re: GTV6 torsion bars

[Joe Elliott <jee@domain.elided>]

That's nothing!  The torsion bars on my GTV6 wouldn't budge, 
regardless of how or where I banged on them.  Fortunately, my car is 
an early one, so the member that carries the torsion bars is 
removable.  I removed it, and after I'd used up two cans of propane 
and broken two gear pullers, a bench vise, and all the surplus pipe 
my family had in the house, I had one bar broken loose.  That's when 
I gave in and took the cross member and the remaining torsion bar to 
the machine shop where they pressed it out with their hydraulic press 
in a matter of effortless seconds.  And they didn't even charge me.

At 8:51 AM -0500 3/10/02, alfa-digest wrote:
>Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 23:45:03
>From: "Allen Mitchell" <allenom@domain.elided>
>Subject: GTV6 torsion bars
>
>Hello,
>Has anyone else encountered, shall we say, "resistance" when extracting the
>torsion bars from a GTV6/Milano?  Yes, the suspension was completely
>unloaded, in fact the lower A arm was removed completely.  The rear splines
>on both torsion bars had rusted up so solidly that we had to "gently coax"
>the bar rearward by "tapping lightly" on the front end.  I made my own
>"factory tool" but it simply would not budge.  I cannot imagine that the
>real factory tool would have been able to break these things loose, as it
>took considerable "coaxing" to get it out.  Anyone else care to either:
>a)tell me what a clod I am, or b) recount their own tale of torsion-bar woe?
>Thanks,
>Al

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