Pulled my torsions out today..whats everybody think?

I took my bumpstops out and my T bars are cranked I have around 1/4 on the lca. The shocks are blown and fully compressed and it rides like TRON. lol

1hotdawg yeah thats what i figured i plan on getting some shorter shocks in the future and making the truck all around low..right now its riding on some gabriel gas shocks so that and being on the bumpstops is temporary..and haha mazdaron form over function i guess right? ohh and to anyone who cares i brung my torsion bars to school with me and with a table vice a big hammer a block of wood a die grinder with a cutting wheel and alot of wd40 and some pin punches i got the welds cut out and the brackets off the splines and the good news is there not stripped so i cleaned up the threads and they fit beautifully

I say put them back in.

You could always knock the bolt end off and clock those the 2 splines as opposed to where it bolts to the lca. Running without torsions is a bad idea unless you're bagged, or have fine some kind if hot rod cool overs up front. The torsion bar is the equivalent of a macpherson strut on the front of a fwd car. Its what gives your vehicle its spring. The shock only absorbs what the torsion doesn't, and a shock by itself isn't designed to hold a vehicles weight. A torsion bar is. I say rekey your bars at the end where the bolt decides the tension/ride height, and reinstall, after cutting out the bump stop that comes in contact with your lca. And isuzu 4wd pup shocks since you're running stockies for tires (atleast that's what it looks like from the picture.

yes i know how they work and there purpose the plan was to reindex them only took them off because someone had welded the above the splines..so i got the mounts off yesterday splines are good there going back on shortly the truck isnt driven yet anyway

It the torsion bars have been welded on, I'd throw them out and replace them ASAP!

haha luckily whoever welded them obviously wasnt to good with a little help from a die grinder some wd40 and a big ass hammer i got them off no problem haha..my luck that id go to reindex them and there welded haha never intended to fully remove them but had no other choice

If they have been welded on, even a lousy weld, they have been ruined.

they seemto be fine they cleaned up great luckily the weld wasnt on the splines at all but right above them i was expecting the splines to be stripped but to my surprise they werent..im not worried about it right now trucks probably not gonna be on the road any time soon