rear torsion bar removal

[zx_volcane]

Those collars do screw in, so probably they do screw out, but mine wouldn't budge.

Other option would be to smash them through and replace the collars and studs.

I put it all back together and tbh you can get pretty fine adjustment just on those splines, pikey or not the shafts had come out anyway.

Hopefully the bearings won't fail now, heard so many horror stories.

I know they screw in..........the point of them is to take up the slack at the end of the bar, they are a threaded stud with like a thick washer in the middle, you aren't screwing them out unless you can get a 15mm fixed washer though an 8mm hole

If you have only got one side of the bars out IIRC the adjustment is 20-30mm a spline, if you get both ends out then the adjustment is, pretty much, infinite

Not the stud, but the collar that the 8mm hole is in screws out of the arm, or would do if it wasn't seized in.

I'm checking with pug now to see how readily available the collars and studs are before i take it apart again and smashing the torsion bar through via the stud and have to replace them.

20-30mm on the splines? I must have been lucky, as had no problems getting the bars back in. I adjusted it twice and didn't have to fiddle about up and down.