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Post by Shiny » Wed Jan 27, 2016 9:07 pm

Decided to let my lad have this for his birthday today, plan is to then do up the NSX shell between us for a bit of dad son time.

We had a quick go this afternoon at a nearby car park and it goes well. He managed to drift even though it is on normal rubber tyres. I have bought some hard plastic drift tyres which could be fun.

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Anyway, 30 seconds after this the rear wheel fell off and the front suspension collapsed. Lol. Don't think the nuts had been done up very well. Found the wheel nut and the hub and fortunately we have a couple of spare little bars that go through the axle to turn the hub, so all is good there.

Got home and realised a screw and plastic nut type washer were missing from the front upper arm. It is a little barrel shaped spacer with a small hole at the top so it is held in place with the screw.

Does anyone know what this plastic bit is called so we can order another one? It's a HOP part as the suspension has been upgraded.

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Post by Sailor » Wed Jan 27, 2016 11:53 pm

Spacer, upper suspension?

What model is it? There are a lot of parts diagrams on the web.
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Post by Shiny » Thu Jan 28, 2016 9:41 am

Panic over, my lad with his eagle eyes found the missing bush and even the screw in the car park this morning!

I think i'll use some thread lock on it when putting it back together as the destructions say not to overtighten the screw, probably why it fell out in the first place.
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