71 911 t

[Baxter2422]

I am rebuilding this car but this is not a question about the engine it is the rear suspension. I have the radius arm covers off and I am looking at a bushing. How do I get the radius arm off the torsion bar? Is there a puller, is it suppose to just slip off, it will not do that trust me. If it is rusted do you just cut it off? If you do that can you get the torsion bar out?
Any suggestion from some one who has been here would be great.
Thanks

[Flieger]

I'd recommend you post here instead: Porsche 911 Technical Forum - Pelican Parts Technical BBS

Once the 4 bolts and the cover are off you just pull. Sometimes rachet straps and posts are needed. But I wouldn't know since my car has not had rubber bushings in the time I have had it. The non-rubber bushings let the plate come off easy as pie.

[Daves911L]

Thats one of those little things thats easy in theory, sometimes hard in execution. It is supposed to slide right out. But your parts may have been getting to know each other for 43 years and may have developed an unnatural affection for each other.

A couple of rocker style prybars usually work to get the springplate to move outwards from the inner bushing. Wobble and worry the springplate as you pry. It will move. If you are lucky, it will come off and the torsion bar will stay in the body.

If you are unlucky (like me, usually) the torsion bar will come out of the body attached to the springplate. Then you are stuck because there is no clearance to withdraw the entire assembly. The solution is to drill a hole (big, at least 1/4 inch) through the center of the springplate hub. You can then prise out the center of the springplate hub. It is just a press fit in there. Then you have access to the torsion bar for penetrating lubricant, a puller, hammer/punch, whatever it takes to get it unstuck.

When finished you can flatten out the center of the springplate hub (you'll bend it when prising it out) and knock it back into place. You could weld up the center hole you drilled if you want, but a rubber plug or gob of tar works just fine

DG