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Stuart or anyone who can help..
Man I am made with my computer.. Finished writing a nice list of questions when IE just crashed.. Second time hopefully the charm.

From what you are telling me, when I jack the car up by the spring plate, it unloads the torsion bar.. This totally threw me for a loop.. being the not so smart one at the time, and still learning ACVW.. I am confused..

1. Why is it that by lifting or pushing the spring plate up it unloads.. Wouldn't it be better to raise the car and let the spring plates and IRS hang in some relaxed position.. If it were a strut of some sort this would lessen the load.. (obviously bad analogy and i understand that strut springs are still under load.. i.e. spring compressor).

2. Are These torsion bars preloaded in the tube.. If so how.. THis will come into play later when I have to index them..

3. It seems that in order to do the right thing I have to do it wrong, or contary to MY understanding..

4. The above is when it is on the car.. Now the 944 stuff is off the car and in a relaxed position.. based on your comments, this would mean that mine are still preloaded in the tube.. I would have to compress or lift the IRS arm to unload with the tool that I still haven't gotten..

Man i am confused.. Sorry to ask so many questions.. I hope I am not the only that can't figure this out.. But don't mind making a fool in the sake of safety..

Thanks
ALex

PS How big can picture be, I can so you my torsion bar assembly if you'd like.. No Pun intended.. I tried before, just before it crashed but it said my pic was to big.. Only 150Kb, never mind.. Just reread and 87 Kb was right in front of me. Now I have to figure out how to resize.. NUBIE to this darn Digital world..