Perkele!

One more gear-puller (of different design) is bent, even more heat applied, torsion-bar repeatedly banged in the center with bar made from rest of Boge-strut (while being heated)... no dice!

What is next?? Take dremel and cut trough whole sheebang? Use two long crowbars and pray that they won't bend metal behind them?

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If it's like what I experienced, you're fighting two things: 1. the t-bar is seized to the spring-plate. If it weren't, the puller would have separated them. 2. the inner bushing is stuck in the body. Prying against the body may work, but I don't think you want to risk bending the sheet metal any more than you already have.

I'll suggest it one more time - a heavy slide-hammer. It will pull the whole thing out of the body without inflicting any more damage to the body. You will then probably have to cut the torsion bar.

We haven't bend the metal at all...at least not yet.

How do you pull it out with slide hammer? Should we drill and thread a hole on the top of torsion bar which slide-hammers top should be bolted to?

It seems that there is no way to save torsion bar at all, but it doesn't matter beacuse 935-style uniball & coilover suspension is in the making!

The slide-hammer I used threaded into the two-armed gear puller, through the t-bar hole in the outer body. I hooked the gear-puller arms over the edges of the spring-plate, on opposite sides of the torsion bar, and wailed away at it. One side was harder than the other, but it finally came out.

I still say you need to LIGHTLY use a crow bar against the spring arm and wiggle the spring arm around. It will come out. Well maybe not since you have now fused the bushing to the body.

that is a depressing looking picture you have there...

Have you put the same effort into both sides? Seems that one of them has got to give with that much abuse.

Did you hammer on the tbar while you had the tension applied with the puller? Put a long rod on the tbar and strike with a hammer while the tension is present. Perhaps the tension and shock together will bust it loose.

You've probably tried this (or it won't work) but can't the tbar be forced out from the center of the car?