Dear Dave, My passenger side torsion bar has also been scratched by contact with the hinge. Are you saying that your passenger side torsion bar got scratched by the hinge, and is still intact, or that your passenger side torsion bar got scratched by the hinge, and failed? I'm interested in knowing more about your torsion bar so I might know the probable/possible outcome of my own torsion bar. The idea that this scrape is sitting there concentrating the stress bothers me a lot. I've since put cushioning between the torsion bar and hinge, but the damage is done, of course. Thank you for your help. Rick Gendreau vin11472 --- In dmcnews@xxxx, "jtrealtywebspannet" <jtrealty@xxxx> wrote: > It happened to me on my passenger bar. The bar rubbed on the rear > hinge. I now keep a small piece of rubber cut from an inner tube > between the torsion bars and the rear hinge. It is especially > important to use the rubber at the time the bars are adjusted as they > can move around a lot more and have a greater chance of contacting the > rear hinge. > David Teitelbaum > vin 10757 >