Help, can't get rear torsion bars out of the swing arms

[Elibomrod68]

Hello,trying to lift the rear of the bus and have successfully removed suspension.
The torsion bar slid out of the inner part on the bus easy peasy...

But both sides are stuck in the swing arms, so I can only adjust by one inner spine.

Anyone got any advice on pressing torsion bar from swing arm.
Have tried a bit of penitrating oil plus a bit of heat from a kitchen blow torch. Plus trying to press out with a 5" vice.
Neither budged a sausage!

Cheers Si

 

[Moseley]

I’d take them off the bus, put the arms in a vice, or rested on top of a vice with the torsion arm hanging down through the jaws, then get a massive drift and a sledgehammer and give it a damn good beating!

Bear in mind, the inner and outer splines are different, so you want to mark the orientation of the parts before you remove them from the bus and separate them.


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[cunning plan]

I’d take them off the bus, put the arms in a vice, or rested on top of a vice with the torsion arm hanging down through the jaws, then get a massive drift and a sledgehammer and give it a damn good beating!

Bear in mind, the inner and outer splines are different, so you want to mark the orientation of the parts before you remove them from the bus and separate them.


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This is correct ^

Add a blow torch for lots of heat. :character0036:

 

[Elibomrod68]

I'll give it a beating tomorrow...

Ta

 

[K@rlos]

When you reassemble give it all a good clean and then use plenty of copper grease in the splines to prevent this in the future.