It is not possible to adjust the bar away from the hinge. I am familiar with the roofing materiel you are refering to. It is not meant to take much mechanical abuse. I think the materiel from an old inner tube is much more durable. Go to any big tire shop and I am sure if you ask nice they will give you an old, shredded inner tube. Even a bike shop would have old inner tubes, same materiel. Truck shops best source, many trucks still use inner tubes. When I adjust torsion bars I slip a piece of rubber between the bar and the hinge just for piece of mind. I usually have some extra pieces so I just leave the piece in there. If you get an old inner tube you will have enough for every Delorean within 100 miles! You don't have to "stretch" the stuff into place. You can put your fingers (NO RINGS) around the bar and just pull it away from the hinge until you can slip the rubber into place. David Teitelbaum vin 10757 --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Rod Dillman <rhdillman@...> wrote: > > After reading David's last post regarding a possible solution to torsion bar failure, I inspected both on my car. The passenger side bar easily clears the rear hinge and shows no sign of it touching any part of the hinges. I can get two calling cards between it and the roof hinge. Just as David stated, the driver's side is another story. The torsion bar has a small bright spot on it on the front side of the rear hinge. The bright spot is about one eighth of a inch wide and has to be caused by the bar touching something, probably the top of the roof hinge. The bright spot is perfectly smooth and has no scratch or indented feel. I took a piece of EPDM roofing material and cut it about one half of an inch wide and about six inches long. I placed it in front of the hinge, behind the torsion bar and streached it until it went behind the bar at the bright spot. Contact held it in place. Once i To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:dmcnews-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:dmcnews-fullfeatured@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/