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Technical => 116 Series (Alfetta Sedan/GT/GTV & Giulietta Sedan) => Topic started by: VeeSix on June 14, 2012, 11:46:43 PM

Title: Over and out!!!!!
Post by: VeeSix on June 14, 2012, 11:46:43 PM
Over and out  ;D !!!!!
Title: Re: Over and out!!!!!
Post by: Tristan Atkins on June 15, 2012, 10:51:20 AM
Guess that's what happens when you have a torsion bar fail?
Title: Re: Over and out!!!!!
Post by: Anthony Miller on June 15, 2012, 12:21:20 PM
Well spotted, rear mount looks totally destroyed,hard to tell if TB failure was cause or result, check out the sizeable ding under the open door....ouch
Title: Re: Over and out!!!!!
Post by: Neil Choi on June 15, 2012, 12:33:25 PM
Looks like (s)he has gone sideways and caught something protruding which hit the sill and ripped out torsion bar via destroying rear mount etc.  Door not damaged ie bent.  But then just conjecture.

Neil
Title: Re: Over and out!!!!!
Post by: joestram on June 15, 2012, 03:04:38 PM
Can a torsion bar failure actually happen and cause something like this?
Title: Re: Over and out!!!!!
Post by: alfa duk on June 15, 2012, 05:08:32 PM
 Don't know if rear mount is totally destroyed, that car is a late model 85-86 which has no torsion bar bridge like most of us have but is mounted into the crossmember. This model is what the short bars are for, long bars are used with suspension bridges. Just wanting to point out the difference as most have not seen this setup.
Title: Re: Over and out!!!!!
Post by: aggie57 on June 15, 2012, 05:12:46 PM
Duk - its the same as every 75, every 90 and every GTV6 built after October 1984......pretty common.
Title: Re: Over and out!!!!!
Post by: Storm_X on June 15, 2012, 05:14:31 PM
Looks like to me it has gone side ways into the tree that is laying down next to it, also you can see the tree damage to the sill panel and half way under the car.
Title: Re: Over and out!!!!!
Post by: alfa duk on June 15, 2012, 05:36:33 PM
 Al, yes i agree that it is pretty common but when i wrote off my 85 gtv6 and was explaining how the rear TB mounting was in the crossmember, none know what i was on about as all they knew was the bridge arrangement.
Title: Re: Over and out!!!!!
Post by: aggie57 on June 15, 2012, 06:47:07 PM
Quote from: alfa duk on June 15, 2012, 05:36:33 PM
Al, yes i agree that it is pretty common but when i wrote off my 85 gtv6 and was explaining how the rear TB mounting was in the crossmember, none know what i was on about as all they knew was the bridge arrangement.

Fair enough.