Just asking here. I just put PST 1.03 bars in my 71 Scamp and had the adjusters all the way out and the car is still raised. Your saying the control arms should have been raised with no weight on it?
No. The LCA’s should still hang on the upper bump stops when there’s no weight and the adjusting bolts should still be contacting the adjuster lever at that point.
But, during installation you should install the bars into the hex ends of the LCA with the LCA at no lower than about a 45* angle. If the torsion bar hex doesn’t line up at that point, you should lift the LCA until the flats line up, rather than force the LCA lower or slide it out of the K frame so it can hang down lower.
The procedure in the factory manual calls for the LCA to hang down as far as it will go during installation of the torsion bars. But with larger torsion bars, and bars with different amounts of indexing (ie, not the factory index), that’s not always the case. You have to pay attention to the clocking, because larger bars will twist much less, so you often want to install them with the LCA close to the location you want it to be at ride height. And obviously you want to make sure the torsion bar adjusting lever/socket is where it needs to be with the adjuster, because with the adjusters out you could have the lever/socket clocked incorrectly even with the LCA in the right position.
