Method of assembling steering assembly

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B23P 19/04 (2006.01) B62D 1/20 (2006.01) B62D 65/12 (2006.01) F16D 1/08 (2006.01)

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CA 2019093

ABSTRACT A method of assembling such a steering assembly that a socket to be serration-fitted to an input shaft of a gear box which is mounted on a suspension assembly is connected to a steering shaft via a steering joint, said method comprising the steps of: measuring a phase of said socket of said steering assembly at the time when a steering wheel is aligned in a neutral posture while said steering assembly is maintained in the same articulated condition as that in which said steering assembly is assembled to a car body and while said steering wheel is serration-fitted to said steering shaft of said steering assembly; adjusting a phase of said input shaft such that said input shaft can be serration- fitted into said socket which is in said phase measured in the preceding step, said adjustment being performed by rotating said input shaft within an angular range corresponding to half pitch of serrations of said input shaft in either direction from a neutral position in which the steering angles to the right and to the left are equal; adjusting the toes of the right and the left wheels to a condition in which the car can run straight, while said input shaft is maintained in said adjusted phase; engaging a guide member which determines the phase of said socket relative to said input shaft, with said input shaft in such a phase relationship that said socket becomes substantially equal in phase to said measured phase when said input shaft is in said adjusted phase; assembling said suspension assembly and said steering assembly with said steering wheel detached therefrom to the car body; and serration-fitting said socket of said steering assembly to said input shaft of said suspension assembly by guiding said socket with said guide member.

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