Alright, i need some help. Was on convinced to cut out my bus torsion. Finally got a car torsion and stripped it down to the torsion housing/ spring plates. I even cut off the 2 pieces that slides under the tranny. I have a good tube piece of my buggy and am just going to cut that off and reuse it on the new torsion. Alright well then i cut that off the mounts came with it. Oops my bad. Well my excuse is that they were junk anyhow. So i have an new set of hangers comming from a local guy, he said they are alot stronger and designed for offroad. Okay now before i go fuc*in up my frame and the old torsion can anyone explain what to do? I get the idea of trying to be light on the torch. I don't want to cut up my frame nor the torsion. Any tips or anything?

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You could always take ALOT of time and grind the weld out.the bus housing is wider and if your frame is made all the way out to the edge of the housing you may have to narrow the frame rails to fit the car torsion.why you set on changing the housing out? Chad

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Because the bus torsion is +2 inches. It wouldn't matter if i was just riding trails and hillclimbing but since im racing its going to put me into modified. And i need to check that before i do anything, otherwise i may be in trouble. I might have to extend it in if he went flange to flange without any wiggle room .

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the best way is going to be to torch the old torsion around the tubes then grind whats left off the tubes.

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This is the easiest way to do it since your not going to use the bus housing again anyways.Chad

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Alright i see what your saying, Is there any easy way to not mess up the housing or where the frame connects?

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Grinder,or if your good with a torch you can get it with out cutting to much but a straight cold cut with a saws all would be easier and neater or a cut off wheel.you are not going to lose but 1/4 inch or less of frame. Chad

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you could cut the tubes and redo them by "slugging' them with a smaller tube in the middle. ive done this several times reclipping wrecked frames its easy and stronger than the original. if you want to try this ill try to explain slugging to you.

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I think i understand what your saying hp. But im not going to go that route, i think im just going to get it nice and straight with the torch. And if i see its going a little too wide im just going to cut it with the cutoff wheel. We have a plasma in school but its not as easy to work with in small spaces in a torch. How do you know what angle to put it in at?

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before you do anything take lots and lots of measurements OR get yourself a plumbbob and make marks on your floor be careful not to move your frame after making your marks. before you make your final welds plumbbob the new torsion to make sure it lines up. you do know what a plumbbob is right?

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Okay, will do. Just to make sure everything is aligned properly and i see why. If its even the slightest bit twisted im going to have a fun time later down the road when my axles don't align perfect with my tranny/cv's.

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where u gonna be racing?

http://lm4w.org/

First race is Rausch Creek
The rest are in West Cameron. (3 miles from my house)

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I've been well hated on this subject b4,but in 2001 I took a Dewalt high speed grinder and reduced my bus torsion down about an 1/8th "(1/16th on each side) and it is still carrring my heavy Buick V6 today.Soft and smoooooooth. Don't leave any drop off edges because that will be it's weakest link.The skinniest point will be it's breaking point if it does.Make it like a loooooong hour glass shape.Just go on and make some 14" baby chains like I did.I've been around in buggies since 1971. Listen to me...Shave around it and then spray paint it so you will know where you left off then do it again.And again ... and again about 19 times.lol use a micrometer caliper from Lowe's the are battery digital and cost $21. Mash a button and they convert from mm. to fractions to thousandths. They are NICE!

It was pretty easy, i just cut the old tubes leading to the old torsion and cut them off father back and put a piece of tube inside them and the same diameter tube over that and just notched it. Had 10 tubes to do and it came out pretty darn good. I seriously did not think i could do it. Now i just gota figure out my tranny pan.

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