Complete Steering Australia (CSA), established in 2001 after Complete Truck Alignment (founded in 1988), continues to strive to be at the very forefront of heavy vehicle commercial power steering.
It offers the very best of services in their modern well-equipped locations in Melbourne (Laverton North) and Brisbane (Stapylton) with future plans of other locations. Business development manager, Peter Elliott, says CSA also has factory trained diagnostic centres in regional cities to complement the service offering for fleet and owner drivers – ensuring power steering systems function as they were designed to do.
CSA are specialists in rectifying steering faults, which include complaints of hard steering, locking up and wandering.
Among its service offerings, CSA can perform steering gear re-seals and repairs for TRW, ZF, Bosch, Sheppard and other European and Japanese makes.
It also conducts pump re-seals and repairs for TRW, ZF, Vickers, LUK and other European and Japanese makes.
Other services include accident damage inspection for steering gears (for all brands), power steering installation and conversion, and steering design and fault correction.
CSA is also able to supply both genuine and aftermarket parts to support full steering systems from the steering wheel down to the front axle, including all components in between.
As a well-respected commercial power steering company CSA can professionally assist with complete steering system design, steering gears, pitman arms, steering conversions, power steering pumps, linkage and steering column rebuilds.
CSA’s power steering FUN facts #1 – Alignment is everything
But it is not just about stopping tyre wear and keeping your wheels both pointing the same way. Every good wheel alignment starts by first ensuring the steering gearbox is properly aligned in the centre position.
If the steering gear isn’t in the correct position, then nothing else in the steering will be correctly aligned.
Everything else must be set off centre, if the gear is off centre. This includes the steering wheel, the slip shaft phasing, the pitman arm, the draglink and tie rods. They could all be incorrectly adjusted if the steering gear isn’t in the central position to start with.
Toe in out and castor and camber corrections can’t fix a steering gear that’s not set in the correct position!
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