Torsion bar adjuster bolt length question

72bluNblu said

These cars are not perfect. Remember also that the way that height is adjusted on these cars means that if the car is weighted unevenly the adjusters will end up in different places to put the car at the same height. So if your car isn't perfectly balanced, and very few of them are, then you'll end up with different adjuster settings. So having different adjuster settings is probably more common than having them be exactly the same.

A 1/2" is kind of a large amount though. Do you have SS springs on the car? If you do, you're probably compensating for the difference in the SS springs to level the front of the car.

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if the car is weighted unevenly the adjusters will end up in different places to put the car at the same height.

the un equal height of the adjuster bolts occurs with the adjusters being turned in an equal number of turns to finger tight. The unequal adjustor bolt height is still present after the ride height is set.
I'll pull them back out and count the number of turns from when the threads engage to finger tight.

I have ESPO 1 inch + springs in the rear. Interesting I did not have this un evenness in the adjuster bolts, prior to now. I removed the complete front suspension and K frame. I seam welded the K and installed one of PST's K Frame brace kits and I welded in a USCT front frame rail connector. The torsion bars and all suspension components were re installed. It is after the second install that I noticed the un even adjustor bolt length.