SwampThing

Heard from a buddy that flippin yer torsion bars upside down gave you a good inch or so extra ride height. I have never heard about this being done, nor the pros and cons, so I was just wondering if anyone's done it, how it worked out for em, and all that good stuff. So, yalls thoughts my fellow yota'ers?

And yes I got started a little early today, so forgive the bad spellin and whatnot lol. Go soco! Mmm spicy...

Bear80

WTF?? Does he mean swap sides.....fine do it and snap a bar. Sounds like the guy is the type that talks out his ass.

91_4x4runner

Just bite the bullet and get a bracket lift or SAS. You've already got 33's on cranked torsion bars don't you? Want me to get you in touch with the guy down here who had the 81 truck for sale?

EDIT: Us San Antonio YT'ers should get together sometime.

Bear80

You guys didn't make the meeting last tuesday night?? Did the word not get over here to 'yotatech??

91_4x4runner

Apparently not to me at least. I never look at the Trip planning board anyways.

Bear80

Well just an fyi, a returning lc owner and myself wanted to revive the LC group in san antonio but it's open to all toyota owners. There was a good turn out of about 13 owner. I'll put a post up when the next meeting will be and send you guys a pm.

DeathCougar

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Torsion bars are round. So no matter what position you put them in, they will always be the same. How exactly do you flip somthing round upside down anyways????

91_4x4runner

Sounds great, thanks. [/hijack].

Torsion bars are uniform on both side, but if you flip sides, won't the bars be twisting the opposite way that they were. That could make for accellerated wear couldn't it?

SwampThing

Aw dang naw I didn't hear bout no git together neither.

But anyhoo, yeah I think that he meant flipping em upsidedown or some such thing. Like I said, I've never even heard of anyone doing anything like that, so I thought I'd ask round here.

Oh yeah, forgot that you weren't gonna be buyin that Eric. Would love to get in touch with that guy. You know how I've been rantin on about gettin me a sas pickup too lol. Caint wait to help with yer swap too! But hey, least now you wont have to pay for alignment and whatnot eh?

Sorry, seem to ramble on when Im drink lol. Caint believe cowboys lost!

Tofer

Your my hero...

i can! yay seattle! (i dont follow football, but i'm from seattle)

thefallman

some wild plays in that game down right WILD

SwampThing

What in the name of high school football!? Bah, blasphamy... If yer from Texas, thou shalt not take the Cowboys name in vain.

But yeah, that was a crazy game...

95RunnerSR5

by flipping he prolly meant cranking them

milowilli

How can you flip them?? They have a master spline which has to line up in the socket.

91_4x4runner

I'll go ahead and get his information this weekend and pass it on to you. Funny, I had a dream that I dropped a s/c'ed 1UZ into it last night and was tearing everything up on my farm.

SwampThing

Awesome

Haha well maybe not a dream, more of a premonition. After we git er done on yers, maybe we'll do it to mine money permitting. Lordy... A 1UZ in a 80's style p/u with a sfa... Dunno, maybe I'll go the 350sbc route. We'll see!

Bear80

Not only that, the a-arm end is larger than the anchor end. Only option is to swap sides and there is no way in hell I'd drive or ride in that thing. If you twist hardened spring metal past zero they will SNAP.

SwampThing

Lol I get it, I shouldn't even think about trying it. Yeah I can turn my tbars up another inch or so, but it was a little ruff for someone who has three vertibre fused togther lol.

tc

Was probably thinking about those POS Ford "I-Beam" suspensions or whatever they were called - you get lift on them by flipping them over...

InternetRoadkill

As mentioned above, the Tbars have a keyed splines. I think they'll only go in one way.

As far as swapping sides, I replaced my bars not too long ago and the installation instructions had all kinds of warnings to make sure they were installed on the proper side. I'm not sure why, but I'm guessing the bars may be pre-stressed to work in a particular direction.