Re: Henry's 55 Constellation

Posted by Cli55er On 2008/11/6 21:54:19

apparently no one cares why i know that the manual is backwards on how to take the tension off the small torsion bars so you can take the torsion motor out of the frame....so i will just tell you.........there is no weight on the frame, so it is opposite. the shop manual was written for a car in the shop that has the body/engine etc...all on top of it. so instead of 1/2" towards the center of the car, it now becomes 1/2" off vertical towards the outside of the car. there now you know.

the cost for just about everything i will need for the frame is around 1500 bucks, i was expecting more like 2000 myself.

the tool i used to take the end caps off the transverse bars to get the ball stud out was a crow/pry bar wit a 90 degree end. i used the bench grinder to make the tool fit the way i needed it to. cost 8 bucks, saved a ton of time, headache, and pain ;0) well worth it if you ask me and it gave all the leverage i needed to pop those things loose.

you can see from the pics that i was finally able to get the torsion motor assemble out in one piece. now i can work on restoring it to go back into the frame eventually.

enjoy.

Later,

Hank

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