A solid steering shaft has a worm gear at its base. The roller gear teeth engage the worm. As the steering wheel rotates the steering shaft and worm, the sector shaft pivots, rotating the pitman ...

In a steering box the nut has teeth that mesh with the sector shaft that has a gear on one end and the Pitman arm on the other. As the steering wheel is turned the nut moves up and down the worm ...

A worm gear on the steering shaft meshes with a roller that's connected to the cross-shaft. When the steering wheel is turned, the worm gear rotates, which moves the roller back and forth ...

Like most low-priced cars of the day, Ford used worm and sector steering. Basically the steering wheel turned a threaded shaft, or the worm, that engaged threads on a shaft, or the sector ...

That includes certain types of the following models: According to the NHTSA report, the recall stems from an improperly produced steering gearbox worm wheel, causing excessive internal friction in ...

and "an insufficient annealing process and high load single unit break-in during production of the worm wheel" means there's too much pressure and not enough grease between the worm wheel and worm ...

According to Honda, the steering gearbox worm wheel can expand when it gets hot or damp, which leads to less grease between the worm wheel and worm gear. In addition, the worm gear spring’s ...

Specifically, the issue originates from the steering gearbox worm wheel, a part that Honda says was improperly produced. The result of this production deficiency is a swelling worm wheel ...