I have to say, too, that I've never seen a broken or snapped torsion bar.
But I've heard some tales of 57 models having this happen, and seeing as it
was a brand new technology at the time, I can see where maybe there may have
been a few break, here and there. Worse torsion bar I ever saw, was on a old
67 Fury, that I parted out for my old boss. The adjustment bolts were ran
all the way in, and it was still sagged big time, also, it had a big block
in an original small block car, so it didn't have the bigger, big block
bars. The old critter had about a gazillion abusive miles on it too, so if
those bars didn't snap, I doubt that the bars on our Imps, (REQUISITE
IMPERIAL CONTENT!!!) ever will.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim H Fielding" <bonhoffer@xxxxxxxx>
To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 9:17 PM
Subject: Re: IML: breaking torsion bars
> Well, I sure stand corrected. I had never heard of a torsion bar
> breaking. I guess it makes sense though. Any spring can break so why
> not? I am kind of curious about the circumstances under which the folks
> out there have seen them break. One posting references cars sitting
> still for a long time. Does anybody else have a story to illustrate why
> the ones that broke did so? I've personally never played with anything
> older than a 64 so if its just the 50-somethings that break maybe that's
> why I'm ignorant on this one.
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