I am currently in the process of lowering my gti 6. Everything has went fine except the obvious problem of removing the torsion bars. As my 6 is a '98 phase2 the torsion bars seem to be siezed at both of the splined ends. I have tried various sizes of sliding hammers but they wont move, someone memtioned to me 'some heat' might help but i'm worried of causing damage to the bearings, seals ect. is this the case?

Any help or advice would be much appreciated, thanks.

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PH2 NILE BLUE GTI 6

It may be easier to strip the beam off the car so you can press the bars out. Whilst you are there you may as well fit new seals if the bearings are in good order.

Carl

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both ends will probably be seized making it extremely hard to get arms off, use a porta power to removed arms then a press to get bars out of arms as they are usually stuck hard in the arms

Job done. Lowered 40mm on Spax springs

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PH2 NILE BLUE GTI 6

To allow torsion bars to come out time afer time use CS90 copper grease and some silicon on the retaining offset washer and around the torsion bar where it goes into the trailing arm assembly.