240sx Tension Rod Installation

Why would anyone want to replace there tension rods? I mean yea spending money on a car that’s over 20 years old sounds lame, but these days EVERYONE wants to be so JDM!

^^Joking

Replacing the factory worn out tension tods are a great way to tighten up your front steering/handling. Tension arms allow you to adjust your caster, meaning the placement of the wheel for handling,”Not Hella Flush” that would be camber. By upgrading your old out pieces of junk, you begin to feel everything, how your wheels begin to under steer, a better feel while braking. So now that I have your attention lets get this started, As I write this I am going of the hint you are either just getting into the JDM, Hella Flush, skid racing, side ways driving life. If this is incorrect, please take no offense, I am simply making you think.

Now the estimated time should be an hour or less, an hour if you aren’t familiar with a jack, jack stands, and wrenches. If you are, this shit should take you 20 minutes tops, faster and easier if you get your Dorifto buddies to give you a hand.

Things needed:

-Jack

-Jack Stand

-Socket set

-Wrench set

-Hammer

A coke or Beer if you are of age, and some good Music to listen too.

This is the culprit you will be removing:

Take a look, you see 1 bolt on the left, and difficult to see but 2 on the right. Cake right?

Once you get them out of there home, they should look like this:

Now the question that only YOU can answer! Why are you replacing these? If you are simply replacing them simply due to OCD, then I suggest replacing the bushings themselves. If you drive like 95% of nissan 240sx owners due, drifting, autocross, racing, and everything else, I suggest Adjustable Tension Rods, Bellow are a few links to aftermarket adjustable tension rods and bushings. For installing them, it’s removal just in reverse, Once your new parts are back on, I suggest getting an alignment for your front caster, bad caster can cause your S chassis to slightly drift left or right on the road.
1989-1997 Nissan 240sx s13 and s14 are all the same!