Estwing make the best hammers if your looking for a replacement & want quality
Cheers I probably will, afterall it was my dads I think owe him a whole new toolbox
#32: Re: Torsion bar.. Author: Ape, Location: Clipping the Apex!Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 1:37 pm ---- No-one's mentioned heating it up yet. May be worth getting a small torch from B&Q and letting a little fire loose on the casting to free it up in the past. It's worked for me in the past
#33: Re: Torsion bar.. Author: Harry, Location: StaffordPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 1:44 pm ---- I use to have a small one but even though it looked the business it couldn't heat up my other 206's hub hot enough, have a friend with welding equipment I could try and give it a shot there. Just worried about damaging the brake lines etc
#34: Re: Torsion bar.. Author: NorthantsBen, Location: Raunds, NorthamptonshirePosted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 1:49 pm ---- I put a b&q mini blow torch thing on them sometimes, heating up while hitting, sometimes hold it on fOr ages, most of the time it goes,
Worse one I ever had was a 180 one funny enoth lol
#35: Re: Torsion bar.. Author: Harry, Location: StaffordPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 2:09 pm ---- I could do that myself, just to clarify the bars can be hit out either way? that way I could loosen it up first and hit the opposite way then back again.
#36: Re: Torsion bar.. Author: mattymj, Location: NorfolkPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 2:30 pm ---- I had to heat mine to get them out, needed to re-tap the threat after as it got damaged from all the violence hehe
#37: Re: Torsion bar.. Author: Harry, Location: StaffordPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 2:38 pm ---- Yeah my thread is completely messed up
#38: Re: Torsion bar.. Author: Addaz, Location: SuffolkPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 2:49 pm ---- Heat is good, but get a big sledge
I could do that myself, just to clarify the bars can be hit out either way? that way I could loosen it up first and hit the opposite way then back again.
yes,
you knock the bar out whatever way you want.
but if you want to take the whole bar out then you will have to hit it the way that addaz stated before
#40: Re: Torsion bar.. Author: -RAJ-, Location: COVPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 11:18 am ---- you make any progress on this mate? i tried mine today and im in exactly the same situation. top bar came out no problem but the bottom bar wont even move on the drivers side, when hitting from the passenger side it just pushes the whole arm on the drivers.
tried hitting it from drivers to passenger too but no movement, also tried heating and was really giving it some when hitting and didnt even move a mm.
i think next step for me is sledge hammer...:(
#41: Re: Torsion bar.. Author: Seabook, Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 11:28 am ---- sledge hammer will just damage the thread of the bars.
#42: Re: Torsion bar.. Author: -RAJ-, Location: COVPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 11:35 am ---- to prevent damage i put the torx bolt back in loose and used a 16mm socket that went over the bolt and hit the socket with an extension bar on it
my thinking was bigger hammer more power
#43: Re: Torsion bar.. Author: Seabook, Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 11:38 am ---- o. sorry, my bad, for some reason i saw sliding hammer
ya i use 7lb hammer to knock out the whole arm
#44: Re: Torsion bar.. Author: -RAJ-, Location: COVPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 11:44 am ---- yh im only using a 4lb, i got really happy that the top bar came out 1st time, didnt think the 2nd would be this hard, mines a 2006 as well
you make any progress on this mate? i tried mine today and im in exactly the same situation. top bar came out no problem but the bottom bar wont even move on the drivers side, when hitting from the passenger side it just pushes the whole arm on the drivers.
tried hitting it from drivers to passenger too but no movement, also tried heating and was really giving it some when hitting and didnt even move a mm.
i think next step for me is sledge hammer...:(
Yeah I got it done but instead I accepted the torsion bar wasn't moving out the arm so hit the arm just far enough for the other end of the torsion bar to be dragged out of the axle. I then jacked it up to the desired height, hit the arm (wasn't easy to get accurate) and then just adjusted the other side to match.
After all this (and hitting the whole arm out hitting the torsion bar) it still hasn't moved a mm, absolute b*****d. Really cba to adjust the height again because of it
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