Hello Yall,

Ok maybe not actually from hell, but you get my drift

Working on my 92 toyota pickup 4x4 extra cab on replacing my torsion bars and I am just being absolutely defeated from these torsion anchor bolts, I have the front end jacked up, placed my jack stands, and I am letting the axle droop to release as much tension as I can on the bars. The bars were clearly tightened as much as humanly possible to jack the truck as high as possible and has likely been that way for a loooooong time.

I have tried to impact the bolt/nut, got them red hot with a torch, constantly coating in PB blaster, 4 feet worth of breaker bar and for the absolute life of me this nut will not break loose, I was able to get the bolt and nut to break from the threads and turn just fine but separating them from each other seems impossible, from what I have read I am definitely not going to cut them, although I really wish I could. From what I have read everyone's best recommendation was to stay a safe distance and force the bolt to snap with a breaker.

I was wondering if anyone had any tips or tricks? maybe im missing something here?


Thanks,
Sam

 

Had the same issue when putting new torsions on my pickup. Bolts rusted and didn’t want to come out no matter what you did. Ending up using a 1 inch steel bar (about 6 feet long) as a breaker bar to get them loose. Give you plenty of room to be in a safe spot, though it takes so finagling to line it up right to be able to get a good range of motion.

Good luck!

 

If you have replacement bolts, just cut them about half way then put a breaker bar on it

 

Agreed, sounds like those bolts will be damaged/destroyed once you managed to get them off. Cut em and replace them.

LCE Torsion bolt kit

Truck should be around 14in from the top of the rim to the bottom of the Quarted panel. Max lift 15in.

 

For $32, cut em and chunk em.