5 for November 3, 2000

Serious Safety Issue with Safari AWD Van

GMC

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Date: Thursday, November 02, 2000 01:16 AM

I think they are feeding you full of crap! I have a 1963 plymouth fury and a 1969 dodge charger that are all original including the torsion bar front ends.

The fury has over 500,000 miles on it and the charger is not far behind.

Both of which have 383 big blocks that more than triple the weight on the torsion bars over your Safari.

There is no way that torsion bar should ever break unless you jump it over a cliff.

If you still have the old torsion bar I would send it off to a lab and have the metal checked for hardness and for tensile strength. There is absolutley, positivaly no way this should ever break due to mileage.

I have been a mechanic all of my life and seen hundreds of torsion bar set-ups on all kinds of cars and I have never heard of a torsion bar breaking unless involved in a serious wreck or like stated above jumping it off of a cliff.

I think that GM is just trying to dodge the bullet in a million dollar law suit.