HELP!!! GTV6 torsion bar nightmare

[TomQ <zippy@domain.elided>]

Robert, I used a slide hammer to get mine out. Maybe try to rent one 
from a shop near by. Put a bolt in the end of the torsion bar and 
"connect" it to the slide hammer's bar somehow. Slam away....

-TomQ
'86 GTV6
Alameda,CA


From: "Robert Savi at TechStyle Computers, Inc" 
<savi@domain.elided>
Subject: HELP!!! GTV6 torsion bar nightmare

OK.  I spent the better part of today trying to get the torsion bars off my
GTV6.  The front A-Arm is off and the front of the torsion bar is free.  But
the back will NOT come out of the crossmember.  I put a bolt in it and
hammered on it for hours, its been lubricated to death, used an impact
hammer... I have tried everything.
AR Ricambi (whose new torsion bars I will be using) had no advice.  They all
said they should pop out easily.  Yeah right!!!  I even used a C clamp
assembly.  A harmonic puller will NOT work since I need to push not pull.
Any ideas?  Pleeeeeeeeeaaaaasssssseeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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