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Originally Posted by 97 SL320
Too fast or slow is relative to the length of the steering arms at the spindles. Longer steering arms will give slower steering.
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Yes, both play a roll. In the extreme a rack that required 10 turns lock to lock would be much slower than one that only took 1 turn lock to lock.
And in the case of this Mercedes there is even one more variable. The pitman arm and the ???arm on the passenger side leverage/increase the distance of travel also.
Yesterday I re-installed the steering box and connected the drag link and tie rod to map out the sweep and location of the inner tie rod points to be able to duplicate with the rack and pinion. The sweep of the pitman arm moves the drag link a total of 6 3/8". Yet, because of the leveraged way the tie rods are connected to the drag link, the tie rods actually move a total of 8 1/4".
