4x4RangerGuy
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- Newton Highlands, MA
- Vehicle Year
- 2003
- Make / Model
- Subaru
- Engine Size
- 2.0
- Transmission
- Manual
Anyone ever have a torsion bar snap on them? Today I got to experience that. I was leaving work and not 1 second after I roll onto High Street do I hear the worst/loudest/scariest noise come from my truck immediately followed by truck diving to the left.
My driver's side torsion bar snapped. I've never seen this happen, especially in a light truck like a Ranger.
So, I push it back to the shop to take a look. My front suspension seems alright, nothing other than major articulation . The torsion bar snapped at the end that mounts on the frame. It turns out that the alignment shop I had align my truck recently maxed out, and I mean maxed out, the adjuster bolt on my driver's side to get camber in spec, on top of me already adjusting it 1.5" from stock. I never noticed it strangely enough (probably because they did both sides).
I'm ok, just kinda frazzled. I'm glad it happened within feet of the shop. Tomorrow I will put my spare torsion bar in and do the alignment myself (with the correct camber bolts). And then I'm going to have a talk with the shop, because I specifically asked them, along being in writing, to NOT adjust the torsion bars. I'm glad I wasn't on the highway where I could have killed someone.
Oy.
My driver's side torsion bar snapped. I've never seen this happen, especially in a light truck like a Ranger.
So, I push it back to the shop to take a look. My front suspension seems alright, nothing other than major articulation . The torsion bar snapped at the end that mounts on the frame. It turns out that the alignment shop I had align my truck recently maxed out, and I mean maxed out, the adjuster bolt on my driver's side to get camber in spec, on top of me already adjusting it 1.5" from stock. I never noticed it strangely enough (probably because they did both sides).
I'm ok, just kinda frazzled. I'm glad it happened within feet of the shop. Tomorrow I will put my spare torsion bar in and do the alignment myself (with the correct camber bolts). And then I'm going to have a talk with the shop, because I specifically asked them, along being in writing, to NOT adjust the torsion bars. I'm glad I wasn't on the highway where I could have killed someone.
Oy.