Indexing torsion bars question, where do I take the out?

Do I beat them out where they are attached under the cab, or at the lower control arms?

We did the end that is under the cab. But when we tapped on the key(I suppose that is what it is called) one bar actually came out of the control arm, so I suppose you could do either. But I would think it would be a lot easier to maneuver a small piece of metal compared to a 3 1/2 foot long torsion bar.

Unbolt them from under the cab and they should just slide out from the control arm you may need to tap them slightly with a hammer, make sure to mark them before you pull them out so you know how many splines you are moving them.

I can't find the tech on it. Of course the tech area is down. But I thought there was a thread on it.

Yeah I think there may have been but if I still had torsions I could take pics.

Thanks guys, well I figured it out here is what happened........

Last week after dropping the rear of my truck my son laughed, and told me the Mexicans would be clapping me down the street if I drove my truck out.

The front was slightly raised in proportion to the rear.

So today I raise the truck up the the front. Got up under it, and started with the drivers side first. I got the impact gun and tried to take the bolt out............no luck.

So I tried the passenger side just to be sure I was doing it right. Well it buzzed right out.

So I get the breaker bar out and again attempt to get the bolt on the drivers side torsion out....{I think you all can see where this is going}.

The bolt would barely move. So, not wanting to break the bolt I got my torch out. I heated the adjuster to a cherry red. Success the bolt would now move. I then turned around so that I could heat the other side of the adjuster. It was then that I noticed the neat row of 5, two gallon plastic gas tanks, all full.

After moving the gas tanks to a safe location, the stupid bolt stuck again. So I reheated the adjuster, the bolt turned again then.........................POW!

Something hit my hand and it immediately went numb, not good. The bolt had broken. The torsion arm had hit my hand since it was still under load when the bolt went awol.

I pulled off my glove and inspected my hand. I could still move everything, although its gonna be a pretty shade of blue tomorrow. So now I went to work on drilling out the broken bolt......yeah right.

After three hours of drilling and changing drill bits, and heating the adjuster I was about to give up.

I finally got the idea to cut the adjuster down its length on both sides. This worked. The #$%$@$#@ bolt finally came out. I then took the broken part of the bolt that had came out first and put it into the halved adjuster.

I then clamped the adjuster with the bolt together and welded it solid again.

Now I don't have too many metric bolts in my arsenal so I found a 7/16 hardened bolt and tapped the adjuster and went back up under the truck and got everything back together.

Now the truck looks right, so I can get a better look on what tires to get when my 18" Nissan wheels get in.

Boy what a day.

Just to make you feel better, my son did his when he was 14. He was able to turn the bolts out all by himself. Just thought I'd be a jerk about it.

LOL, my 110lb wife could have done it if that $@$@ bolt hadn't got stuck.

You know its ALWAYS something like this happens to make an easy job hard, sorta like taking the old exhaust manifold off and a stupid bolt breaking off in the head.

im looking to do this soon but i cant find the article i saw on here before that had pictures and whatnot

It is gonna, I am going to try and make one this weekend. It is real easy, to be honest I'm not sure if someone can't figure it out from looking at it that they should be doing it.