I have an old school prolite with a torsion bar rear end with internal adjusters.
My big drama is I can't get the torsion bar out of the housing. I am an ex mechanic but have never dealt with VW stuff before so I was just assuming the bloody thing would pull out. I hopefully have attached some pics and any help would be great.
'Natures Loctite'. Spray heaps of penetrating oil (Wurth Rost Off or similar) into the area of the adjuster, hook a big slide hammer to the torsion bar & pull away. When this system was used in VWs there was no way water could get at the inner spline & they would come out easily but as you can imagine there will be years of corrupion down that adjuster hole, just make sure when you pull that the adjuster can't try to be pulled crooked as it will lock onto the splines, may require a wedge to hold it straight. Use heaps of anti sieze when reassembling. Good luck
Thanks heaps for the response I was wondering whether some sneaky sadistic mongrel had put a grub screw or something similar, the BFH is prepared along with plenty of choice words I'm sure the teachers of my kids are going to ring me about tomorrow. Will keep you updated.
Thanks heaps for the response I was wondering whether some sneaky sadistic mongrel had put a grub screw or something similar, the BFH is prepared along with plenty of choice words I'm sure the teachers of my kids are going to ring me about tomorrow. Will keep you updated.
lmao. Coffee just came out my nose.
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Green Sally up. Green Sally down. Lift and squat, gonna tear the ground.
Still going and just bought a bigger slide hammer. Seems that throwing stuff, swearing and having a mental breakdown just aint cutting the grade so far. I thought that this racing stuff only hurt your wallet but I am sure I have lost a whole lot of dignity because it has almost beaten me. I would go to it with a grinder but it is 6 inches away from the fuel tank.
At least I now know why some of you older blokes dribble and mumble to yourselves. Too many weekends working on buggies.HaHa.
Call me a chicken but I think I'll stick with the BFH. Just came back from picking up an SR20 out of Melb as mine was an unknown and we found a soft piston with only 70 Brunel which should have been about 110 so as soft as plasticine. No excuses now back out to the R&D centre for some more soul destroying fun. P.S. thanks for the donk Hubber very generous and some serious shouts from me at the bar next race.
Sorry a bit cryptic 'donk Hubber' is Mark Hubber 298 who gave me a stripped SR20 he had lying about (very generous) and Brunel if I spelt it correctly (which I didn't) is the brinnel scale from the Rockwell test measures the hardness of the metal.
Sorry spelt it incorrectly the first time.
-- Edited by Pedroski on Monday 14th of November 2011 10:25:28 AM
Nope I now have a porta power ram pushing on it whilst using a slide hammer and a six foot steel bar being hit with a sledge hammer. Tonight is the last chance before I cut the torsion bar and housing next to the inner adjuster and pull out the two parts separately.
Finally removed unfortunately in two pieces and just to really depress me once out the spline came apart with a small punch. The splines were completely dry even after two different cans of spray and a week of soaking.
For sale slightly abused torsion bar. See pictures.
