2WD Steering Setup Installed w/ Pictures, Using OEM Steering Damper.

[ebayfish]

You will also have to change out your pitman arm with a short taper design from a early 90s. I ordered my stuff from eBay & jegs.com

Edited January 21, 2015 by ebayfish

[bensmillie]

hi i have a 95 widebody d21 V6 petrol terrano and im interested in doing the 2wd centre steering link swap but i cant find the correct part numbers for the centre link and inner tie rod ends to fit my beast as no one in my area seems to have heard of it any help would be great thanks

[bensmillie]

eBayfish , those numbers don't seem to mean anything to the parts shops here in New Zealand they said the numbers should start with a TE . Either that or if I knew what year 2wd system I needed to fit in my 95 d21 model that would work aswell cheers

[Bubbley11]

Moog I believe is the make. Try to search for those items on rockauto. I don't know if they ship to you but you can find them there most likely.

[ebayfish]

I looked those items up on moog-suspension.com they may be different outside the states. Search using 1994 d21 hardbody 2wd.

[2WDTRAILRIDE]

Hey guys, I don't think I ever posted hear but I am Jimmy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8T0BkkwaEs damn thing is still going but rattles like pop cans in a trash can. It may be for sale as a parts truck. everything is solid as a rock except for the bod. Been jumped, been stuck, been rolled, frame fabed back together you name it. Put this drive train and suspension on a fresh truck and go another round in the rodeo!

 

But anyway I just want to know how the 2wd center bar holds up to bouncing sideways off a creak bank on the heavier 4x4? Anyone bend the bar? I have bent a few but never broke one. But hears a possibility, I never made the steering kit I was going too. So it's up to you and tell me how it works. The 1999-04 2WD frontier 4cl truck has a little larger bar and inner rod end with exact same steering geometry. Ball studs are a little larger by about 10% or so the center link is 26MM vrs 23MM on the Hardbody.

 

You may possibly need to swap to a 99 4x4 idler arm and pitman arm do to ball taper sizes. The biggest possible problem may be the spline count on the pitman arm / gear box vrs older models. Check and see if Exterra rod end tapers are the same as the 2wd Frontier 4cyl model. Again this is not the desert runner v6 model but the 4cl 2wd model. If so a hone may used or convert the pitman steer bar to a Uniball conversion BY WELDING A GUSSET TO THE PITMAN and a bung and rod end to the center bar. I WAS PLANNING A center link design very similar to the Toyota TC for the 2wd Hardbody, but don't think it will sell. I don't like there NISSAN steer bar setup though It's really the same thing causing short rod ends. I don't think they checked into the 2wd steering setup on the Nissan. They are not quite as good at the Nissan as they are the Toyota! The fact is they could have used the same design on the 2wd Hardbody as the 2wd race Toyota kit changing the arm design and using the same spindles. THE TRUCKS ARE ALMOST IDENTICAL UP FRONT!.

 

Back to the stock style steer setup

You should still use the 4x4 outer rod end with a custom DOM sleeve to connect the 2wd inner to the 4x4 outer. This should work better than the Cal steering kit especially if going to do a long travel kit. The tie rods are simply to short and pull the toe in at droop on all 4x4 NISSAN STEERING -04 this may even cause additional stress to CVs and other parts. So if anyone trying this let me know how the pitman arm works out. NISSAN PLAYS PART NUMBER CHANGE GAMES. sometimes it is and some times it's pure bull@!*%.

Edited January 24, 2015 by 2WDTRAILRIDE

[2WDTRAILRIDE]

remember this is for better geometry and steering not more strength because the ball studs are no stronger. So the cure is to build a custom 2wd style steer kit and it can work on both trucks.

[sparkybg]

Any luck trying this on R20 terrano? Do you know if the taper on R20 is the same on pittman arm and idler arm?

 

G'day,
I'm in Australia. I own an R20 Terrano II 2.7TDi (the Australian imported model 1997-1999).

I believe this is almost exactly the same front end (steering/susp) as the earlier WD21 Pathfinders.

Does anyone know if the R20 Terrano II parts will allow me to perform this modification?
I have a feeling that they will. I know that the stock steering arm on my R20 is the smaller 28 spline version which should fit the 2wd stud taper on the draglink. I also know that the idler arm is the same one used on the earlier WD21 pathfinders.

There seems to be differing opinions with part numbers for tie rod ends between the WD21 pathfinder/Terrano and my R20 Terrano II.
So I need to get a definite answer on those. Other than that I 'think' the conversion will work as everything else is/seems the same (including drag link control arms, uprights, shocks, torsion bars, brakes etc etc).

 

I am currently running a full right hand drive Calmini heavy duty steering set-up for a D22 Pathfinder thatI imported from the U.S.
What a big job!!! This required fitting a 1993 Pathfinder steering box and a lot of dicking around...

 

It has never worked 100% due to incorrect ackermann geometry problems etc (it toes-in on tight turns, not toe-out as it is meant to). So I am considering changing back to the 2WD conversion and selling the Calmini system to someone with a D22.

Thankyou for ANY help you can share with the conversion and the wheel aligment numbers you used. I am an engineer and have built rally/race cars in my youth, so feel free to use technical terms etc...

 

FYI - This is a standard R20 Terrano II 2.7TDi

 

Regards,

Andrew.