Good to have you back Gibber, looking forward to catching up with your exploits

Am looking for escort driver from next may, to drive 1ton highlux on two mth landyacht trip. Giving up doing it on my own .

the excort vehicle for nxt year, need a driver for two mths, must be unafraid of the outback
no trailer, transport rack over tray and cab, same as cartransporter ,carry at 30 degrees very little weight l/y 3mtr w/b

Is it a Yellow 1927 Chevrolet?

OOOOO.... The yellow thing,,,, sigh...

at it big time, but mainstream business, still in slumberland and causing some consternation. Never fear it will all work its way along the time line. My budget dosent cater for big dollar outlay, just small and steady spending, thats OK will get there. nothing real to photograph as yet, that will happen soon too, hard, aint it hard , hard, hard, but not impossible..?...?. cheers... gibba

easter again, just makes one older. The Brass Band (australian championships) is on in Gawler this weekend, so i went an watched the parade this am. Tons of talent on show with local and imported interpretations. Goldfields bought their version of a gold rush, turned the local kids into diggers. Found TP1 and had some yackety yak, will go and watch them tomorrow in their grade "C" quest for fame.
Another event comming up here is SA soon is The Lost Stories Of Henry Hoke, on the saturday 28th may at the Terowie Institute, gold coin donation gets one in, for a review of Australia's Greatest Unknown Inventor, so come and enjoy the fine art of pure Bulldust ! Its being bought to you by The Institute of Backyard Studies, see facebook or email [email protected] I located one of henrys tools, you may have one too, come and tell your story.
On the landyacht front, slow but forward progress is being achieved, a photo could be called for, very soon, drive safe, play it cool...?.

We came second in a field of 10

Leg irons??

Sorry ......all wrong, wrong just wrong....a clue --- to do with water

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Willos mens shed Gawler + some of our estemed staff , n, my little nooky work area

Well made the big 70 yesterday......... hey it's not too bad !..
and that my friends deserved another cake, - ginger, banana, carrot, n, rum and cupachino..

post up some pics on what you have, and we'll give it a go....

Most steering arms (when viewed from above and carrying it's designed weight/load ) should be angled back to the centre of the rear axle.
So that an imaginary line is drawn through the centre of the king pin, (at axle height) and then back to the centre of the rear axle. This line should intersect the centre of the tie-rod ends vertical shaft on the back of the steering arm.

The reason for this is the inside wheel in a turn is required to scribe a much tighter circle than the outside wheel. This geometry enables both wheels to roll around at the correct radius without a tyre scrubbing or hopping.

Your inclined kingpins will also help this too, but are more suited to a close coupled setup like a short wheel based quad bike. Not so much kingpin angle is required for your length, but not so critical for your requirements and lower speeds. Just that your wheels will lay over a lot when turning sharply.

A lawn mower for example has the steering arms setup above (almost parallel) to the axle and simply reverses the turning action with a pressed steel "rack and pinion" setup to reverse it. The radius of this rack allows for the required for and aft moment to steer correctly. Their design is pretty rough though, but suits low speed applications.

That is spot on Joe.
If you heat the arm and bend it at the axle attachment point it will be even stronger. (without the right angle tab at the end trying to twist it)

I think a bell-crank system may be needed like this. (BUT only if you cant get you head round an aircraft rudder steering system, push right and go right......... like "landyacht" failed at , while piloting my yacht).