[enine]

Originally Posted by MikeyTruck

WOW! Strike 3...I'm Out. HA HA HA me and 2 buddys gave it a go again for the 3rd time to no avail....We unbolted everything again, Used two torches, one on each side of the driverside lower A-arm, a come-a-long on the crossmember, and a 3 pound sledge with an extension bar to the front of the torsion bar bar.....and Nuthin....Then we did the same thing with an A.T.V winch....Then we did the same thing with a chain to my buddys ball hitch on his ZR2 and Tugged on it till it almost fell off the jackstands......AND THE NEW YORK RUST STILL WON!!! that torsion bar prettymuch welded itself to the lower a arm and the keys. AND I hit all contact points with PB Blaster and WD-40 alternating days for a week before the last go-around......Ill never buy a truck from the coast EVER again....I finally Gave up and Got a quote from GCR tire for the labor....I hate giving up but I tried everything I could and even tried unsafe methods which is dumb......."Hosed Tommy....We got Hosed."

The very first post in this tread with the picture of the lifted truck the cross member with the keys is relocated so since that cross member is removable why not unbolt it and pull it rearward off the back ends of the torsion bars rather than push them forward.

I wonder are the gm keys cast or machined? If they are machined it would be easy to pull them and weld a thin plate where the bolt hits to re-index them. You just might be able to weld it through the hole in the crossmember if you still can't get them removed.