I recently got my 68 back from the painter and he had installed the torsion bars on the wrong sides so that the lid had the famous droop.
I reinstalled them correctly using the procedure in TCCN. It is a good procedure except that I couldn't get them into place with a pair of vice grips as called for in the article (lots of loud banging as the tool kept slipping off). I finally made a useful (and cheap) tool that may help someone.
I bought a 10 inch mending plate from the hardware store for $1.50. I ground a small groove near one end to hold the long dimension, then drilled a hole for the short end. This gives plenty of leverage and then just used a mallet to pop it into the groove. It worked perfectly the first time.
I will try to attach pictures.
I reinstalled them correctly using the procedure in TCCN. It is a good procedure except that I couldn't get them into place with a pair of vice grips as called for in the article (lots of loud banging as the tool kept slipping off). I finally made a useful (and cheap) tool that may help someone.
I bought a 10 inch mending plate from the hardware store for $1.50. I ground a small groove near one end to hold the long dimension, then drilled a hole for the short end. This gives plenty of leverage and then just used a mallet to pop it into the groove. It worked perfectly the first time.
I will try to attach pictures.
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