Torsion Bar

[elmartha]

I have just bought a new back axle for my Vts and before i fit it i am going to lower it, the front end is lowered 40-45mm and i was wondering how many turns of the torsion bar would equate to roughly the same amount of lowering? Thanks :)

[saxo-parts]

don't do it by turns or notches or you'll be needing another new one

[danny-vts]

take the torsion bars out and lower it that way.

as jason said, if you do it by notches/turns you will need another axle.

[elmartha]

Well how then? Sorry to sound stupid but ive never done a torsion bar before! Done just about everything but

[Monkgti]

just slide the torsion bar out of the 2 sides, move the arm to the desired height then slide it back in! To get the exact height you may have the turn the bar until the splines match up to slide in where you want the arm set

[LSOfreak]

google badgermotorsport lowering

or suzukituning lowering

[The_Car_Guy]

Hi there ive tried lowering the back of mine but cant even get the torsion bars out. I have taken off the washers from each end soaked the bars in wd40 and managed to snap my slide hammer, shear off 3 blots using the jacking method and have no ideas as to what i could do next? Ive seen people say they put a bar on the rear of the bar and hit it out with a sledge hammer but theres no space as far as i can see unless im being daft. Any ideas of advice on how to get the bars out? Believe me setting the height is the easy bit, or at least it cant be harder than this.

[BertieG]

Hi there ive tried lowering the back of mine but cant even get the torsion bars out. I have taken off the washers from each end soaked the bars in wd40 and managed to snap my slide hammer, shear off 3 blots using the jacking method and have no ideas as to what i could do next? Ive seen people say they put a bar on the rear of the bar and hit it out with a sledge hammer but theres no space as far as i can see unless im being daft. Any ideas of advice on how to get the bars out? Believe me setting the height is the easy bit, or at least it cant be harder than this.

how is there no space? get a long metal drift, a big hammer and go to town on it. should start to budge eventually

[KrisB]

My advise to anyone attempting a torsion bar for the first time is to leave it to a pro.

I can get a torsion bar lowered in less than an hour (infact, for some propper strange reason I lowered a whole car last week in just under an hour, epic).

Once a pro has done it for you, you'll find that it should of been cleaned and all greased up... THEN you can attempt to do it yourself.

It really isn't as easy as the guides make out, especially if its the first time its been apart. Some are easy, somtimes, but in most cases they're not.

:)

[elmartha]

Took me 12.5 hours, but i had to swap axles, hubs, brakes, abs sensors, new shockers, lower it etc, nothing went right on the job haha I broke a torsion bar when i was slide hammering it out best way to do it is to not do it in the first place!

[S6SAXO]

just slide the torsion bar out of the 2 sides, move the arm to the desired height then slide it back in! To get the exact height you may have the turn the bar until the splines match up to slide in where you want the arm set

You made that sound so easy. :homme:

I have a feeling however that it's not. :p