downhuman Posted December 5, 2013 Posted December 5, 2013 Evening chaps, Recently the zed was serviced and part of the work done was to source some irritating noises - one was front drop links, the other was the milltek banging slightly on the rear 'brace' thing. OF course, thinking all the noises had been sorted, a new one developed today and it is hard to explain. When driving there is a clicky groany noise when turning corners - I've managed to replicate it every time by pulling the steering wheel right when it was straight - and sounds like old floorboards creaking. Any ideas? Banana arm bush? Cheers R Quote
cs2000 Posted December 6, 2013 Posted December 6, 2013 Correctamundo. I had the same thing and my banana arm on the drivers side had totally separated from the bush despite me hearing the noise over on the passenger side. I drive for about 8 months with the noise though Just bought the bush kit from Alex, I assume Clark Motorsport so the same kit, was around £80 for one bush for each side, two cone shaped things and two nuts iirc Quote
downhuman Posted December 6, 2013 Author Posted December 6, 2013 Cheers buddy, very odd noise but when the bush was last looked a was ok so wanted to check. Cheers mate Quote
Ewen@Clark Motorsport Posted December 6, 2013 Posted December 6, 2013 Could well be the bush, worn checking ball joints as well. The bushes are now at a new lower price of £29.99. Let me know if I can help Quote
downhuman Posted December 6, 2013 Author Posted December 6, 2013 You can kind of 'feel' the creak through the steering wheel too - was worrying about power steering stuff but most of the googling suggests bushing - has brand new front drop links on it Quote
cs2000 Posted December 6, 2013 Posted December 6, 2013 Sounds exactly like mine mate as I said, I could feel it too. Changed all 4 droplinks and everything but it was an audible creak from the wheel area, that where yours is coming from? Quote
cs2000 Posted December 7, 2013 Posted December 7, 2013 omg its perfect ? ? indeed Yeah definitely sounds like the banana arm bushing Il take clark motorsport up on that fantastic price and get the two bushes, cone thingy and the nut, take it to a nice garage and get them both swapped over. Only took Kaizer about an hour to do them both when I had mine swapped. Quote
downhuman Posted December 7, 2013 Author Posted December 7, 2013 Is the poly bush worthwhile? Sent from my GT-I9505 using Tapatalk Quote
Ewen@Clark Motorsport Posted December 7, 2013 Posted December 7, 2013 I can supply the Superpro ones but they are a lot more expensive than the OEM option. Quote
BulletMagnet Posted December 7, 2013 Posted December 7, 2013 Yeah definitely sounds like the banana arm bushing Il take clark motorsport up on that fantastic price and get the two bushes, cone thingy and the nut, take it to a nice garage and get them both swapped over. Only took Kaizer about an hour to do them both when I had mine swapped. Chris, your prolly talking about the banana arm ball joint, because the bush does not require a seating cone and nut. Swapped my banana arm out recently so there. And why you driving to Kent again, banana bush was swapped at locally at Autofit, took less than an hour. Quote
cs2000 Posted December 9, 2013 Posted December 9, 2013 Naa was definitely the bush, big chunk of rubber with a metal band around the edge. I believe the nut and cone were to replace the ones fitted to the car as Alex always used to recommend replacing them if you remove the arm. Fancied a drive Did try to book locally but couldn't find anywhere that would do it. Quote
auzyfozy Posted December 9, 2013 Posted December 9, 2013 I think i have the same problem with my car. Nissan want 3 weeks wages for both arms so I've looked on ebay about found a pair - 2811223660873 Is this what I need? Quote
Ewen@Clark Motorsport Posted December 9, 2013 Posted December 9, 2013 I think i have the same problem with my car. Nissan want 3 weeks wages for both arms so I've looked on ebay about found a pair - 2811223660873 Is this what I need? Yes that's the compression arm or banana arm as its also known. They are not genuine Nissan parts though, we can supply the genuine arm at £249 per side Quote
downhuman Posted December 14, 2013 Author Posted December 14, 2013 On a ramp, and the arm has dropped thanks to bush failure.... PM coming your way Alex... Quote
cs2000 Posted December 16, 2013 Posted December 16, 2013 Exactly the same as mine, arm was clanging around and needed a bit of reshaping due to wear on the edges of the hole where the bush sits. Glad you found it quickly, luckily the bush isn't that expensive and labour doesn't take that long either Quote
downhuman Posted December 17, 2013 Author Posted December 17, 2013 Yeah booked in Friday and my mechanic reckons 30 mins a side roughly so fingers crossed Sent from my GT-I9505 using Tapatalk Quote
Deklan Posted December 23, 2013 Posted December 23, 2013 my banana arm also created the same noise when it failed is a common fault also defo worth checking. Mine had completely separated however it has been said the noise can also occur and the bush looks fine but has failed. Quote
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