Individual Post Week 1 5/30/17 - 6/2/17

In this intro week, my team and myself were thrust into the previous bogie design from the 2016 - 2017 year. After a brief introduction of what we are to work on, there were somethings that went wrong with the previous year's bogie that needed to be fixed, which includes the bent steering rod at the top of the priority list.

Figure 1
Twisted Steering shaft


Even though we have taken the majority of the bogie apart the steering shaft remains lodged in the bogie due to several defined constraints that can't be removed.

Figure 2

Constrained gearbox

The gearbox is held in by a welded plate and press fitted bearings which prevent the gearbox from moving about, but thus creates it extremely difficult to remove.



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