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Any safety tips on taking apart my 62 torsion bar front end? I want to put disk brake drop spindles on it and turn the adjusters a little bit to even it out with some Buick rear coils for a smoother ride. What about preload? Thanks.

I Dont think you would have to take apart the torsion bars, just to swap the spindles.

I've had my '61 torn down to the spindles for inspection, and brake rebuild, but never actually removed them, but couldnt see anything out of the ordinary.

Are you saying you're adding coil springs to the front, along with the torsion bars? I'd like to see that setup if you got any pics.

If you're removing the torsion bars or separating the lower ball joint, the factory service manual states that you should turn the adjusting screws on the torsion bars to relax the pressure. Without the book in front of me, I don't recall the exact details, but you could probably loosen them a fixed number of turns, then retighten them the same when you're finished.

Brian

The Buick coils are to drop the rear to match the front drop. I also want to take stuff apart to clean and detail since this truck sat for the last 10 years.