I hate doing anything with torsion bars. Everytime I have dealt with them, it has been a problem for me.

Also, I know this has been discussed many times,but I need some help, I have done this several times before, but I'm stuck now.

I am replacing my torsion bars as my passenger side Calmini t-bar got bent on a rock.

I have the rear anchors off. Both t-bars are stuck on the front anchors and I cannot get them out. I have loosened two of the three bolts on the front anchors: on each side, the upper small nut is stripped and I can't get it loose, but the other two are loose. I think this is enough to take the pressure off. Also, I hate to cut those bolts off, because the only way to get to them, as I see, is to remove the LCA's

So, here's where I am, two t-bars stuck in the LCA's hanging freely in the back.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Scott have you tried any heat and a BFH? That's always worked for me.

If I am reading this right, the front anchors are still attached to the LCA's, and because of the stripped nuts you cannot get them off of the LCA's - is that correct?

Can you get a pair of water pump pliers on the stripped nuts to get the front anchors off? Can you get a nut splitter onto the stripped nuts?

Channel locks...no, not enough grip. Tried the BFH and not enough room for my nut splitter.

I'm going to try to get some of those sockets that you can put on rounded bolts tomorrow and try that. I would use a cold chisle, but if I screw up the threads, the only way to get the bolt out is to drop the LCA.

Time for this.

if you have the rear anchors off (adjusters), then there should be no pressure. i'm confused.

did you try putting vise grips on the tbar and then bfh'ing the vise grips. thats what i did at ecxc with that one canuck's tbar that stripped out.

So am I, that's why I posted.

Tried that too, but hit it hard, have not banged the crap out of it.

just trying to help man. the only time ive seen that happen is when the tbar is stripped in the anchor. i think you have no choice but to cut the bolt off, and use a 3 prong puller to seperate the tbar from the anchor.

No, I didn't mean to be sarcastic; I appreciate the help. I just don't understand. I've had problems in the past getting the ajusters off. I had to take off the crossmember. They should just pull out of the front anchors the way they are now, but they are locked in.

rust is a bitch. i helped once with a 3 inch lift were we had to replace tbars and they would not come off unless i removed the anchor and used a 3 prong puller to seperate the tbar from the front anchor...

Well, I got one side out. It's a 14mm head and I hammered on a 13mm impact socked and got it off. I haven't tried the other side yet...enjoying my momentary success.

The t-bar is siezed into the anchor still. I put those on and used never-seize and grease, thinking they would never fuse. Damn salt. I even soaked it with PB blaster for the past week. Tried a three-jaw puller, to no avail yet, but I have it soaking now. I think I will order new anchors anyway to be safe and have spares.

Now, wish me luck on the other side.

Done!

Good deal Scott.

We have the same problem with Mike's frontier..

you could just do a SAS or two and never have to deal with them again..