how do you crank the torsion bars?

[HummBebe]

I just got back from my morning adventures at the dealership diagnosing the noise issue.

The shop foreman took a drive with me and heard the sound I had been trying to describe. Put it up on the rack, while I'm enjoying my cup of coffee in the waiting area, he comes over and says, " would you like to come back and see what is going on with your truck?"

My heart sank......I was trying to be stong. We walked back into the shop and there was the patient, Bebe Rhino lifted way up in the air.

He walked me over to the her, said "watch you head" as he lead me underneath the truck, then asked me to turn around and to first look at the gas tank cover....it was pretty flat. As in smashed.

Then he asked me to look at the cross member...it was bent.

He then showed me the UCP and how it was bolted on. In front, where it is bolted on the the second skid plate you could see how it was higher on the drivers side. The second skid plate is also smashed

In installing the UCP they had a difficult time getting it on, because everything was out of whack. But they installed it anyway.

Apparently the noise was the second skid plate binding, and causing a rattle when I hit a bump.

So they took the UCP back off, and with cro-bars and pry bars, got everything as unsmashed as they could, reinstalled the UCP and guess what.....no noise!!!

Or at least it is much better and less severe than it was. They said if I want it to totally go away, they would need to replace the bent crossmember.

So the moral of the story???

The torsion bar tweak had nothing to do with it.....and.......

I blame it all on Sewie