Our training programs are also available to Australian based truck manufacturers where we conduct technical service training at OEM head office or dealer level in addition to using our facilities in Melbourne. We take it as a great compliment that we are given the added responsibility of running truck steering schools for some of Australia’s key truck manufacturers.

Training technical and workshop staff to accurately troubleshoot and understand heavy vehicle steering related problems is a whole lot easier. Until now, the opportunity to experience, first hand, the many mechanical and hydraulic faults, that truck drivers feel has been time consuming and difficult to diagnose.

Now there is a new, sophisticated, service training rig that provides the opportunity for workshop staff to experience some of the common steering faults first hand. This revolutionary new 'Fault Steering Simulator' also eliminates the need to get behind the steering wheel of the actual truck to experience the fault.

Hydrosteer, Australia's leading heavy vehicle steering specialist recognized this need after conducting training sessions at workshops and further education institutes.

The system consists of a partial truck frame mounted on a trailer, then mounted onto this is a front steer axle, steering gear and some very sophisticated hydraulics to accurately simulate thirteen of the most common steering faults.

The rig is designed in such a way that the simulated faults are the same as they would feel at the steering wheel of a truck. Trainees use a standard hydraulic test kit, similar to that used in their own workshop, to diagnose the fault that is being simulated and to ensure that realism is maintained.

Some of the common faults that can be simulated are low pressure, low flow, low pressure, internal leaks, worn pumps, leaking internal valves, partially seized steering gears, steering columns with excessive friction, air contamination, noisy power steering pumps, incorrect steering shaft universal joint phasing and incorrect lock limiting plunger adjustment.