Today I am supposed to be changing my tension rod bush's...

 

Drivers side one is out and I have replaced the bush but for the life of me I cannot get the bolt back through the cross memeber and bush.

 

The bolt is tapered so it only goes in one way (took me half an hour to realise :slap: ) but there is a pipe going from what looks like an air cooler to the air intake in the way. Whatever I try I cannot get it to move enough.

 

Is there an easy way to get this bolt in or have I now got to dismantle half of the car to get it in ?

 

Mark

IIRC you can easily remove the bracket it fits onto and then fit the tension rod to that, then fit the braket back

Here you go - http://www.ttzd.com/tech/tensionrodstech.html

ROFL, when my mate did mine we used some brute force and teased it back in ;)

 

Its an intercooler pipe i think.

Thanks for the replies, I used brute force in the end...

 

Still, I managed to replace both Bushs. :hyper:

 

Will take it out tomorrow to see if its any better.

Out of interest, what kind of bushes did you put in? Genuine Nissan bushes or poly bushes?

I got these from Zcentre

 

http://www.zcentre.co.uk/shop/product_info.php?cPath=21_28_58&products_id=164

 

Very easy to fit them as they are in 3 bits. A bit of a pig to remove the old ones but a cold chisel and hammer worked wonders.

Ok, I was looking at Z Centre also and saw these .......

 

http://www.zcentre.co.uk/shop/product_info.php?cPath=21_28_58&products_id=315

 

Apart from your bushes being the split bush type, I wonder if there's much difference between these items?

I saw those but don't have access to a proper press, so went for the 3 part ones.

I used a crow bar :rofl: