NISSAN/INFINITI 544663UB0A BUSHING
Product Specifications
| NISSAN/INFINITI | 544663UB0A |
| NISSAN/INFINITI | 54466JD000 |
The BUSHING is an automotive rubber-bonded or plain elastomeric bushing — a cylindrical or flanged sleeve assembly pressed into a bore in a suspension arm, subframe bracket, engine mount carrier, or body attachment point that provides a controlled elastic connection between two metal components, simultaneously allowing the designed rotational or translational movement between them, absorbing road-induced vibration before it can transmit as structure-borne noise into the vehicle body, and isolating the chassis from the impact loads generated at the tyre contact patch. The bushing consists of an inner metal sleeve that carries the pivot bolt or pin, an outer metal sleeve that is pressed into the housing bore to provide the interference fit that retains the assembly, and a vulcanised rubber element bonded between the two sleeves whose compound stiffness in each spatial direction — axial, radial, and torsional — is precisely engineered to produce the correct kinematic and dynamic behaviour for the specific attachment point. Suspension bushings carry substantial loads — a front lower control arm front bush experiences peak radial loads of several kilonewtons during combined braking and cornering — while simultaneously providing the compliance in the longitudinal direction that gives the suspension its characteristic bump compliance behaviour, absorbing small road impacts that would otherwise be transmitted directly to the vehicle body as harshness. The directional stiffness anisotropy of the bush rubber is achieved through voids, slots, or varying section thickness in the rubber element that make it soft in the desired compliance direction and stiff in the load-bearing directions, a balance that defines much of the vehicle's ride and handling character.
This unit — NISSAN/INFINITI 544663UB0A — is manufactured to OEM-equivalent specifications: outer sleeve outer diameter and length for the housing bore interference fit, inner sleeve bore diameter and length for the pivot bolt engagement, rubber compound Shore hardness and directional stiffness values in radial, axial, and torsional axes, void geometry and position in the rubber element for the designed compliance anisotropy, and bond strength between the rubber and metal sleeves for the rated load capacity are matched to the original part. Supplied as a complete bushing assembly ready for press installation. Available wholesale from 2.84 USD, MOQ 100 pcs, production lead time 20-40 days.
Automotive bushings fail through rubber compound fatigue and hardening from accumulated load cycles and thermal ageing — the rubber progressively stiffens, losing its vibration isolation function and transmitting increasing road noise to the body; through rubber-to-metal bond failure from chemical attack by oil contamination or ozone exposure that separates the rubber from the sleeve, allowing the rubber to shift angularly within the sleeve and introducing play that the bush was designed to prevent; and through rubber tearing from overload events — a single high-impact kerb strike can tear the rubber element beyond its elastic recovery limit, producing immediate play and noise. A bushing that has lost its rubber-to-metal bond shifts the component it locates out of its designed geometric position, altering wheel alignment in a way that cannot be corrected by alignment adjustment alone.
- Use a hydraulic press with correctly sized driver cups matched to the outer sleeve diameter to remove and install the bushing — the outer sleeve requires uniform axial force applied across its full end face circumference; a driver cup smaller than the outer sleeve diameter contacts only the rubber element and tears it rather than pressing the sleeve; a driver cup larger than the housing bore contacts the housing edge and deforms it; confirm the driver cup diameter precisely matches the outer sleeve outer diameter before applying any press force.
- Inspect the housing bore for corrosion, scoring, and out-of-round condition before pressing the new bushing — a housing bore enlarged by a spinning outer sleeve or corroded beyond its tolerance will not provide the interference fit required; measure the bore diameter at two perpendicular orientations; a bore more than 0.1 mm oversize requires the housing to be replaced or bored for an oversize bushing; pressing a new bushing into an oversize bore allows it to spin under load within a short service period.
- Apply a light film of rubber lubricant or soapy water to the outer sleeve before pressing — the lubricant reduces the press-in force and prevents the outer sleeve from galling against the housing bore during installation; use only rubber-compatible lubricant — never petroleum-based oil or grease that will swell the rubber element; the lubricant evaporates or is squeezed out during the press cycle and does not affect the interference fit once the bushing is fully seated.
- Confirm the bushing is fully seated by checking the outer sleeve end face position relative to the housing face — a bushing pressed to depth is flush with or fractionally below the housing face; a bushing that is proud of the housing face has not reached its designed seating depth and has reduced interference contact area; check the depth by measuring from the housing face to the sleeve end face at multiple points around the circumference to confirm uniform seating.
- Tighten the pivot bolt with the vehicle at normal laden ride height — not at full droop or full bump — the rubber element must be in its torsionally neutral position when the pivot bolt is tightened to its final torque; tightening with the suspension at full droop or full bump pre-winds the rubber by the amount of torsional deflection between that position and normal ride height; this pre-stress significantly shortens the bushing's fatigue life; lower the vehicle to its laden position and bounce all corners before applying final torque.
- Install the new BUSHING (NISSAN/INFINITI 544663UB0A), lower the vehicle to laden ride height, torque all pivot fasteners to OEM specification, perform a four-wheel alignment to confirm the geometry is restored, road test confirming no knock or pull, and recheck alignment after 1,000 km as new bushings settle slightly under initial load cycling before returning the vehicle to service.
| Part | Reason for Combined Replacement |
|---|---|
| Control Arm or Suspension Link Complete arm with pre-pressed bushes — OEM ref. varies | When the bushing has failed from rubber-to-metal bond delamination and the outer sleeve has been spinning in the housing bore, the bore is likely enlarged beyond the tolerance for a new bush — the spinning sleeve abrades the bore diameter. A complete replacement arm provides an undamaged housing bore with the new bushing correctly pressed at the factory, eliminating the bore measurement and remediation step. On high-mileage arms where both bushes have deteriorated, a complete arm replacement is significantly more efficient than two separate bush replacement operations. |
| Pivot Bolt and Nut Single-use stretch bolt — OEM specification | The pivot bolt through the bushing inner sleeve is a single-use stretch bolt on many modern suspension designs — it deforms plastically during tightening to achieve its specified clamp load; retorquing a used stretch bolt to the same torque produces a different clamp load from the permanent set the bolt has taken. Always confirm from the OEM parts data whether the pivot bolt is single-use before beginning disassembly; include new pivot bolts in the parts order to avoid a second disassembly after discovering the bolt cannot be reused. |
| Stabiliser Bar Bush Clamp bush set — OEM ref. varies by axle | The anti-roll bar's chassis mounting bushes are typically of the same rubber compound and accumulate the same mileage and thermal cycling as the suspension arm bushes on the same axle. If the arm bushes are being replaced from age-related rubber hardening, the stabiliser bar bushes on the same axle are at the same material stage and will produce the same knocking symptoms within a short interval of the arm bush replacement. Replacing both simultaneously eliminates a repeat underbody access for a stabiliser bush knock complaint within a short mileage. |