RE: [DMCForum] Continued: Removing Torsion Bars (Not Farrar)

["timnagin" <timnagin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

They made no sound whatsoever.  I would imagine the sound you heard being
made due to the end of the torsion bar being twisted further in the hinge
than it should be, and popping back to where it should have been.

The torsion bars on 909 were correct in the hinge, and in the retainer
plates on the back.  The plates even slid off with very little effort, and
everything seemed to be original from the factory as there was no evidence
of anything having been disassembled before.  The only odd thing was out of
the four retaining plate bolts, one was 14mm.

Greg



-----Original Message-----
From: content22207 [mailto:brobertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 7:36 PM
To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [DMCForum] Continued: Removing Torsion Bars (Not Farrar)


When you turn them the other way they crack -- very loudly. Dave uses
the torsion bars themselves to clean the spline retainers up by
tapping them on in an alternating teeter-totter fashion. Works
extremely well (slide on by hand afterwards). Of course the torsion
bars have to come out to do this.

Bill Robertson
#5939

>--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "timnagin" <timnagin@xxxx> wrote:
> The only sounds we heard were the occasional, "sonnofabitch... why won't
> this let go?!?"  ;)
>
> Greg
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: content22207 [mailto:brobertson@xxxx]
> Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 5:48 PM
> To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [DMCForum] Re: Removing Torsion Bars
>
>
> Actually it makes the worst sound in the world. Dave Swingle scared me
> to death when he did it ("that *WAS* a nice DeLorean"). Works,
> however. Use the same 5 foot extension bar you use to tension them.
>
> Bill Robertson
> #5939
>
> >--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Walter Coe" <Whalt@xxxx> wrote:
> > > The doors came off without a hitch, with only the driver's
> > side torsion bar deciding to be a bitch to let go of the
> > front hinge.
> >
> > Greg, did you try winding the torsion bar the other way?  It
> > pops loose from the hinge with hardly any effort at all.
> >
> > Walt

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