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What is the easiest way to lower a 74 luv without too much work or effort? Please contact me at my email address if anyone knows anything. my address is brandonwoodsie@hotmail.com thanks

On the front you just take a few turns out of the torsion bars and cut or remove the rubber bottom out pads.

On the rear, you add lowering blocks and longer u bolts.

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how much drop are you going to get in the front, by adjusting the torsion bar

mine is 2.75 inches lower in the front

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how did you get that much drop, i tried it, and i dont even think i got half and inch. i even took them all the way off, and still didnt get anymore

i lowered my pup about 4 inches inthe front with the torsions. rides like a POS but its low. lol

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Not sure what the problem is with yours but every one I have lowered I have done this way... yours may be stuck or if it is possible someone may have replaced them and didn’t set them right? Not sure

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do you have your sway bar on still

mine does

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CTMANDU is right, I have lowered several this way. Like he said, maybe someone has indexed the bars wrong. You should notice a difference after about 2 turns.

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i have one that is 4in all around

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omg i feel like an idiot, i was looking thru some old posts, and i was loosening the wrong thing.

this is my first truck with torsion bar suspension. im used to springs.

so now that i know what they are ill try it again.

it drives fine put a little bumpy

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Ok so what where you loosening. And good luck should be a lot easier now... Also remember after you lower it to where you want ride around the block and recheck sometimes one side settles more then the other and you may need to make another adjustment

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it was on the bump stops

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so how do i loosen the torsion bars
do you do it from the front, or from the back (by the trany cross member)

there a 7/8 bolt by the trans crossmember

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there is a 7/8 bolt, by the trany crossmember. ok do i tighten it or loosen it

If you loosen the torsion bars and lower the front your actually unloading the tension and softening the spring rate as well.


Makes the front of the ute roll heaps when you turn.


Depending on how far your lowering you should pull the torsion bar out and move it around a spline.



Bob.

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the torsion bolts are reverse threads right, so to loosen them i have to act like im tightening them right or are they normal bolts?