Re: GTV6 torsion bars

["Leslie J. Singh" <Les.Singh@domain.elided>]

Joe Elliot wrote:

>That's nothing!  The torsion bars on my GTV6 wouldn't budge,
>regardless of how or where I banged on them.

I had the same problem when trying to remove Milano/Alfa 75 torsion bars. 
These don't have a removable carrier so because the idea of turning the car 
up on its nose under a press didn't appeal to me, I decided to have a 
coffee and think about it,  And the solution ... use vibrations to break 
the corrosion bond between the torsion bar and its housing and start it 
moving. So out came my favourite (note spelling... :-)  .. tool  .. a ball 
peen hammer and a few bangs near the front end of the bar (just behind the 
splines) directed sideways made the bar ring like a bell. Its important to 
wait after each blow till the vibrations die down. Then it was just a 
matter of using a  bronze drift on the back end, some taps with the hammer 
and the bar was out.

I had spent over an hour on that first bar and hadn't touched the second. 
Using this technique, the second one was out in minutes.

(Also - please email me directly if anyone needs to get in touch  .... too 
busy preparing for track testing of our Formula car)

Les in Wellington, New Zealand
... reading just the occasional digest and putting together
     a FF1600 engine 

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