Torsion Bar - Saxperience

elmartha · 12th March 2012, 22:53

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 · 12th March 2012, 22:58

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

danny-vts · 12th March 2012, 23:05

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 · 12th March 2012, 23:16

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

Monkgti · 12th March 2012, 23:45

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 · 13th March 2012, 00:30

google badgermotorsport lowering

or suzukituning lowering

The_Car_Guy · 14th March 2012, 20:50

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 · 14th March 2012, 20:58

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Originally Posted by 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.

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 · 15th March 2012, 00:44

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 · 19th March 2012, 19:44

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 · 7th December 2018, 08:56

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Originally Posted by 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

You made that sound so easy.

I have a feeling however that it's not.