Can the torsion bar go in wrong?

[67RTblue]

Wow I honestly had no idea of the risk of adjusting with weight on. Did my dad’s car a couple times.
30yr auto body guy. NOTED!

 

[chrger1967]

Why do you need to pull the t-bar ??? Just let the LCA drop down and the nut will come out. From the looks of all the crud it may need a tap with a hammer but that should do it. No need to pull the t-bar.


And the ONLY way a t-bar can go in wrong is if its on the wrong side. Front to back doersn't matter. They are stamped L and R on the ends.

Wow I honestly had no idea of the risk of adjusting with weight on. Did my dad’s car a couple times.
30yr auto body guy. NOTED!

I’ve been seeing some guys adjusting the torsion bars with jack stands under the lower control arms. Isn’t that’s the same as having the weight on them?

 

[OneWheelPeel]

The scar has healed but first thing in the morning I can only close it about half way. I was told it could take up to a year to get back to normal.

Not nearly as gnarly as what happened to you but a long time ago a defective cutoff wheel went thru the skin on my knuckle to the bone. I didn’t have insurance so I butterfly’d it closed myself. For the longest time, like a year or so, it was stiff, especially in the morning. There is still a tiny scar but it took forever to feel normal, don’t want to think about my hand opening up like yours.

 

[chrger1967]

Wow I honestly had no idea of the risk of adjusting with weight on. Did my dad’s car a couple times.
30yr auto body guy. NOTED!

I've been seeing videos and some guys do the adjustment with the car on jackstands under the frame and some guys do it with jackstands under the lower control arms. And each will tell you not to do it the other way.

I finished putting together and was adjusting the ride height so I could torque the lower control arms and the strut rods. As I was turning the adjuster screw there was a big bang and my socket and rachet went flying. I pulled out the adjusting screw and the threads from the adjuster itself were on the bolt. What could I have done wrong? The adjuster nut is tight and won’t move.

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Update. Looks like I didn’t do it wrong. Look at this smarter block. There’s no threads left. I put in the QA1 bolts and blocks on and brought the car up to 25”. No hits, no bangs no errors

 

[RemCharger]

I've been seeing videos and some guys do the adjustment with the car on jackstands under the frame and some guys do it with jackstands under the lower control arms. And each will tell you not to do it the other way.



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Do it any way you'd like, just don't do it with the control arms on the jackstands!!

( if you do it on control arms, could get ugly real fast. Put stands on frame rails)

 

[Mopars & Missiles]

I bought a set from QA1. $134 for the pair

For future reference......$49

MRE - Torsion Bar Adjuster

 

[padam]

When you think about it, it’s understandable that the threads might fail on these blocks. There’s a lot of stress on a very small amount of metal.