5.3 Inspection after reassembling the steering system
(1) Check the force when turning the steering handwheel to right and left until it can’t
be turned any more to see if they are identical each other and check the operation if the
steering handwheel for smoothness during above operation.
(2) Check the arrangement of the hydraulic pipeline and the turning direction for
correctness.
(3) Lift up the rear wheels and slowly turn the handwheel over several times to
exhaust the air in the hydraulic pipelines and the cylinder.
5.4 Troubleshooting of steering system
Flow-divider blocked or damaged
Hose or joint damaged or pipeline blocked
Difficult to
turn
handwheel
Too low oil pressure from flow-divider
Air in steering oil circuit
Steering unit fail to reposition due to spring
piece damaged or insufficient elasticity
Excessive inner-leakage in steering cylinder
Truck’s naking
or moving with
oscillation
Excessive flow rate for steering
Adjust flow divider
for flow rate
Spring damaged or elasticity insufficient
Too low oil level in oil tank
Suction pipeline or oil filter blocked
Seals of guide sleeve, pipeline or joint
damaged