Torsion Bars

[The70RT]

I am installing my torsion bars and the service manual doesn't say how far to install them into the LCR. Do I bottom them out or just enough to install the Clip?

[tan top]

hmmm , do you know something never thought about that before , i just slide them in as far as they go , then put the retaining clip in ... .. how much can you move them , ? i have not removed & installed enough bars on different mopars ..to say whats the  normal etc ....are they original bars ..or new ones  , 

[The70RT]

I bottomed one out in the LCA and I had like  maybe an inch between the clip and the bar. I measured my originals so they are the same length. I figured maybe after you drove it they would settle in? or maybe they move back and forth anyway and it dosent matter? Out of fall the mopars I had I never had to have any out. Of course that was when they were newer back in the day.

[The70RT]

I put them in last night. I put them is so there is about a 1/4" past the clip. 32 people have viewed this but no one chimed in except Tan Top....oh well I guess it doesn't matter and this was another one of my stupid questions again 

[Nacho-RT74]

just enough to mount the C clip... BUT IMHO I will try to get same deep hex section on each end, ( LCA and Crossmember ), because they are getting basically same loads on both ends

[superduperbee]

I just push them in far enough to get the clip in. They will move around when driving,control arm bushings flex etc. just put lots of grease on them

[tan top]

I just push them in far enough to get the clip in. They will move around when driving,control arm bushings flex etc. just put lots of grease on them

yeap agreed , just been down to have a lookie at mine  , thats what i had done , could not remember before , when i first posted

[The70RT]

Thanks guys....sounds like i did the right thing 

[Belgium R/T -68]

I just push them in far enough to get the clip in. They will move around when driving,control arm bushings flex etc. just put lots of grease on them

Grease? I knew I forgot something.