visualKei
10-11-2006, 09:27 PM
Hi guys, I'm new to the forum and ran a search on it, but didn't find much in results. Okay, so about a year ago I swapped in the differential from the '94 Infinity J30. Limited-slip works great and all, but a few months after hearing a lot of differential mount thuds, the noise became solid. Metal to metal. I looked down there, and the bolts I used came out. So I went to Infinity, got the two bolts that mount there:
Theres 2 of them, about 4 inches long, and they're positioned upwards. They hold the front end of the differential from vertical play. After about 2 months, I heard what sounded like a grinding noise. Basically it felt like something was dragging. Luckily this happened when I started up the car one morning, and not while I was out on the road.
After jacking up the car a few days ago, I took a look, and the bushings that the bolts go through, are completely gone. The differential just dropped through those two holes, and it's being held up by the 4 bolts that go into the rear of the differential-horizontally. Now I need to get some solid bushings. From what I hear you can get urethane, or you can get aluminum. I'm looking for a lifetime solution, cause it's a track car afterall, and the noise wont bother me when I shift. As far as I know SPL sells some aluminum ones, but I want to verify if those come with bushings to fit those two vertical holes.
Here's the link: http://www.splparts.com/Parts/NissanShared/Suspension/Subframe/default.asp
and I believe it's the bottom-most product.
Any takes on this? I need to have the car ready to drive soon, my daily driver is going to be in the shop.
*Gets ready to be pulled over by a cop in the loud-ass 240SX*
Theres 2 of them, about 4 inches long, and they're positioned upwards. They hold the front end of the differential from vertical play. After about 2 months, I heard what sounded like a grinding noise. Basically it felt like something was dragging. Luckily this happened when I started up the car one morning, and not while I was out on the road.
After jacking up the car a few days ago, I took a look, and the bushings that the bolts go through, are completely gone. The differential just dropped through those two holes, and it's being held up by the 4 bolts that go into the rear of the differential-horizontally. Now I need to get some solid bushings. From what I hear you can get urethane, or you can get aluminum. I'm looking for a lifetime solution, cause it's a track car afterall, and the noise wont bother me when I shift. As far as I know SPL sells some aluminum ones, but I want to verify if those come with bushings to fit those two vertical holes.
Here's the link: http://www.splparts.com/Parts/NissanShared/Suspension/Subframe/default.asp
and I believe it's the bottom-most product.
Any takes on this? I need to have the car ready to drive soon, my daily driver is going to be in the shop.
*Gets ready to be pulled over by a cop in the loud-ass 240SX*