krystar

how do u get tbar out? it doesn't pull....

ideola

t-bar out of what? the torsion carrier or the spring plate? There are splines on both ends, you gotta give that sucker a couple of good yanks.

There, queued somebody up for a really bad off-color joke.

drift a 944

Yes, give it a couple of good yanks it and should all come shooting right out of the tube.

krystar

out of the spring plate. can i hammer on the end of the spring plate tube? it's REALLY not budging. i've tried to wack the spring plate against the workbench sideways and nothing.

Cass944

i cant wait to do this myself...

krystar

so far it isn't that bad. def not as bad as "drop the whole rear suspension" made it out to be hehe.

ideola

Yes, you can smack the snot out of the spring plate to get it off. Use a BFH.

krystar

yes! approval to use BFH! awesome heheh

krystar

seriuosly WTF am i missing? BFH'ed on the end of the spring plate cap to try to PUSH the tbar out. nothing. tapped a punch thru the cap and BFHed on the punch. NOTHING.

is there that much RUST between the tbar splines and the spring plate splines?

krystar

i took the other side off also. it's same thing....BFH no workie. i can't hammer it "out'

ideola

Do you have a bench vice?

krystar

yea. i had it on there.

tried gripping by the bar and hammering the plate....no go.

Eric_Oz_S2

Was there grease on the other end? They should be greased for this reason - my 89S2 still had loads of grease on the ends when I removed them. If there is no evidence of grease on the free end, then it is likely the tbar has been fused to the spring cap. All I can suggest is gently heating the cap end up, or use a slide hammer.

krystar

no there wasn't how would u even slide hammer it...nothing to hold onto

Potomac-Greg

The mythical "time machine" solution! Go back to West Germany in the mid 1980s (you or send a robot) and grease those splines!


Sounds like rust. Maybe heat the end cap and cool the bar? If all fails, I have a set of spring plates that I've promised to another guy. I can ask him if he pities you enough to let me send them to you.