Talk Morgan Forums Thread Like Summary - Plus 6 'skipping' on full lock

When I am manoeuvring my 23 Plus 6 in and out (ie going backwards and forwards) of parking spaces, the front wheels seem to 'skip' or 'jump' when I'm on full lock. It's like they are not quite pointing the the same direction of are out of sync...

Is this a 'trait' of the Plus 6 or should I get the steering/suspension checked?

Thanks in advance!

Yep, I'm with CooperMan and Akermann's principle. Prior to motor vehicles coming into being they even used a simple variation of this theme on horse drawn wagons to aid tight turns but with driven wheels a differential was required to allow the inner rear wheel to have less rotation than the outer wheel even under a driving force(rear wheels only originally) when turning but then they found that more accuracy was required to let the steering wheels behave whilst traveling on different circumferences and not fight each other to acquire a different steering track ie. to drive on a parallel track whilst turning. There is a limit of range in which this can be achieved and at the extremes of steering lock it starts to go out of a compatible angle, coupled with the tyre profile and footprint of the inner wheel it becomes unable to track a suitable radius in both wheels and so in effect drags or skips on the inner wheel and I suspect this is what you are experiencing. The Morgan is light and so isn't damped by a heavy engine at these extremes of tyre drag and having a fairly long wheel base and narrow track coupled I imagine with perhaps a degree or so more steering lock than would restrict this happening so much: in order to achieve the best slow speed maneuverability I imagine, was seen as acceptable as after all you won't be using that amount of steering lock when driving normally which will then be well within Ackemanns steering criteria. Imagine the car being twice as long you would in fact have very little maneuverability, well if Morgan hadn't allowed the steering rack to produce a lock slightly beyond a perfect result then tight and slow maneuvering would present problems. How this is fully achieved requires more detail than I want to go into here and in trying to keep it simple I hope I haven't done the opposite. Martin.