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I dont have a good close up of the mounts but i got them from s10v8.com ls1 conversion mounts to 2.8l frame mounts i just welded and bolted the 2.8 frame mounts directly to the original luv mount on frame

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just sat cab on today

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need a front bumper or front valance very bad!

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hey brandon what did you do about torsion bars just cut them and thread them to get a bolt on the back side of lower control arm?

getting ready to put my coilovers on


thanks in advance

just cut them off they wont come out i figured this out someway lol havent messed with it in a while but im pretty sure they wont come out

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ok cool thanks! I ll look it over I think the bolt on the front side does suck it in so I bet your right

yea i think that was the reason

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are yall taking about where the front of the bar goes inthe a-frame? should pull out.
when i got my step side the drivers side was cut off at the front i couldn't get it to come out either, so i started soaking it in wd-40 and tapping on it finally it came out but it had a suction on it due to the rust that made it a tight fit...i would pull alittle and it would suck back in a little...i used a set of channel locks and a screwdriver,i would pull it out and use the screw drive to hold it in place so i could get another bite on it with the channel locks.

i havent lookeed at mine but i think it will only come out the back and there is a nut on the front. and there no room for it to move forward.

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Go to my project thread and look at the 2nd and 8th picture.... is that the area your talking about?

i did try to knock mine out with a sledge hammer with no weight on it and it wouldnt budge if u wanted to be safe u could take a big nut or washer and put it around the back side and weld it so it couldnt move. the front side is locked
there a pic on the first page where u can see it

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yea thats it with the nut on the front side and nothing on the back. i might put the nut or washer on and weld it i dont ant to fight getting it out.

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i see the stub sticking out and it should pull out, what i did was get a bite with pliers on the stub end,tapped the sides and pulled at the same time, it took some soaking in WD-40 but it came out eventually.with what you have you could get some vise grips and lock them down on the stub and tap on them but soak the hell out of it first for a couple of days( spray it everyday ) if you haven't done that already.

what did you put in place of it after you pulled it CT's Luv? I was thinking like what brandon said have something on the back side but not tight up against the lower control arm might cause a bind. Glad I mentioned something about that to ya brandon that would suck for it to slip out which would be hard but still just for security.

I am following your build as well its coming along! I am going to have to fabricate the mounts for my qa 1's (like you have done) it has the eye mount. I would rather just make it than buying the stud conversion.

i was just replacing the T-bar not going to coil over, i would silicon a plastic pipe plug in if you could.

ok after looking at it seems the reason i did nothing is because the only way the torsion bar to come out is to pull the nut off the front and pull to rear. It cannot go forward because of its size....actual bar is bigger then the end where it bolts on. so there is no need to do anything if it did randomly your steering would hit it. but if your real worried about it then do somethin about it

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Gosh ya know I pulled torsion bars out of a luv before just never looked closely. Its been cold outside haven't done much since the engine pull cause after that it started. but it tapers down oh ok sorry I didnt look so close oops

Thanks

gastank mounted aluminum came out of a boat!

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took heads off to get redone and patriot dual gold valve springs put in

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