are placed in the housing with the bottom cover-plug. The cover is roles into the housing, a seal is provided between them, which prevents dirt from entering the body from the side of the plug.
From the opposite side, a dustproof case is spilled in the corps, the purpose of which is understandable from the name. Taking into account the fact that the finger can rotate relative to the body in different directions, the finger shank seal is provided by a special opening edge profile in the case.
With such a device, the lubricant is laid inside the hinge during its production and during operation is not updated during the entire service life of the node. As a steering tip is connected by one side with a steering wheel, and the other - with the lever of the rotary fist of the wheel, we will see a little lower, as long as we will figure it out that it regulates the service life of the considered structure.
Since everything rests on the backlash, therefore, it is suspicious of the details that are able to wear out. In this regard, the weakest link seems to be a cracker. Their wear is caused by not only friction about the head of the finger, but also with shocks that have to be leaving for a sugar at low speeds at high speed, which can cause crumpled material with sugar.
The spring in the tip devaps the blows, but its damping abilities are not impossible at all - it all depends on the strength of the blow, and it is determined by the speed with which the wheel turns to the edge potholes on the road.
The ball head of the finger in the manufacture of cementing and polished, so if it is wearing, it is much slower than sugar. But it is capable of rust. The finger taken to cut the tip demonstrates it as it is impossible.
The fact that he was once polished, does not resemble nothing. However, and such corrosion, like a finger shank, is not visible on the head. The surface of the head is covered with a layer of something black, through this layer rust makes its way only with separate points.
But so the head looked only until I rubbed her sandpaper.
The black layer came up easily, after which the hidden under it was apparent. The surface of the ball was interrogated by corrosive sinks. They must work like the grater, which accelerate the wear of the crackers. And the black layer is what, apparently, turned the lubricant from time to time, once laid in the hinge.
But that the head of the finger began to rust, the moisture should penetrate into the tip. And to get inside the hinge, it can through cracks and ruptures that appeared in a dust cover, or if it stopped being a hermetic edge of the hole in the case. Since the cracked tip of the crack was found in the bellow, most likely, it was precisely the leakage of the hole under the shank, it became a population of the exit of the tip.
Wear and corrosion - other operating reasons that cause the need to replace steering tips, does not happen. Accordingly, that the tips do not fail to fail a period of time, only two conditions are required - the tightness of dust covers and the absence of large loads in the contact places of the ball head with liners.
Unfortunately, keep the anthers under control, periodically checking their condition for the appearance of cracks and breaks, it makes sense only in those tip structures where the cover is possible. For the tip that has fallen under the cutting disk "Bulgarian", this is not provided. With the second condition of the durability of the tips, it is easy to not "fly" by car, without disassembling roads.
IN kinematic scheme steering wheel steering tips bind steering thrust with levers swivel kulakov wheels. The rod with an internal thread, which is a continuation of the housing, the tip is screwed up on the threaded end of the steering thrust, and the tip is connected to the pivot lever.
This means that for replacing the tip, you need to disassemble only two threaded connections, which, if you wish, to save allows you to change the tips on your own without serious time and strength costs.
The logic of the connections suggests the order of operation: first the old tip must be disconnected with the rotary lever, then turn out from the steering thrust.
The new tip is set in the reverse order.
Underwater stone is only one. The fastening to the swivel lever is ensured by a threaded part of the shank, but that the touch of the finger of the tip with the lever was unkind, part of the shank and the response opening in the swivel lever are conical. It is problematic to disconnect the finger from the lever.
Ideally, it is necessary to have a device for extracting your finger. With his absence, you will have to knock out the finger of the lever. It is better to do it with the help of a poppy. The procedure can be facilitated if before knocking a finger several times to hit the hammer in the bobbish of the rotary lever. It should not have anything terrible with the boss, but if there are fears, it is possible to beat in a gravel through the same paint, if it is brass or made from another relatively soft material.
Difficulties with turning the tip of the steering thrust occurs rarely, and in order for their probability to minimize, before installing the new tip, the threaded part of the thrust is preferably lubricated.
Since the replacement of the tip involves the removal of the wheel, and in the field of operation will be carried out using the jack on the observation ditch or at all on the ground, you must not forget about the safety and necessarily take all precautions.
There is always an economic effect from repairing on its own, but will the save save? So that this does not happen, it will still have to visit.
The fact is that after installing the new tip, most likely, the total length of the steering thrust will change with the tip, which will lead to a violation of the installation of the wheel in the part called the contention.
You can, of course, calculate the number of revolutions that you have to do to unscrew the old tip, and exactly the same revolutions to complete the new one, but it is not necessary that the part that purchased in the parts will be an accurate geometric copy of the replaced part. Therefore, after replacing the tip on the collapse, it is better to go better.
