vipergtrdj
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OK, I know this has been asked many times, and I have read a good 20hours on it before I started to remove mine. Here I am, 7days (4hours a day) of beating on it with everything from a sledge hammer, to an air hammer (3500hits per minute). I even tried to heat the keys up with a Mapp gas torch for 20minutes and no luck.
I am replacing my stock torsion bars for 3/4ton ones, as my adjuster bolt is maxed and it did not move the front end at all, its sagging bad. My torsion bars are stuck in the keys, as well as the Lower Control Arm. I am very frustrated and about to just give up on it.
My question is - will a map gass/ oxy torch kit(the small one available at Home depot/ Lowes for $50-60) work to cut the end of the Torsion bar where the key is? Also would it work to heat up the LCA hot enough to pound out the front end ? I do have the new 3/4ton bars, and keys. So all I need to keep in good shape is the crossmember and the LCA.
BTW - The truck is a 94 K1500 ext cab and its been a new england vehicle its entire life 165k miles (lots of rust). I am in the process of restoring it and I am on the final stages of it. The body panels are all new, and the exhaust is in the process of finishing up. So the only thing left I need to do is the Torsion bars.
Please help - any information would help me at this point. Sorry for the long post.
I am replacing my stock torsion bars for 3/4ton ones, as my adjuster bolt is maxed and it did not move the front end at all, its sagging bad. My torsion bars are stuck in the keys, as well as the Lower Control Arm. I am very frustrated and about to just give up on it.
My question is - will a map gass/ oxy torch kit(the small one available at Home depot/ Lowes for $50-60) work to cut the end of the Torsion bar where the key is? Also would it work to heat up the LCA hot enough to pound out the front end ? I do have the new 3/4ton bars, and keys. So all I need to keep in good shape is the crossmember and the LCA.
BTW - The truck is a 94 K1500 ext cab and its been a new england vehicle its entire life 165k miles (lots of rust). I am in the process of restoring it and I am on the final stages of it. The body panels are all new, and the exhaust is in the process of finishing up. So the only thing left I need to do is the Torsion bars.
Please help - any information would help me at this point. Sorry for the long post.