Re: Torsion Bars reversed?

["dmcxii" <dswingle@xxxx>]

Turning the bar around would also make it somewhat difficult to 
adjust, since the allen-head end will now be somewhere just inside of 
the windshield.

I've heard of welding broken bars back together (Don Steger), and 
reproduction of this part kind of falls into the same paradigm as the 
left front fenders. There are more parts-cars every day, and this is 
NOT a particularly high failure rate part. No one will invest in 
reproducing them until there is enough pent-up-demand AND lack of 
used parts to sell a large enough quantity at the initial production 
run to recover the investment. At least no one with any business 
sense, and this includes most of the current major vendors. 

Dave Swingle 

--- In dmcnews@xxxx, "tmpintnl" <tobyp@xxxx> wrote:
> Walt had pointed out that it may be possible to create a custom 
> forward hinge for the driver's side door that would have a splined 
> bore in it rather than the hex bore. The forward end of each 
torsion 
> bar is a hex shape, and the aft end is splined. As Walt hinted, it 
> may be possible to reverse the bars if the hinge was changed, and 
also 
> the retention bracket in the back was changed to have a hex bore. 
> This would definitely represent a worst-case scenario, because two 
new 
> machined parts with broached bores (splined and hex) would be 
> relatively spendy.