STORM POOPER; 2007 AWD chevy express

[real3175]

Looking good, thanks for the update!

 

[Slapmackie]

Cabinet/faucet/sink is now installed, plus a little something for my dag!

 

[Accrete]

coming along nicely!
No dog in our family...but if we did? We'd incorporate your cool dog bowl slide out for sure : )
Thom

 

[Slapmackie]

coming along nicely!
No dog in our family...but if we did? We'd incorporate your cool dog bowl slide out for sure : )
Thom

That's awesome, thanks you! A friend of mine has something similar in her build so I totally stole the idea from her. Works like a charm though, Brena loves it!

 

[R1ck]

Whelp, ran into a problem with the lift. The torsion bar is rusted to the key and will not break loose, straight up rust fusion! A friend of mine and I tried for hours the other day with no luck. Ended up taking it to a local 4x4 shop and after an hour they gave up. I guess I'll need to order a new crossmember so I can cut the old one off in order to install the Traxda keys. Frustrating! I did install the new wheels/tires and just cranked the torsion bar all the way up so I can turn the front wheel with out it rubbing, looks pretty good but I really don't like driving around like that. Hope to have this remedied soon. Here are a few pics of the new set up.
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I had the same problem, I ended up taking it to an alignment shop they used an air hammer and had it out in no time. They have seen and done a lot of leveling.

 

[45Kevin]

You are not the first one to have that problem for sure.

A number of us have resorted to drilling and splitting the old keys.

See my results in my thread.

Marooned in Paradise - Another Express AWD

I had a hell of a time getting my torsion bars loose too. I tried everything you did, soaking, heat, air chisel, nada. Two things finally did the trick...first I used the oem jack to brace the crossmember the keys are in against something solid in front of it to keep the rubber cross member...

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