Abstract: A vehicle has a steerable wheel on an axle, a fender, and a fender mount for supporting the fender on the axle adjacent to the steerable wheel. The fender mount has a bracket fixed to the axle, an arm fixed to the fender and a flexible bushing coupled between the bracket and the arm. The bushing is rotatably flexible about a torsion axis and is bendably flexible in directions transverse to the torsion axis. The bushing includes a flexible core and a pair of wedge-shaped end caps fixed to opposite ends of the core. The bushing has a central axis which is tilted rearwardly with respect to a fore-and-aft axis of the wheel and which is tilted away from the wheel.

Abstract: Maneuverability of a work vehicle having front steerable drive wheels is improved by increasing steering clearance. The front drive axle is pivoted to the vehicle for pivotal movement about a fore-and-aft extending oscillation centerline located above the lateral centerline of the axle. The drive shaft is in substantially collinear alignment with the oscillation centerline. The axle has an input shaft that is below and in substantially parallel alignment with the oscillation centerline and is substantially perpendicular to the lateral centerline of the axle. The drive shaft and the input shaft are drivingly connected by intermeshing drive and driven gears mounted on the drive and input shafts, respectively.