If your hot rod happens to be a traditional domestic muscle car built between 1964 and 1972, one of the top steering wheel choices on your list will be an authentic period-correct, OE-look ...

I think it's pretty safe to assume that we all begin planning the assembly of our street rod ... standard steering gear, manual or power assist, and our choice of column and steering wheel styles.

The tube has openings on each end to allow the rack to attach to an axial rod. The pinion gear connects to the steering shaft so that the gear will spin and move the rack when the steering wheel ...

Without tie rods, your front wheels wouldn’t move when you turn the steering wheel. Nissan adds that it takes “a high input force,” such as hitting a curb, to bend either tie rod.

and degree of rear steering indexed to steering wheel input. This shaft led to a sliding rod that acted like the rack of a rack and pinion steering gear, carrying that input to the rear wheels.