Originally Posted by PaulZ370

I misaligned my steering also as I had to disconnect the linkage to get to the Demon Bolt. A trip to Nissan the next day and it was fixed very easily. There is a blue plastic ring at the bottom of the linkage with a blue "nubbie" that points out. On the linkage itself, the split in the clamp (where the bolt is ) has to line up with the blue nubbie on the plastic ring. This prety much lines up your steering wheel. I know it's hard to visualize this without pictures, but if you have been struggling with it for a week or more then you know what I am talking about. If still in doubt, take it to Nissan, but DO NOT LET THEM RE-ALIGN THE CAR IN ORDER TO SET YOUR STEERING STRAIGHT! The linkage has to be reset, otherwise the cable to the Air Bag that wraps around the steering can be damaged as it can be overstretched when at max turn, and your air bag may not deploy. If you get a tech worth his salt, then he'll know what I am talking about. I spent about an hour and a half chatting with the tech, the actual work took 15 minutes and that includes putting her up on the rack, resetting the linkage properly, taking her off the rack, driving in the parking lot to test the steering, then back on the rack to tighten things up.

We both made the same mistake: we took the wrong bolt out when disconnecting the linkage. The larger bolt higher up on the linkage is where we should have disconnected it. There is a key way there that will Not Allow you to misalign things...

Hope this helps!