| Struggling with torsion bar loading. [message #334151] |
Thu, 28 June 2018 22:54  |
Bill Van Vlack
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Registered: September 2015
Location: Guemes Island, Washington
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I've recently finished a front end rebuild and at the tension bar loading step. I'm using a borrowed tool that looks like the Kent Moore one, and have to use a cheater bar and some force to raise the pork chop. The U-bolt arms and center bolt get out of alignment the more it raises the pork chop. I think the U-bolt arms are cocking in the crossmember holes as the PC socket and center bolt head make their arc up and outboard.
I was able to get the drivers' side up using a different tool (a simple U-bolt rather than the KM with the sloped shoulders). After I finished I noticed that the bolt had bent!
For the passenger side I am using the KM-type tool, but stopped as the center bolt gets harder to turn.
I think it would work better if the crossbar rested against the crossmember, but you have to raise the PC over halfway just to get it to clear. I think if I could somehow start the tool with the PC partway up, I'd be in more of the vertical part of the arc and avoid a lot of the misalignment, but the bolt just seems too hard to turn. In the meantime, I've removed the shock and let the LCA lower as far as it can. Would that make that much of a difference in loading?
Thoughts?
Bill Van Vlack
'76 Royale; Guemes Island, Washington; Twin bed, full (DS) side bath, Brazilian Redwood counter and settee tops,455, 6KW generator; new owner a/o mid November 2015.
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