Attachment 58455
The broken off hex ends of my car's former torsion bars
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Attachment 58455
The broken off hex ends of my car's former torsion bars
Thought this was interesting: I was just watching this Pennebaker documentary and at 30:06 they discussed a torsion rod failure ( presumably in a preproduction car) at 41,000 cycles and JZD asked the right questions including a request for a metallurgist's opinion. The presenter said that Grumman cycled them "into the millions ", which agrees with what was said earlier.
http://youtu.be/sueqDrq9VBw
Plus a worker was filmed installing a bar on a car at 37:57.
I noticed that worker with his breaker bar and it reminded me that human beings at Dunmurry installed those torsion bars in the first place so I can do it too :)
Just finished bolting the roof down and waiting for the sealant to cure. Hopefully in the next few days I will have the torsion bars installed and my D will have working wings again.
Attachment 58681
The double bars blues has been cured! Thanks to everyone who helped