Duallylife
Newbie
Ok so for the last few weekends I have been trying to change the torsion bars in my 93 k3500, I was told go a set stiffer since these ones flattened out, and I have 2 plow harnesses, and Will be adding a heavy front bumper. And my plow is a heavy one. So I went from factory GL to XG bars. Due to the bars not coming out and my one LCA having a small rot hole I went to a wreckers and got a set of forged LCA's from a 8lug 2500 on the advice of a few guys who have used them instead of my stamped ones. The indexing looks the same on them, and I put the torsion bar in the passenger side knowing they're side and front to back specific.. And I noticed my old bars relaxed the keys sat horizontal (facing 9 o'clock or so.) the new ones either sit maxed out in the crossmember giving me no tension at all, or around 7 o'clock. I got too scared trying to load them with my buddy's tool for fear of losing fingers since I was cranking pretty hard with a 24" ratchet, at that point I stuck a jack under the LCA and lifted hardly moving it before I was lifting the whole truck. I grabbed a bottle jack and stuck it up against the key since its stronger then the tool and jacked up untill it lifted the truck off the Jack stand and I was still just shy of being able to get the adjuster bolt in. Should it be that hard?, were mine that sagged? Or am I doing something wrong that I'm not seeing? I'm afraid of either breaking something or having no suspension at all, if I manage to crank them in will they maybe "relax and settle" a bit over time?
I can only blame myself here, but I'm sort of screwed here since this is my work truck and I had to torch the old bars off to get them and the LCA's off they were rusted so bad so I have nothing to put back in if need be.
I can only blame myself here, but I'm sort of screwed here since this is my work truck and I had to torch the old bars off to get them and the LCA's off they were rusted so bad so I have nothing to put back in if need be.