| Torsion bars [message #353929] |
Mon, 20 April 2020 06:06  |
Rich Kinas
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Registered: July 2019
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Hello fellow GMCers,
I completed rebuilding my front end but was so excited when I was putting it all back together and torquing, cotter pins, etc that I forgot to check to see the orientations of torsion bar pork chops  Well I greased up the lower A arm side of the torsion bars before installing at least (or so I thought). So I checked the manual and it says to unbolt the rear torsion bar support cross member and slide it backward. It's easy to unbolt, not so easy to slide it backward. It wont budge! I thought that if the pork chops were rusted onto the bar at least the bars would slide out of the A arms...But alas this is not the case. Now wondering what to do....I have a hand sledge that I was going to try tapping on the cross member right next to each bar and see what happens. I ahve been using pentrating oil for a week now, hoping that will help. The cross member is loose you can move it up and down, side to side but not backward.
Any words of wisdom?
Rich
Rich Kinas
1976 Elaganza II
Orlando, FL
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