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Series 1 Stagea Pulling To The Left Occasionally?

stoks1

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Hi all,

Well I'm having some more, almost minor problems with my s1 stagea. Occasionally (e.g once every few drives), usually during breaking or situations where the throttle is closed, my stagea pulls to the left, as if the alignment is quite off - which its not as 95% of the time when this doesn't happen it's perfect. It only lasts a few seconds and usually straightens itself out pretty quick so its not terribly critical, but it sure is annoying.

I'm in the process of fixing a few problems which I had when I bought it (not long ago) as can be seen in this thread http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/Pr...ea-t269756.html

So any ideas or experiences? Brakes? power steering? Suspension or something? Or does it sound like an automatic control problem?

Cheers

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Nah. Don't know what a castor bush is...

You'll have to excuse my lack of mechanical knowledge, but on the last service (done by previous owner) it was noted there were cracks in the radius rod bushes(?). Would this be worth looking into?

cheers again

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yeah thats a castor rod bush :D

replace them, probably will probably go away. they are mostly oil filled bushes and they crack and then leak over time thus making the car pull or handly weirdly.

get new ones, nolathane or whiteline bushes. or go all out and get rose joined asdjustable castor arms. depends on how you drive and how comfortable you want it to be :(

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yeah thats a castor rod bush :D

replace them, probably will probably go away. they are mostly oil filled bushes and they crack and then leak over time thus making the car pull or handly weirdly.

get new ones, nolathane or whiteline bushes. or go all out and get rose joined asdjustable castor arms. depends on how you drive and how comfortable you want it to be :(

I'm guessing r33 GTR fits straight in there?

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Yes i have R33 adjustable castor arms. You can just replace the bushes but if you are thinking of getting the eccentric bushes which will give you a fraction more castor you may as well get adjustable castor arms as they are not much more expensive than buying bushes and getting them pressed out and in. With castor arms i am running 6deg on the left and 5.75 deg on the rt ( to compensate for the road camber). Stock you can't get much more than 4.5deg. Some skylines run up to 9deg castor ( the more castor the better your straight line stability esp at speed) but you are limited by the 4wd and 6deg seems enough.

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