Cant remove torsion bars...

[Splatmaster527]

So I am in the process of trying to add Ford Keys to my yukon and I cant seem to get my torsion bars to budge at all... I have tired everything to get them to move forward or backward at all and they seem rusted totally in place...
I am at the point of cutting them out and buying new ones anything else I can do??

 

[mharders]

Spray them with PB blaster and let them soak over night. Mine where pretty suck and I just hammered away on the key. If you cant get it to move, use a hammer on the LCA end and push it through the key then try pulling it back out.

 

[Splatmaster527]

Its been soaked in PB Blaster for a whole day and we had a bar and 8lb sledge hammer hitting on the LCA end and it wouldnt even budge...
I feel like even if I cut it out I wont be able to pound it out to get a new bar in...

 

[LOUDHOE]

Are you unloading the T-bar before you try to get it out?

 

[ILLEGAL REGAL]

use a torch and heat up the section of the a-arm and heat the key and beat away.

 

[Splatmaster527]

I ended up just cutting the cross brace so I could pull it off then cut the keys off and welded the cross brace back on once I had the new keys...
Not the best way to do it but a hell of a lot better than buying new T bars and LCAs

 

[ILLEGAL REGAL]

You cut the crossmember? There's just 2 bolts that hold it in

 

[Splatmaster527]

Yeah I had the bolts cut but since the bar goes through a hole in the crossmember I couldnt get the key off with the crossmemer on so I just cut a notch for the one bar to go through and it came right off then I was able to get a grinder and 8lb sledge at it to knock the keys off

I know cutting the crossmember sounds a lot worse than it was...
I cut a small notch for the bar to go through then welded it back its not like i chopped it all off in ten pieces and such