Torsion bar

Site Subscriber Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 3547

Ive just lowered the front of my ph1 19 16v,and think it looks too high at the back now, it looks too un-even, is it easy to lower it?
what do i need to do?
cheers

FCS Event Manager Joined: 04 Jan 2005 Posts: 3680

Zed from RSC has done a wicked guide on the torsion bar

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/brian.morris5/Torsion%20Bar%20Guide/guide.htm

plus there have been quite a few topics on the torsion bar on RR, hit the search button, type in torsion and loads of them spesh Neals fun he had with doing the torsion bar on his hatch . . .

my ph2 is lowered at the front to and i need to do my rear torsion bar as well, not really looking forward to doing it to be honest after reading all about neals fun with his hatch BUT when he did the torsion bar on his chammy, it went very smoothly.

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AARRGGHHH dont mention the torsion bar on the hatch!! Evil or Very Mad

chammy was dead easy. just depends on whether or not youre lucky. If its nice and clean under those caps, youre on. If its rusty and manky, you cna probably forget it.

Site Subscriber Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 3547

argh u boys would piss on my fire!! my right side torsion bar end has so much rust it is un recognisable, and the left is rusty aswell, but i really want it lowered, i dont want it to look like im constantly braking! how did you free of yours neal?

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Wicked Neo wrote:

Zed from RSC has done a wicked guide on the torsion bar

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/brian.morris5/Torsion%20Bar%20Guide/guide.htm

That guide is good, i've always put off doing the torsion bar in the past as i thought it would be a bigger pain in the arse than it's worth. Will try it when i get another 16v. I guess like you say, it depends on the state of the current bar and surroundings.

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danlp6 wrote:

argh u boys would piss on my fire!! my right side torsion bar end has so much rust it is un recognisable, and the left is rusty aswell, but i really want it lowered, i dont want it to look like im constantly braking! how did you free of yours neal?

I didnt. It might as well have been welded in. In the end i swapped the entire rear beam off my donor 19, which was already lowered.

Chammy was clean under both caps and both bars slid out when i glanced at them. Job was done within an hour.

You can only try matey. Take the caps off and douse under them with WD40 every day for a week before you want to do the lowering. Just take the skirts off, undo the bottom shock bolts and try to pull out the bars. After you have sheared off 10-20 bolts, made up a makeshift slide hammer and used that, and tried smacking the stuck bar out from the other side with a length of metal rod and a BIG hammer, take my advice and give up... Crying or Very sad

Site Subscriber Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 3547

if i cant get it off like that, i'll use the oxi acethylene at work and get the bar steward one way or another, i'll get the fecker glowing cherry red and then try to get it out

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fair enough, but theres a rubber bush/bearing in there, be warned.

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argh!!!

i want mine lowered!!! whats the rubber seal doing anyway?

Level 10 User Joined: 18 Jun 2004 Posts: 614

Put a dead body in the boot. JOB DONE !!!

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or a HUGE bass box lol

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i will need a few, ive got an engine and g/box in the boot atm and thats the height i want it

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ive got a kicker comp 15" sub with a huge box on it

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ned

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no
i dint have it up loud either, it just add alot to the sound, ive amp'd the 6x9's, but it didnt sound nice, it sounds alot better with a bit more bass on it, not a shit load, the amp on it, is turned down on the bass, i just like a nice descent sound to my music

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ned.

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and i dont like all this dance and trance, dnb stuff, im into stuff like punk rock etc system of a down? im sure ned's dont like that!

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ned i say, ned!

Site Subscriber Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 3547

ok...
u describe a ned, and i can garntee it int like me

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the sort of person who is youngish, drives a black phase 1 hatchback, works on triumphs and lives in somerset.

Site Subscriber Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 3547

ouch, neal, ouch Sad