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The former electric power steering has reverted to a hydraulic rack-and-pinion.
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Andy Rooney voiceDontcha just hate it when a cadaver messes with your rack-and-pinion?
"He apparently felt something. The car was not driving in a normal fashion." Ann Althouse 2009
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It has been well cared for, with some repairs such as replacing the rack-and-pinion steering, and has some minor dents and bruises.
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In the event that power is interrupted i.e. power failure the door will close manually like a rack-and-pinion closing device.
Electronics Prop | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009
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The lift bottoms out near the rack-and-pinion machinery that raises and lowers its neighbors.
On Las Vegas Stages, Daring Feats of Engineering Steal the Show 2007
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Second, my future classic 1988 Pontiac 6000 LE Safari went in for major surgery yesterday (new rack-and-pinion and brakes).
November 2004 2004
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Suspension Type: Fully independent, MacPherson strut suspension, front and rear antivibration subframes, and engine-speed-sensing, progressive power-assisted rack-and-pinion steering
2006 Lexus RX400h 2006
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It will have a new rack-and-pinion, new brakes, and a new master brake cylinder.
November 2004 2004
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~ The ~coarse adjustment~ (Fig. 40, c) should be a rack-and-pinion movement, steadiness and smoothness of action being secured by means of accurately fitting dovetailed bearings and perfect correspondence between the teeth of the rack and the leaves of the pinion (Fig. 42).
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The rack-and-pinion railway from Montricheux to the Dents de Loup wound upward like a single filament flung round the mountains by some giant spider.
The Vision of Desire Margaret Pedler
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