Trying to work out what the porpose of the welded in 'dog ears' on the torque tube, what do they actually do? Some cars have the rear only, some have front and rear (ie: either side of the t-bar housing).



TIA, Mike

 

If you look at the mounting system for the drive line, I think the tabs butt up against the torsion tube to keep the trans and torque tube from moving to forward under braking and stressing the motor mounts.

Of course I could be completely wrong.

 

Minimizes collision damage.

 

I'm going with in case of a bad rear end collision, they help keep the trans in the back of the car, and not in the back of your seat

Tom

 

I type too slow

 

+1.

 

I see, a crash safety thing. So, the ones at the rear would be the only ones in play during a rear end collision. I have noticed that some cars do not have the forward ones, so I take it that they did nothing.

 

I thought they were put there to pinch/crush the fingers of us DIY'ers.

 

Been there, done that.

 

+2 fingers here!

 

I was gonna go with the "to make removing the torsion bar carrier 10x more difficult" defense....

 

To make a clutch job that much more difficult.

 

If ya know the spin trick ,it is a piece of cake. OR you could do what the PO of my NA tried to do..

 

Did he TRY to cut them off??????
Lolz

 

My '84 doesn't have those, and my '85 didn't either...