RE: [DMCForum] Re: Cracking Torsion Bars Loose

["timnagin" <timnagin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't know what to tell you, mine didn't make any sound.  I have two
witnesses, too :)

Greg



-----Original Message-----
From: content22207 [mailto:brobertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 11:03 PM
To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [DMCForum] Re: Cracking Torsion Bars Loose


Both mine and Louie's made the same awful sound. Can't remember if
Travis Goodwin's did the year following (DRUGS). According to Dave
"they all do."

Bill Robertson
#5939

>--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "timnagin" <timnagin@xxxx> wrote:
> 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@xxxx]
> 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

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