hey guys i have a 1000 ute and it handles like a boat. is there anything i can do to help this?

Love to know myself as mine could also be better!
You could shim the upper control arms for some camber.
Be interested if anyone has ever reset or "retuned" the transverse leaf spring, and how much difference that would make.
Mines a bit worse still scince I wound the radius rods right out to eliminate the scrubbing :/

New bushes should see it handling like a gokart
Mine do

Changing the spring will only play around with your height ... making it stiffer will make the handling worse... they are bumpy enough as it is
Though I do have gas shocks in mine which have stiffer setup than the oily's

Dial some neg camber into it and get the radial rods screwed right in (after clearancing for tyres) and it should track alot better

which bushes are you talking about, i don't think they make some bushes any more :(

Did I just see datsun 1000's and new bushes in the same topic?..

I bought all new ones from Nissan a couple of years ago

However some people here have replaced them with Urethane
But aren't forthcoming with the part numbers

Repco will match them for you if there is a suitable nolothane part to match.

maybe you could just buy a 1200 and go coil overs :) jokes ,i like thous but they might be a little small and its too hard to pu a CA in and there is a guy in perth that does mounted rubber and can make bushes and you can choose the complound of the rubber ,maybe look into getting bushes made ?

Thats funny cos when I called nolathane up they didn't give a #OOPS#, said they wouldn't match up any bushes for me. I think it may be those stinkers red ranger with their monopoly. Will definately give repco a try cheers

i've posted the numbers b4..
the rears are same as 1200,
radius rods, are same too, I think, but 1600 might be same..