and did the ball joints. That is all.

BTW. Table saw and a bench grinder is the best for shaping the big LCA bushing into shape.

 

 

Shawnboy, take pics of your PCV filter. You said you made a breather thingie. I was looking at mine and if you want to do PCV -> hose -> filter -> hose -> intake. You would have to mount it somewhere on the firewall. You sure you weren't talking about the valve cover breather?

 

was mounted on the back side of the intake manifold



used a mini air filter breather thing from harbor freight and some hose. Didn't cover the valve cover vent tube, but that didn't seem to ever get dirty with my car






edit: going to school
edit2: only really ran it because I wasn't looking forward to cleaning the intake manifold again.

 

How did it work? Well?

 

BTW. Thanks Internetautomar for the PS hose(and all the suspension pieces). Fit perfect.

 

meh

worked. fun to build, didn't really accumulate much. I completely forgot about it until I was looking over everything to try and remember if I forgot anything lol.

Accidently broke it a few days ago

 

Harbor freight? What's that?

 

www.harborfreight.com

 

how is the ride now with poly? louder or not or just better?

also i think i saw mr gone yesterday.....

 

Its a tool company....http://www.harborfreight.com/


edit tooooo late.....

 

Jeff did you have any problems getting the bottom of the ps hose off? Any tips if you gotem....


Im having a problem getting that part off my parts car.....

 

You know the top one was the biach. There's nothing to keep it really secure. I had to put some wood blocks inbetween the hose end and the windshield wiper motor to support it.

The bottom was was cake. Just happend to have a 3/4" drive and a 24mm(?) socket. But since the control arm was out, I might have had alot easier time with it. One reason they were both done at the same time.

 

You know, there wasn't much difference. Either in handling or ride. But it's only been one day. It has to be better though. The D-side bushing was just terrible. Very loose from beeing soaked in PS fluid for years.

 

I have to do my bushing again :-\
she now goes clunk from time to time.
maybe I should just do the ES upgrade
but I already fixed the leak

 

Mine never went "clunk". Actually no noise. But I knew the bushing was bad. Little bits and pieces would come off every once in awhile. Brian, the poly is easy. Just burn the the old ones out/carefully slice the outer ring out. Then you have to cut the big **** bushing to shape (or use your stockers if they are new).

 

I saw my bushing being bad when I did the alternator.
and then I started feeling the clunk like I did when the bushing was bad the first time.
I'll probably keep my rear bushings they still looked ok to me.

 

told ya

 

Yeah but it had to be done. Better now than when the LCA falls off at some wierd time. Plus I wanted to do the ball joints anyway.

 

IBsqueeks

 

No squeaks.

 

not yet

 

I tried to slather that grease everywhere. How long did it take for yours to squeak? My rear poly parallel links are still quiet.

 

few months

not bad though, only really did it going over the driveway curb. Probably just the speed + ammount of travel.

 

hmm.. my poly bushings have been on for over a year now and they don't squeak

 

My rear polys have been quiet for the last month or so also. I made sure to put as much ES bushing lube as I possibly could. Man that stuff is sticky. Had to use brakeclean to get it off. Soap/water = nothing.

 

its easy when you dont drive the car

 

Had a chance to drive it a bit harder once I knew the suspension wasn't gonna fall out. There is defintely an improvement. Just more solid. Going around the same turns at the same speed results in much firmer steering. I actually turned in too much a few times. The handling is much flatter. Not a big difference in a RSB addition or springs/shocks. But much more than a FSTB install. Of course it depends on how bad your originals were. My d-side bushings were fine. But the ball joint was a little loose. Not rattling/flopping around loose but not much effort was required to move it around. The P-side control arm bushing was terrible as mentioned. But that side's ball joint was okay. The new Moog units were 2-3x more firm and harder to move around though. But what the hell, 130k miles later, it was time regardless. Now maybe I can finally get this damned thing aligned.

If you can manage to get the LCAs off w/o too much trouble, then this is a fairly easy thing to change. There is really only a few bolts to take off. And Nissan did a good job at making these things fairly easy to remove. If you can get your hands on a spare set of LCAs and burn out/replace the bushings with poly before tearing into the car, it would make it a 1/2 day job. I waited to cut up the big rear poly bushing until right before the install. But it can be done way before, if you have a spare bushing to measure against. Again, using the table saw made the cutting to size a snap. Especially if you have the angle feature on the saw blade. A bench grinder was best to reduce the outer diameter down a bit so it fit into the bracket. Make it a tad bigger so it will fit snugly into the bracket and body. Can always shave/cut more. Not add!

 

Another update. I put the car on jacks and retighted all the bolts. Everyday I push it more. And the harder I push it, the more it impresses me how well these bushings work (or how crappy my old ones were). I'm still cutting corners a bit shallow because the steering is a tad quicker to reply.

 

Meh, I never noticed a diff with the bushings, but then again, I drive like a little girl

 

Normal driving there is no difference. Maybe a very slight increase in noise. But then again, these RE040s are pretty loud

 

Now THERE'S something to be proud of

 

I drive like a little girl aswell... haven't mastered it like KLoWn though, I'm a works in progress.

 

that's because you have a little girls car

 

yeap

5spd's = girls transmission

 

I was refering to your powder blue rustang