torsion bar issue?

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hey rmchrgr no need for apologies at all , thanks for the info , its greatly appreciated. What it comes down to that i bought a car that was very broken i was 25 didnt really know that much but wanted a a body mopar. and thats where i mad the mistake. stuff was butchered and repaired wrong. Im paying for it now. The car is at my buddy's shop and he is a certified welder that knows what he is doing. When i was replacing the front suspension i did not notice that the rear crossmemeber was so messed up, so thats where i made the mistake. Again im paying for it. I was about to start looking for the crossmemebr but figured i would try fixing this first. Also the other problem is i think i live in a state where no shop knows what a mopar torsion bar suspension is haha, ive been to a couple shops and when i started to talk about how it works they really didn't know what was up. So i figured lets try fixing it first by ourselves and see where that takes us, if not im screwed and its coil-overs or finding some shop that actually knows whats up.

Well, sounds like you understand the car is in need of some serious repairs and it's good that you took it to someone who 'knows what they are doing'. It's also somewhat lucky that you have someone willing to take the job on. Bet most shops wouldn't even touch it or would want big money to do it. It's no small job.

A torsion bar suspension system should not be a mystery to anyone in the automotive field with half a brain, there are plenty of vehicles (mostly trucks these days) that have t-bar suspensions. A torsion bar is just a spring. Most people think of a spring only as a coil but that's incorrect. The action of a torsion bar is to twist but it still supports the weight of the car and does the same job a coil spring does. The t bar design was excellent and Mopar employed it for a long time without much design change. Again, hard to imagine a t-bar front end is a mystery to anyone.

I also think everyone would be in agreement here that you should not be afraid to ask questions before you jump into something like this again, we're usually tripping over ourselves to help.

We all have done uninformed things, myself included. But again, PLEASE - fix that cross member CORRECTLY (whole thing) before you do anything else. Stop messing around with trying to clock it.