Could just be Me, but I couldn't see Myself in a million Years letting a car like that roll out of the shop, I mean WTF?!
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?
As for the 'wrong clocking'... as, they installed the bars 'one flat' off... think about how much angle one flat is to the next one...: it's a 60 degree angle!
IMO there's no way you can 'mis-clock' a (thicker) torsion bar and still get the LCA/suspension bolted together again.
If the PST bars have a 20° twist for each L and R bar, then it's way more likely the bars have been switched left to right.
There’s a really good chance that shop has no idea what they’re doing. Make sure they confirm they installed them on the correct sides first, the new PST bars are marked left and right because they have a 20* index.
Second, it should be easier to install them the way they need to be. LCA’s should be roughly parallel to the ground at time of install for those bars. Not all the way down like described in the factory manual. If it comes down to it, lift the LCA’s higher to install the bars. Worst case then is you’ll need to run the adjusters all the way in to get it up to ride height. But really there should only be two possible installation possibilities, one of two hex flats. You want them to use the flat that places the LCA higher during installation.
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And I assume you know that you need an alignment after all of this, because you do.
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Son of a *****!!!! Glad I found this post to confirm that something was a little jacked when I installed my new PST bars. I followed the FSM for torsion bar install. Front end is wayyyy up. Like the torsion bars were on roids. Thankfully, easy fix on the lift with the right torsion bar removal tool. Whew!! Was scratching my head before seeing this. Thx again FABO.