lead_foot

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A guy at work has asked if I can lower his Saxo for him. Having never deal with rear torsion bars. Anybody got any advice on how to do it? I've heard it's a proper Pain In The Arse.

Any advice/help would be appreciated.

WongRS

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Get a fooking large hammer!
I did my 205, with supervision, if you have a good ramp or pit to work with it makes it alot easier, its not actually that bad to do, just make sure you measure the height of the stub pin with it jacked up before you remove them, otherwise that can get confusing.
Undo all the bolt, and then it literally is a case of brute force to get the arms off, mine did take a good few clacks with a big sledge hammer.

H7 CYA

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Jack hammers a good option can be stiff as fook if never been off before.

Toe Knee

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as said if its never been off and its old then the splines tend to rust themselves inplace and its a pig to remove!! mate did it for me with my help and we used a thick rod the same diameter as the hold for bar and a big fuck off sledge hammer to hit it with

darrenr1969

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And make sure you mark the original spline position so you know where each side sat ( as a reference) I marked the arm and bar with a centre punch.

CalibreDan

Done a couple, never had much luck hammering or slide hammering so 'pulled' the torsion bars out.

Bit of M8 (IIRC) stud or long bolt, couple of washers, large socket, nuts.

Put socket against the housing and over the torsion bar, wind a nut on the stud/bolt, put the bolt/stud through the washers then through the socket and wind it in to the end of the torsion bar.

Get it all the way in then tighten the nut up against the washers/socket and it should pull out.

http://www.badgermotorsport.co.uk/lowering.htm

http://www.talk-torque.com/website/?p=63

cossiejay

drop a skip on it will be lowered then

lead_foot

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Thanks for the help, sounds like a proper pain.

xrsi

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find that hard to believe to be honest mate!

even on a car 3 or 4 years old the road dirt gets in them and cakes them solid!

tried the pulling out method with gas aswell on a 4 year old 206 thats had been well looked after by previous owner and it wouldnt budge on the lower bar.

in the end had to make a big plate for a slide hammer with bearing puller on and a high tensile bolt through the plate and have a bar on the other end and as the slide hammer was shocking the one side a person hitting the bar with a big hammer to shock the other to free it!

you can take the ends off but if you can get the bards out then its better as it doesnt disturb the bearings.

JTECH James

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ive done quite a few and never had much agro with them tbh

furqall

look here fella

http://www.suzukituning.com/PSA/Suspension/Lowering.htm

jonboisescort

i refuse to touch anything with a torsion bar have seen my step bro struggle many times to get the bars out

he even had to give up on a saxo as it refused to come apart

only thing i can see trying is heating it up to burn some of the shit off


tbh u get easy ones and you get pain in the arse ones just hope your lucky