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240mph
07-23-2005, 03:30 PM
Ok 97 s14, I had a curb damage replaced tension rod,LCA,and inner tie rod.
I had my friend re-align it at nissan he said my caster is out of spec.He also said
I might have a bent spindle.I also looked at the tension rod and LCA brackets but they look good to me.

One more thing, I noticed the my driver side(Accident side) looks a bit higher
than the passenger. What might be the problem?Any help will be fine thanks

Al_S14
07-23-2005, 04:32 PM
Ok 97 s14, I had a curb damage replaced tension rod,LCA,and inner tie rod.
I had my friend re-align it at nissan he said my caster is out of spec.He also said
I might have a bent spindle.I also looked at the tension rod and LCA brackets but they look good to me.

One more thing, I noticed the my driver side(Accident side) looks a bit higher
than the passenger. What might be the problem?Any help will be fine thanks

if impact was bad enough to cause this much damage and i were in your position i'd replace the wheel bearing at minimum, spindle if i had some extra money. guarantee it will take a dump and start making noise quite soon.
as far as caster being out of spec get Kamaza or any of those tension rods which will let you get caster back within spec. bents spindle is proably reason for caster being out of spec. you may also have a bent strut....but again i dont know how bad accident was.

it woudl help a lot more if you had a pritout of alignment specs.

240mph
07-23-2005, 04:36 PM
But see get adj. tension rods just cover the problem not solve
it. I want to make it straight first then maybe get some adj. suspension
components.As soon as the wheel bearing makes noise i'll change it but as for now
its ok.

The weird thing is the uneven ride height . My car is stock. I can't figure out whats causing
it.

Al_S14
07-23-2005, 04:42 PM
what are camber readings?

240mph
07-25-2005, 01:19 AM
ok my for my front: caster: Left 5.9 Right 7.0
camber: Left -1.2 Right -1.7
toe: Left 0.05 Right 0.05

Now for my rear: Camber: Left -.0.9 Right -1.6
Toe: Left 0.05 Right 0.05
Thrust angle 0

240mph
07-28-2005, 07:55 PM
Anyone know here.

m0rex
07-28-2005, 08:06 PM
Check for a bent strut thats what happen to my s14. Check the tension rod brackets i dont know if they should affect caster a lot but when i curbed my s14 the impact was so hard that it broke them off so now i have a nismo power brace :).

240mph
07-28-2005, 08:29 PM
I'm leaning more towards bent spindle.
The wreck didn't touch the t/c rod bracket
It didn't even touch the rod.Only the LCA and inner tie rod
Only reason why I changed the t/c rods because the were
worn out already.

projectRDM
07-28-2005, 10:19 PM
Spindles don't bend, they break. They're a much harder and denser steel than anything else on the front end. An impact hard enough to push the spindle back would bend the strut rod first and break the top of the shaft off completely before ever damaging the spindle.

m0rex
07-28-2005, 10:39 PM
Exaclty what i was gonna say. I never even heard of a spindle breaking.

SochBAT
07-29-2005, 03:00 AM
strut bent. any body damage? maybe a bent or tweaked shock tower?