Has anyone else seen this happen? It does not vibrate or anything, I just happened to have my car on the lift last night to replace a busted Y-pipe and noticed the FRESH oil on the cross member and exhaust pipe. It seems it had just ruptured.

According to Nissan it is not a replaceable mount, unless I get a complete rear cross member assembly.

5 years old, 73,000 miles and little things have just starting popping up.

 

The differential bushings are rubber, not oil filled. You sure your diff fluid didn't puke out of the breather tube? That does happen... otherwise you can replace the differential bushings - suggest you look at what www.splparts.com has to offer. Unless of course you're referring to a CV boot explosion (those are nasty)...

 

I wish I had taken a picture. It was coming directly out of the bushing. it trailed right out down the cross member and dripped onto the B-pipe of the exhaust.

 

just saw this on their site

Thanks for the link tho!!! I will have to pick one or all of those up.

 

I have also seen the stud hole in the cover crack and have oil running down the stud.

 

Wow, I will check that out. Thanks for the heads up.

2 Johns, 2 Lotuses? LOL.

 

I assume you speak of the round mount visible above the GT bace in the aluminum chassis work ABOVE the diff?



I have seen a few of these go out. You can buy just the piece but you must remove the entire assembly to replace it unfortunately. I would replace it due to the extra wear it causes on the drivetrain by not absorbing shock.

 

Those bushings are silicone filled and when they bust a very thick almost gel will leak out and everything sticks to it, making it hard to track where it comes from but best way to tell is poke your bushing with a extension or screw driver it should be firm and give very little if its in good shape if its in bad shape it will either ooze out more silicone or it will become very soft.

 

Silicone filled bushing in tension rods and rear subframe have been a common item on Infiniti since 1989.

The rear subframes usually need replacing ~~150k, however with modified suspensions and agresssive driving they obviously wearout faster.