Re: [DML] Broken torsion bar

["Dave Swingle" <swingle_dmc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually there is about 45 degrees of twist in the bar with the door 
wide open. Still a pretty good pent up hunk of energy. 

Generally though a bar will fail with the door shut since it's more 
twisted at that point. I have seen a bar fail with the door 1/2 open, 
but it was a welded-up bar. 

Dave S

--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "cbl1739" <cbl302@...> wrote:
>
> --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Ryan Wright" <ryanpwright@> wrote:
> >
> > > If so, why all this talk about welding them? Just buy one. I'm 
not
> > sure I'd want to be around an open DeLorean door with a welded 
torsion
> > bar.
> > 
> > -Ryan
> >
> Actually Ryan,when the door is open,the torsion bar is NOT under 
> load,so the chances of getting zinged by a piece of the torsion bar 
is 
> rather slim,that is why you always hear of torsion bars snapping 
with 




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