Both mine and Louie's made the same awful sound. Can't remember if
Travis Goodwin's did the year following (DRUGS). According to Dave
"they all do."
Bill Robertson
#5939
>--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "timnagin" <timnagin@xxxx> wrote:
> They made no sound whatsoever. I would imagine the sound you heard
being
> made due to the end of the torsion bar being twisted further in the
hinge
> than it should be, and popping back to where it should have been.
>
> The torsion bars on 909 were correct in the hinge, and in the retainer
> plates on the back. The plates even slid off with very little
effort, and
> everything seemed to be original from the factory as there was no
evidence
> of anything having been disassembled before. The only odd thing was
out of
> the four retaining plate bolts, one was 14mm.
>
> Greg
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: content22207 [mailto:brobertson@xxxx]
> Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 7:36 PM
> To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [DMCForum] Continued: Removing Torsion Bars (Not Farrar)
>
>
> When you turn them the other way they crack -- very loudly. Dave uses
> the torsion bars themselves to clean the spline retainers up by
> tapping them on in an alternating teeter-totter fashion. Works
> extremely well (slide on by hand afterwards). Of course the torsion
> bars have to come out to do this.
>
> Bill Robertson
> #5939
>
> >--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "timnagin" <timnagin@xxxx> wrote:
> > The only sounds we heard were the occasional, "sonnofabitch... why
won't
> > this let go?!?" ;)
> >
> > Greg
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: content22207 [mailto:brobertson@xxxx]
> > Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 5:48 PM
> > To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [DMCForum] Re: Removing Torsion Bars
> >
> >
> > Actually it makes the worst sound in the world. Dave Swingle scared me
> > to death when he did it ("that *WAS* a nice DeLorean"). Works,
> > however. Use the same 5 foot extension bar you use to tension them.
> >
> > Bill Robertson
> > #5939
> >
> > >--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Walter Coe" <Whalt@xxxx> wrote:
> > > > The doors came off without a hitch, with only the driver's
> > > side torsion bar deciding to be a bitch to let go of the
> > > front hinge.
> > >
> > > Greg, did you try winding the torsion bar the other way? It
> > > pops loose from the hinge with hardly any effort at all.
> > >
> > > Walt
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