Brake conversion. Lower control arm swap?

There’s no need for that. Pull the torsion bar clips, then remove the shock and break the LCA free of the spindle at the lower ball joint, then unbolt the strut rod and undo the LCA pivot nut. With that done you can use the LCA as a lever to push the torsion bar back and out. If they’re really stuck you can use a pry bar between the LCA and K frame, or a dead blow hammer so as not to damage the LCA. Super easy, no special tool required, and no chance of damaging the surface of the bar. It sounds like a lot, but if you’re rebuilding the suspension it all has to come out anyway. And even if you’re not, most of it has to come off to reinstall the torsion bars anyway.


I’m probably going to install the bars before the swap. I still need some parts and the car is leaning towards the passenger side with a weak bar. So the tool is needed for this. Once all the parts are acquired I’ll do a complete front end. Will use a fare bit of grease so they slide out when the the time comes to do the brake swap. Hopefully by mid June :-)