Remove Front Wheel Bearing

[sonicz]

I don't have the adjustable ones, just the solid whiteline non adj ones.

I don't trust the look of caster rods. They look like I can break them with my foot. Is the extra caster really that good? Why don't nissan run more of it from factory? Does it wreck any suspension geometry?

I dont have a problem with buying a $100 adj caster rods but I'm not sure what the point is..

[mrsr32]

gtsboy do you run poly bushes in the rear arms or rose jointed ones like your castor rods?

[GTSBoy]

Good branded caster arms (like Tein, Cusco) are so strong you could beat your car to death with them before bending anything, let along breaking anything. I won't vouch for the cheapy Chinese ones.

Extra caster is highly desirable. it provides you with more camber when the wheels are not straight ahead (so, in corners, where you need it) which improves front end grip a lot. The reason that a lot of car manufacturers don't run a lot of caster is that as you get from the normal low values up into higher amounts (like 5 or more degrees) then the caster starts to negatively affect the self return behaviour of the steering. It affects steering feel a bit. This is fine for people who want to drive agreesively, but no good for the let-go-of-the-wheel-and-let-it-spin-back-brigade.

I wouldn't use rose jointed arms in my main suspension arms front or rear on a street car. They are simply too harsh - transmit too mauch bump, crash and noise into the car. They are also not roadworthy because rose joints arre not well protected against dirt entry so they wear fast, leading to failure. I'll put up with that on the caster arms, but not anywhere else.

I might be tempted to use adjustable arms that are the same as all the rose jointed ones but have hard rubber bushes, like the Hardrace brand. The rubber in those is about as stiff as urethane bushes, so will control slop a lot better than factory bushes, but last a long time. They shouldn't be defectable, but I'm sure that the cops and RTA/Regency people would not look kindly on them anyway and would demand an engineer's report.

As it stands, I have enough camber adjustment at the front with adjustable urethane bushes to give enough camber to cause my tyres to ever so slightly wear more on the inside (which is all I'm prepared to put up with on a street car that spends so much time driving in a straight line). I also have enough from the adjustable urethane bushes in the rear to wind out the excess camber from it being lowered - not that it is that low, it's 5mm above legal as of the official measurement at Regency last week! I get just a little extra wear on the inside at the rear again. It's good. If it was being set up for track, there'd not be enough camber and I'd have to go adjustable arms. But I've gotten well past the point of wanting a track car on the road. A well set up streeter is enough.

[mrsr32]

interesting as i've recently replaced my 2 piece poly castor bushes with single piece ones.

next time i'll try replacing them with complete arms.

i'm like you and have replaced all the rear bushes for poly and adj in camber and traction arms.

I was just interested in the fact that you said you run castor arms on a street car as I debated it before goign for the single piece castor bush.