Torsion bar remove tool

RegularJay said

Many years ago I happened on a 340 Duster in a junkyard. I wanted the t-bars for my 340 Duster that had come to me with slant 6 bars. Making do with what was available I hung an 18" pipe wrench off the bar and used a bumper jack wedged against the pipe wrench and rather easily ratcheted the bars out. Please, don't waste your time with alarmist comments about gouging the bars with a pipe wrench - nothing bad happened and I would do it again in a similar situation.

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Torsion bars can and have failed dramatically because of nicks and gouges in the bar. It’s just a fact of their metallurgy and how they carry load.

Just because you got lucky and got away with a bad technique is no reason others should try the same.

Using the control arm method as already described multiple times is by far the easiest way, and no special tools are needed at all.

And when you reinstall the bars, if you make sure the sockets and hex ends are clean and smooth and use a little bit of grease on the ends the bars can usually be removed by hand in the future just by fully unloading them.