Re: torsion suspension tool
Posted by Predictor On 2009/9/28 16:39:37
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For example, the Removing Tool, however simple it may appear to be, is designed to prevent damaging the torsion bar when driving it out of the broach in the front load arm. Nick the bar and you'll be giving it a place to break (like cutting sheets of glass or lexan).
That is SO true. Chrysler made a point about this very thing. I have all(?) the Mopar torsion bar tools and the critical ones are designed to prevent gouging.
I remember being in a Cadillac dealer in the early 70's (the Potamkin dealer on 11th Ave and 55th? st which I believe was once the Packard dealership building) and while in the parts dept one of the mechanics came in with a broken torsion bar. I asked him what that was for as I was only familiar with Mopar and Packard using torsion bars...he replied it was for an Eldorado and it was the second one he was replacing on the same car.
I asked him why twice, he told me the first one broke from the terrible streets and the second from one of the brain sturgeon mechanics having placed a pair of Vice Grip pliers on it and scoring it up sumpthin fierce!
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