Beam lowering

1. Tink170292 Frequent Poster Joined: Mar 2010 birmingham Posts: 558 citroen saxo 1.4 furio seat leon

   #1 18th March 2013, 22:56

   I know by now people must be fed up of seeing threads about this but just seeking peoples opinions.
   Ive started to attempt lowering my beam and have all the bolts loose but the torsion bar is solid i keep putting wd40 on it but still nothing. I was thinking about getting the gas bottles on it but wondered if theres any easier ways that people have done them before
   Cheers
2. Bedford126 Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Jul 2010 Morley, Leeds Posts: 8469 Civic ep3 type r powered by TDI NORTH

   #2 18th March 2013, 23:02

   Quote:

   Originally Posted by Tink170292 I know by now people must be fed up of seeing threads about this but just seeking peoples opinions. Ive started to attempt lowering my beam and have all the bolts loose but the torsion bar is solid i keep putting wd40 on it but still nothing. I was thinking about getting the gas bottles on it but wondered if theres any easier ways that people have done them before Cheers

   Have you removed the eccentric washers mate?
   
   Also never use heat on torsion bars. Get yourself a old torsion bar and cut it in half and use that and a huge hammer to get the bars out. Personally i have never used wd40 on lowering a rear beam.
3. user_46658 Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Aug 2010 Little Mill, South Wales Posts: 7547 Mondeo ST TDCI Saxo VTS

   #3 18th March 2013, 23:02

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   Originally Posted by Bedford126 Have you removed the eccentric washers mate? Also never use heat on torsion bars. Get yourself a old torsion bar and cut it in half and use that and a huge hammer to get the bars out. Personally i have never used wd40 on lowering a rear beam.

   Bro do you even lift?
4. Tink170292 Frequent Poster Joined: Mar 2010 birmingham Posts: 558 citroen saxo 1.4 furio seat leon

   #4 18th March 2013, 23:16

   How are you supposed to get those washers out?
5. Bedford126 Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Jul 2010 Morley, Leeds Posts: 8469 Civic ep3 type r powered by TDI NORTH

   #5 18th March 2013, 23:22

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   Originally Posted by Brettles1986 Bro do you even lift?

   What the fuck are you on about?
   
   To get the washers out i tap them with a hammer and a drift then once they are central in the hole use a small pick to tease them out.

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6. user_46658 Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Aug 2010 Little Mill, South Wales Posts: 7547 Mondeo ST TDCI Saxo VTS

   #6 18th March 2013, 23:28

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   Originally Posted by Bedford126 What the fuck are you on about? To get the washers out i tap them with a hammer and a drift then once they are central in the hole use a small pick to tease them out.

   You implied you use brute strength so I was attempting to mock you
7. Bedford126 Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Jul 2010 Morley, Leeds Posts: 8469 Civic ep3 type r powered by TDI NORTH

   #7 18th March 2013, 23:34

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   Originally Posted by Brettles1986 You implied you use brute strength so I was attempting to mock you

   You failed. Even though Wales won the rugby...... Cnut.
   
   But yeah you gotta use force to do the bars heat isn't a option and wd40 doesn't really help.
8. saxoman1610 Infrequent Poster Joined: Feb 2013 SUFFOLK Posts: 242 Saxo westcoast 1.4

   #8 18th March 2013, 23:45

   a bolt that is correct thread and a slide hammer
9. Bedford126 Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Jul 2010 Morley, Leeds Posts: 8469 Civic ep3 type r powered by TDI NORTH

   #9 18th March 2013, 23:47

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   Originally Posted by saxoman1610 a bolt that is correct thread and a slide hammer

   Yeah can tell you have lowered loads of saxo's mate.
   
   Try it this way and let us know how you get on when the m8 bolt snaps in the end of the bar.
10. saxoman1610 Infrequent Poster Joined: Feb 2013 SUFFOLK Posts: 242 Saxo westcoast 1.4

    #10 18th March 2013, 23:54

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    Originally Posted by Bedford126 Yeah can tell you have lowered loads of saxo's mate. Try it this way and let us know how you get on when the m8 bolt snaps in the end of the bar.

    but its another option on how to get a torsion bar out am i right?
    im not no cleaver dick, im giving this bloke another option, its more safer then hammering a old torsion bar in? got to make sure its hammering the same way the thread is or you will f**k the thread,
    
    plus how do you know i might have lowered cars? you dont know me? i was gonna offer you £35 for your rocker cover but f**k you, i dont know why im arguing with you, ide rather drive my saxo then come on here and finger bang my keyboard everynight trying to be the dogs bolloks
11. Bedford126 Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Jul 2010 Morley, Leeds Posts: 8469 Civic ep3 type r powered by TDI NORTH

    #11 18th March 2013, 23:57

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    Originally Posted by saxoman1610 ide rather drive my saxo then come on here and finger bang my keyboard everynight trying to be the dogs bolloks

    But that's the difference I know I am the dogs bollocks.
    
    Also keep your £35 quid mate.
    
    And any one who suggests a slide hammer and a bolt to remove a torsion bar has never lowered a saxo.

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12. D4NNY-801 Infrequent Poster Joined: Feb 2013 Posts: 165 Saxo VTR

    #12 19th March 2013, 07:24

    Ive lowered a few with slide hammer and the socket method
13. Wakemonkey Newbie Joined: Mar 2013 Aylesbury Buckinghamshire Posts: 1 Saxo 1.1 is my current project, previous cars have

    #13 19th March 2013, 11:15

    Does anyone live in Buckinghamshire willing to lower my torsion bar? Paid of course!
14. user_46658 Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Aug 2010 Little Mill, South Wales Posts: 7547 Mondeo ST TDCI Saxo VTS

    #14 19th March 2013, 11:18

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    Originally Posted by saxoman1610 but its another option on how to get a torsion bar out am i right? im not no cleaver dick, im giving this bloke another option, its more safer then hammering a old torsion bar in? got to make sure its hammering the same way the thread is or you will f**k the thread, plus how do you know i might have lowered cars? you dont know me? i was gonna offer you £35 for your rocker cover but f**k you, i dont know why im arguing with you, ide rather drive my saxo then come on here and finger bang my keyboard everynight trying to be the dogs bolloks

    WOW someone's got their arse in their hand.
15. saxoman1610 Infrequent Poster Joined: Feb 2013 SUFFOLK Posts: 242 Saxo westcoast 1.4

    #15 19th March 2013, 17:56

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    Originally Posted by D4NNY-801 Ive lowered a few with slide hammer and the socket method

    see thankyou, ive never lowered a saxo but iver read so many guides, i only rembered it so i suggested it, dont know why so many people crititsize
16. Bedford126 Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Jul 2010 Morley, Leeds Posts: 8469 Civic ep3 type r powered by TDI NORTH

    #16 19th March 2013, 18:02

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    Originally Posted by saxoman1610 see thankyou, ive never lowered a saxo but iver read so many guides, i only rembered it so i suggested it, dont know why so many people crititsize

    Because the bolt snaps in the end of the beam and fucks the bar up. Nothing wrong with twatting the beam out.
    
    P.s still a bell end.
17. user_39461 Super Moderator Joined: Nov 2009 Cambridge(ish), UK. Posts: 10581 BMW 5x M50d.

    #17 19th March 2013, 18:12

    Gentlemen