AnswerID: 127960 Submitted: Friday, Sep 02, 2005 at 16:52
Tuff60
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Dodger and GUPatrol.
This is exactly how Owner Experts piss off mechanics, wheel aligners and the like.
I've been under more GU patrols than the pair of you have had hot dinners. HL is dead RIGHT, there is NO (read NONE) adjustment on GU's except for a total toe bar that connects both front wheels.
The only exception is early GU I's that did not go back for the recall. The recall was to remove the adjustable bar which connects the pitman arm to the left hand steering knuckle, and replace it with a solid shaft. The same solid shaft fitted to GU's ever since.
Nissan's reason given was that over time the adjustment nuts became loose and then the bar could over time unwind and then disconnect causing loss of steering completely. So as there is only a total toe adjustment, any big enough adjustment will result in a crooked steering wheel. So as I said before HL is dead right.
Palmerson, please don't go in to the place to tell them they got it wrong, go in and ask the wheel aligner to show you where the adjustment was before nissan removed it, I am sure if he as been doing it long enough he will know.
I write this because there is not a mechanic or wheel aligner out there who is not tired of owner experts coming in telling them how to do their job on the say so of somebody’s brother, friend, neighbor, cousin, hairdresser, boyfriend, father or even
forum buddy on a website.
Do you like being told how to do YOUR job?????
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