Steering help

[DMS]

Hello i recently got a lawn tractor that had a bad engine. I put another engine on it and it was working. decided to do a pulley swap for a little more speed as i was doing that i decided to make a new clutch, then i saw that the turning mechanism was garbage, it was all bad so i cut the gears off and started to do a new design but now i'm stuck. The one i tried didn't work(pics below). Can someone please give me advice or if you know how to do it let me know please, Thanks.

 

[Half-breeder]

Make n model of the tractor plz...

 

[DMS]

i know its a a Yard Machines 20hp 42", not sure about the model.

 

[OzFab]

Let me guess, you turn the steering wheel right & the tractor goes left?

 

[DMS]

Let me guess, you turn the steering wheel right & the tractor goes left?

no i got past that point haha

 

[itsid]

well it looks like you had a rack/pinion setup originally..
and now the lever isn't actually a good replacement for that.

here's an exploded view of a similar rack/pinion system of some (other?) yard machine:


as you can see the end of the steering shaft should have a pinion driving this gear:

I hope that helps at least a bit

I'm pretty confident to assume your's was just like that originally.

'sid