Oz manufacturer of torsion bars?

[Leprechaun]

G-days
I'm after some custom torsion bars. I've read on the forum a mention that there is only a couple of manufacturers of torsions in Oz. Does anyone know who they are?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Dave]

Cant tell you Jase.

Heard it many times.

Peter Aawen on Yotamonthly would probably know.

You bought yourself a D22 didn't you.

 

[RustyNav09]

Lil confused even though I would also like to know of Aus manufacturers. But don't you have a patrol Lep?

 

[Leprechaun]

Trying to find some torsion bars for a offroad buggy.

 

[gazza414]

you'll be lucky mate

 

[Leprechaun]

you'll be lucky mate

So there are no torsion bar manufacturers in Australia?

 

[isiman]

Isn't dobinsons in rocky one of the few?

 

[Ridgie]

Lep - what the hell are you doing now? You can't turn the Jeep into an off-road buggy!

Make them yourself you lazy bastard.

 

[Dion]

Make them yourself you lazy bastard.

Exactly. I'm sure there's a spline cutter hidden away somewhere in that shed.

 

[gazza414]

Isn't dobinsons in rocky one of the few?

My understanding is that they are suppliers---rebadged

There is alot of tooling required to make a torsion bar.

and milling the splines isn't preferred.... they are rolled and either broached or post ground

 

[Leprechaun]

Thanks for the reply, Have ordered some from the states. They are for a mates buggy that I get to wheel @ the Portland dunes over Christmas.

And yep I'm part owner of a Deckel, so broaching splines isn't an issue, I've never made torsions though, done heaps of input shafts and axles over the years.

 

[Dave]

Hey Jase.

Since you work for the CSIRO, man made Climate Change.

Load of shit or what ?

Personally I think its natural.

 

[Leprechaun]

Who knows?, but it keeps me in a job.
4 years ago all our projects were on saving water, now its clean energy, in 10 years time it will probably be something like recycling mobile phones into prosthetic limbs.