Been making some more progress on the 240. While it was in the air I decided to refresh the front end. Come to find out after 40,000 miles most of the hiems up front were ready to tag out with a little bit of slop. Ordered a new mono ball for my LCAs and m14 2x14 rod ends for my tierods. Trouble came when I went to dismantle the front as my modded Ebays LCAs didn't wana come apart. For those unaware you can take Ebay LCAs, use quality joints, 3/4 bolts and machine work to make a killer LCA setup.
Anyways the the 3/4 bolt did not want to leave its home after 5 years. I managed to separate the knuckle but the bolt, shims and control arms were locked together to the point i couldn't press them apart. Too save my self alot of work i orded a set of GKtech front LCAs, new s13 BJs and grabbed a spare set of knuckles. The replacemnt knlucles have the steering arms welded a bit shorter so potentailly quicker steering and more angle, I'm curious how this will feel.
If you've never heard of this mod it looks kinda like this, and that 3/4 bolt is seized to the whole stack
Didn't take any pictues of this but i stabilized my e-brake bracket setup as the brackets used to bend but welding a cross piece between the 2 90s. Then adding a pair of legs to bolt holes that were used by the auto seat belts. Now the ebrakes lock up with out first flexing the brackets.
While I've waiting on the a lengthened drive shaft as the 350z diff is a good bit shorter then s13 VLSD. I got the rear eyeball aligned, made a 1/2" spacers for the sway bar to clear the diff flange, and lubed the polys bushes that are left in my suspension (just 3 in each knuckle) with some dielectric. re-lubing the bushes was easily done with just a Clamp, 27mm shallow, 1/4 drive socket and a hammer. As you can see after nearly 7 years and 65k miles these suckers were pretty dry. Btw dielectric grease is exactly what ES provides as lube and that little tube could of done 10 or 16 bushes.
