Re: [DML] Re: torsion bar removal

[Peter Lucas <lucas@xxxx>]

I have performed this procedure as well, and can confirm that it works 
exactly as David and Mark have described it. With patience and a small 
hammer you will eventually force the bar out of the bracket. It isn't 
*too* scary.

But, as I hammered away, I wondered what would actually have happened if 
I had let the other end of the bar slip out of its socket. With the door 
fully open there is "only" about 3 splines worth of pretensioning on the 
bar, and that can be somewhat reduced by allowing the bracket to rotate 
part way down to the window glass. Moreover, by the time the bar made it 
out of the socket, the bracket would be fairly far away from the glass. 
I could imagine the whole thing being pretty much a non-event. Of 
course, I could imagine other things, too...

Please note: I AM NOT RECOMMENDING THIS. Just wondering.

On Tuesday, January 8, 2002, at 11:18 AM, mcookwwi wrote:
<snip>
> We figured this was about the only way to accomplish this short of
> destroying the bar and having to buy a new one. (it was the passenger
> side). But who wants to deplete something we may need some day?

<snip>

--Pete Lucas
VIN #06703