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I need to take out my stock slant 6 bars and replace with v 8 ones.
Whats the easiest way to get them out without the proper tool?
I do not care if I cannot use them again.
Thanks!
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Jim_Lusk
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Without the proper tool the easiest way would be to release the tension on them and take a sawz-all to them. Don't froget to loosen up the LCA pivot pins in the k-member for the new torsion bars.
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MoPar_or _NoCar
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Reinstalling, do you have the upper A arms on or off?
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Duster440
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Upper arms can be off. The lowers just need to be hanging loose and fancy-free.
You can also remove the bars by unbolting the LCA's and strut rods, remove rear TB clips, and pry LCA rearward.
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SRT440DUSTER
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Remove the tension and clamp on a couple pair of visegrips...then smake the visegrips with a hammer..I had both sides out in 10 minutes
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 , if you are not going to use them again. gt
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slant six bars work good in a drag car, id use the proper tool to avoid screwing them up. you might find a use for them one day
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MVRCorp
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Don't forget to take off the retainer clips. There has been post on here where guys have beat the hell out of them before asking the question.
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IF YOU CAN'T FIX IT WITH A HAMMER YOU HAVE AN ELECTRICAL PROBLEM.
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loiq
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I once took two pieces of wood and clamped a bench vise around them and beat them out. Worked good and didn't mar the torsion bars.
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You can make a simple and cheap torsion bar removal tool . Just get the appropriate size u bolts and a scrap piece of angle iron . drill holes in the angle iron the width of the u bolts.slip the u bolts around the torsion bar and throught the angle iron. snug the nuts up and wail on the angle iron . I also wrap the bolts and the suface of the a.iron that touches the T.bar. One so it does not mar the surface of the Bar and Two to give it some grip. My 35 year old T.bars came out in three good whacks !  |
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slant six bars work good in a drag car, id use the proper tool to avoid screwing them up. you might find a use for them one day
......you could sell those bars to someone. I made my bar removal tool (similar to the Mancini tool) for cheap. (less than three dollars from scrap material. Then I just whack away  |
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Womanator
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Cut the wood in half that the torsion bars come in from Mopar and put them around the bar and use a vise grip to hold them and hit them backwards.No damagewill happen.
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abqdart
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Heck if you can get them out without destroying them I would be interested in them
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