Parts for your 1999 Nissan Pulsar-Centre bearing

1999 Nissan Pulsar centre-bearing — is it a thing?

Short answer: a centre-bearing isn’t used on the 1999 Nissan Pulsar (N15) sold in Australia and New Zealand. Technical references back this up: the Nissan factory service manual for the N15 (Driveline/Front Axle sections) and the Nissan FAST parts catalogue show no propeller shaft or centre support bearing for these models. Gregory’s/Haynes-style workshop guides for the 1995–2000 Pulsar family also describe a front-wheel-drive transaxle with two CV half‑shafts and no tailshaft. A centre-bearing is a part you find on vehicles with a long, two‑piece propeller shaft (typical of rear‑wheel drive and many AWD utes and wagons), not on a compact FWD hatch like the Pulsar.

Why it’s not used comes down to layout. The Pulsar’s engine and gearbox form a transaxle up front, sending drive straight to the left and right front wheels via CV shafts. There’s no long tailshaft running down the car to support, so there’s no need for a centre-bearing. That job simply doesn’t exist on this platform.

Worth noting for SR20-powered N15 variants: some have a right‑hand intermediate shaft with a support (carrier) bearing mounted to the engine block. That bearing isn’t a tailshaft centre-bearing