"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
05/06/2015 at 09:33 • Filed to: Tie rod, Track rod
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"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
05/06/2015 at 09:33 • Filed to: Tie rod, Track rod | 0
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We’ve learned today that ZF and their new subsidiary TRW are two of the three companies who make “tie rods”. Tie rods are obviously big business and I don’t know what they are. Googles busily, finds that they’re what I would call track rods.
So there we have it. Every day you learn something new.
Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
> Cé hé sin
05/06/2015 at 09:36 |
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Yeah when I started frequenting mostly american sites I learned that. Now I’ve started saying tie rods and most people have no idea what I’m talking about.
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Cé hé sin
> Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
05/06/2015 at 09:37 |
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Next up: “stabiliser bar”. Anti roll bar I think.
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Cé hé sin
05/06/2015 at 09:40 |
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I never hear “stabilis(z)er bar”. I usually hear it abbreviated to “roll bar” or “swaybar”, though.
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Cé hé sin
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
05/06/2015 at 09:42 |
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Sway bar is another new one to me!
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Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
> Cé hé sin
05/06/2015 at 09:45 |
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Don’t forget sway bar. So many differences in car terms, although I do prefer saying hood to bonnet.
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Cé hé sin
05/06/2015 at 09:46 |
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Around here I don’t know anyone but an import shop type who would use the phrase track rod. “Tie rod” is near universal.
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Cé hé sin
> Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
05/06/2015 at 09:48 |
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I never use hood in that sense. What happens if you go and buy a convertible?
“Could you open the hood, dear, it’s such a nice day?”
“Why, do you want to change the oil?”
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Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
> Cé hé sin
05/06/2015 at 09:50 |
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I actually rarely hear people call a folding roof a hood. Usually they just say roof.
twochevrons
> Cé hé sin
05/06/2015 at 09:51 |
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And “sills” are “rocker panels,” too. No idea how that works — I understand calling the valve cover on a pushrod engine the “rocker cover,” but sills? Really?
Leon711
> Cé hé sin
05/06/2015 at 09:52 |
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to be fair, in industrial applications they are known at tie rods, even in the UK.
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Cé hé sin
> twochevrons
05/06/2015 at 09:53 |
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They are? Weirder and weirder.
nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
> Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
05/06/2015 at 10:07 |
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non convertible - roof
convertible - top
Shift24
> Cé hé sin
05/06/2015 at 10:14 |
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Always thought suspension it was a bit more universal. so i wonder what isnt? spindle knuckle, half shaft, A Arm?
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Cé hé sin
> Shift24
05/06/2015 at 10:16 |
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Spindle knuckle??
A arm??
Those would be two more...
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Shift24
> twochevrons
05/06/2015 at 10:22 |
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Sills? never heard of that before but Rocker Panels here are a part of the car body. Not the best diagram but its the lower part of the body
tromoly
> Cé hé sin
05/06/2015 at 10:22 |
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Aurora Bearing is the go-to for many, they have a LOT of product that is top quality and it’s all made 20 miles from my parent’s house.
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Shift24
> Cé hé sin
05/06/2015 at 10:26 |
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Best way to show it but A arms are just the control arms. Supposedly the spindle knuckle is also the steering knuckle? never heard it called that though.
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Cé hé sin
> Shift24
05/06/2015 at 10:34 |
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The knuckle’s usually called an upright.
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Shift24
05/06/2015 at 10:40 |
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Generally when I hear the word “spindle” it’s not with the unnecessary “knuckle” attached. Just spindle.
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> twochevrons
05/06/2015 at 10:42 |
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Different kind of rocker. From a discussion I found online searching “rocker panel etymology”, this is what the Oxford dictionary has:
They have the use of “rocker” as “the false bottom beneath the bottom framing, intended to give greater height” on a carriage going back to 1794 and it’s use in reference to an automobile in a body repair manual from 1921.I’m suspecting that it’s origins have to do with the definition of “rocker” which means “one of the pieces of wood with a convex under-surface fixed to each end of a cradle, to the legs of a chair, or any other thing, in order to enable it to rock”. So I’m imagining that the wood parts below the passenger area in a carriage looked like the “rockers” on a rocking chair, and the term was carried over to old “horseless carriage” type cars and then to more modern bodied cars.
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Cé hé sin
05/06/2015 at 10:43 |
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http://community.cartalk.com/discussion/212…
Found a discussion on that. “Rocker panel” apparently dates from the days of carriages.
pip bip - choose Corrour
> Cé hé sin
05/07/2015 at 06:49 |
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aka rack ends