2500 Avalanche/GM product Leveling kit

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11-09-2015, 09:47 AM

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Unlike a garage door spring the vehicle went up with the same resistance unless you keep on cranking and top it out ?

11-09-2015, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by ezstriper

really...try this one last time...each end of the bar has a hex, one fits into control arm, the other into the key, when you tighten the adjuster bolt you twist the the bar, the more you tighten, more twist, more spring rate as you push the control arm the oppisite way from the adjuster key

The bar doesn't twist, it rotates. The front of the bar will rotate the exact amount as the rear. The bar is not loaded any more than it was. You would have to add weight to the front of the truck to load it more, or completely top out the suspension and keep cranking.

11-10-2015, 07:12 AM

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Ok, watch this, shows exactly how it works...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huWNurDnGB8

11-10-2015, 07:40 AM

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WTF did we not cover over and above that video? Did you even bother to read what me and snap wrote? I have installed 4 lift kits on GM torsion bar system trucks...that video does nothing but dumb down what we were saying in the first place.

11-10-2015, 09:32 AM

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The reason that the GM trucks ride rough after you crank the piss(or install keys) out of the torsion bars has nothing to do with loading the bars more. They ride rough because the control arms are no longer level and now you have to overcome the steep downward angle before they start to move. Rotating a torsion bar is not a viable way to lift the front of the truck.