Torsion bar adjusters sticking way out of control arm?

carcrazyguy said

Starting to go over a few things on the 70 Duster now that I live where I can mess with more than for 20-30 minutes at a time. I started to crawl under the car and noticed the torsion bar adjusters are sticking out of the lower control arm by probably, 2-3 inches? I did not recall ever seeing that on any Mopar before. So I looked at a few other cars and the adjusters are flush or inside the recessed area of the control arm.

The suspension was just rebuilt with a kit from PST.

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The factory adjuster screws are only a little over 3" long. And end is a ball that has no threads. At most they could stick out is about an inch past the end of the lower control arm until they just fall out.

Mine are adjusted way out. I have MP 1.14" T-bars though and the car is very low. I've seen some car that are even lower with even bigger T-bars that sat right on the adjuster nuts without the adjuster screw even needed.

I doesn't hurt anything where they are adjusted. I guess you could worry about them catching a rock or something by sticking out past the lower control arm, but they are not lower than the K-member.