Lowering a torsion bar, nick method...

[KrisB]

There's a lot of valid points here...

- Knocking trailing arms off is OK if the beam is good to start with.
- Some torsion bars are too stubborn nowadays and no kind of puller/slide hammer will touch them, so providing the beams good, you might aswell remove the arms, clean and lubricate the seals and grease up the bars and get your stubborn (drivers side) torsion bar out with the arm off.

However,

Knackered beam and you can wave bye bye to the last of the remaining short future it had.

Doing it the propper way IS the best way to do it, and should be tried before any arms start getting damaged with a sledge hammer. The propper way means that you can lower the car to ANY height and the bars can be cleaned and re-greased. The propper way is also better because you can level out any differences in L/R ride height and obviously you're not limited to 40mm at a time.

306's are the hardest torsion bars out of the lot, Saxo's, 206's, 106's, 405's, 205's are all so easy to do! Has to be the 306 though with the drivers side bar ALWAYS a ladycake.