I was driving along in my z31 at a sensible speed today approaching a red light in the rain, gently applied the brakes and the car really shot off to the right.

Get to where I'm going and have a look to find that my offside track control rod is snapped in 2, half of it on the road somewhere at that set of traffic lights I imagine.

 

Just started searching for a replacement rod and came across this thread which set alarm bells ringing as I recently installed poly bushes...anybody had any problems or heard that poly should not be used for this part of the car?

the forgotten link!! http://forums.hybridz.org/index.php/topic/65948-broke-a-tc-rod-now-what/

scary stuff

hate to state the obvious buddy but this is a 300zx z32 forum and does not cover z31 models

I do believe the z32 can suffer from poly bush on the fornt tention rod. It can put stress on the lower arm and tear the metal where it bolts to.

 

In some cases any way lol!!

I fitted poly bushes on the front tension rods and sway bar about 400 miles ago. All good so far. I will post a thread if anything changes!

hate to state the obvious buddy but this is a 300zx z32 forum and does not cover z31 models

 

Your not stating the obvious as some members on here also own z31s as well as having z32s mate, I know of a few z31 owners on here - Slick Pete, Jap.Slapper and Dazvert for instance.

Its also an issue worth sharing because if its a vulnerable part on the z31 then it may well be a weak point on other cars as well, the thread I posted a link to was mainly 280zx owners with the same problem - my post is titled 'possible issue with poly bushes???' not 'possible issue with z31'.

 

Cheers to the others for input, I'm just wondering whether I should replace the bushes with standard ones when I get a hold on a new rod :confused: Mike at MJP was actually just going to send me the standard ones at the time but I asked for poly ones instead, doh! Hopefully just a coincidence that it happened just a couple of months after fitting them.