Torsion bars

[Mesa1232]

1st time posting and been researching for while now to no avail. So here it goes. 98 tahoe 4wd lt 2dr, put a 4in lift on it. Go to put the torsion bars back in and driver side doesn't seem to operate correctly. What it does is when pressured with key it puts so much pressure on lca that soon as you try to lift almost immediately lifts truck. Doesn't have give before lifts truck up. Looked for binding...resistance anything but have found nothing. New bushings in lca as well. At a loss to what could be causing this. Ideas???

 

[Caman96]

They are left to right AND front to back specific. Did you mark them?

 

[Sean Buick 76]

And did you put them in the correct index in the lower control arms?

 

[Mesa1232]

Yes I apologize, forgot to mention that. They are left, right and back to front. We've rotated the bar all way around. No matter which slflat spot we tried was the same.

 

[Schurkey]

They are left, right and back to front. We've rotated the bar all way around.

Huh? Is that like rotating tires, where you deliberately move them from where they were, to a new position?

You put the torsion bar from the left side onto the right side, and the front of the bar is now the rear?

 

[Mesa1232]

I was referring to the indexing of the bar, rotating the bar on the flat spots.

 

[SNCTMPL]

Did you have weight on the front end before you tightened the control arm bolts?

 

[Mesa1232]

Did you have weight on the front end before you tightened the control arm bolts?

We installed polyurethane bushings in the lca. So don't have to do that.