What is the process for removing factory torsion keys and replacing them with reindexed keys? Just lift the truck and unbolt them or is there another trick that I need to know? Just wanting to know so I will have everything ready when I get the other keys. Thanks for the help in advance!!

 

Yes it pretty much is lift unbolt remove and replace and tighten it up. At the end of the torsion bar adjuster bolt be carefully the bar may unload and could be dangerous. You can use a Big C-Clamp to help hold it on. For me I didn't need to do that though. Plenty of threads left once the bar was completely loose.

When installing the bolt on the Re-indexed keys the C-Clamp may help.

 

ok thanks man for the info. I will be glad to get them changed out and get my truck up in the air a little more.

 

Whats the chance that, like a spring, the torsion bars can get "saked out" or "lazy" over time? would a new bar have better "torsion?"
Felipe noted that he had plenty of threads left when the bar went loose, is that because your bar could be "worn" and not returning to its origional (designed) form?

 

I believe they are designed and set at the factory with the idea in mind that they will settle over time. I think the FSM refers to it somewhere.

 

Ya I'm sure they get worn through out the years and settle down. Think of leaf springs. They settle down and become flat or concave.

That is why the bars come with adjuster bolts, so you can adjust it back to stock hight.