Passenger Side Torsion Bar Too Long

72bluNblu said
Ah gotcha. Just wanted to make sure that was clear.

There was at least one other case on here of a torsion bar actually being too long, the forgings on these things were not always cut the same way on the hex ends. With the small difference in length that shouldn't be the cause, but it is something else to consider. But typically you can push the torsion bars a good 1/4" or more past the spring clip retainers before they bottom out, so the bar length doesn't have to be perfect.

A couple of pictures from my cars, you can see there's a good distance between the clip and the end of the bar. So if the clip won't go in it's not off by a little bit, it's off by over a 1/4" at least.

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I read this thread then grabbed mine off the shelf to clean yesterday wow mines the opposite the left side is over .200 to long. I won't know if this is going to be a problem yet until I start putting it back together and the reason why is because I did not have the Spring clips in place there was 2 Cotter pins hanging from 2 holes at the end of the frame where bars go through. I know there was lots of work done to this Car because when I bought it in 2012 it was a slant 6 car with a slant 6 K member And after looking at my vin numbers realizing that this car was actually a 273 v8 car from the factory .
No real question here just thought id share.