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Thumbs down Torsion Bar Housing Installation Woes

The time has come to reinstall the torsion bar housing in my 88 944 NA and I am having a really hard time getting it in there. I was able to get the housing into the slots behind the doors, but I can't get the mounts at the top of the wheel wells for the banana arms to line up. The ends of the banana arms extend past the mounts and won't fit down inside the slots Anyone have any advice? I'll try to get pictures of what I'm talking about tonight.

Also, I installed new bushings for the spring plates and I cannot move them at all. I will need to turn them down a little bit to get the rear trailing arms in, but they won't budge. I do not have torsion bars installed, so I assume they should be able to move up/down freely. Are they supposed to be this tight?

Thanks,
Jeff

Edit- Here's some pictures of what I'm talking about. In the first picture you can see that I finally got the banana arm to fit down inside the slot in the mount. The second picture shows that the hole in the mount doesn't line up with the hole in the body with the banana arm in the slot. I am completely out of ideas for getting this thing back in there... If I trim the ends of the banana arms I might be able to get the mount to line up, but I don't want to ghetto rig it or anything...



Last edited by Chunkerz; 10-19-2014 at 04:51 PM..
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