Crazy Torsion bar installation procedure
Hes giving bad advice to others,
Personally id hate to have a torsion bar fail on the road and put my family and others at risk because an idiot on Facebook recommends doing something that dumb.
I don't think you're following me. The load on the torsion bars is gonna be the same, unless he's somehow exceeded the corner weights of the car.
But the corner weight is going to be more than what he can physically put on the LCA's. For example, I have specs for a '71 Duster that weighed in at 2,997 lbs (lighter than stock) and the corner weights on the front of that car were still 750-800 lbs. He's not gonna be able to put that much load on the bars. Which means, when the car sits on it's wheels the suspension will still compress. Which means the only load on the bars is the load it would have had anyway. Not more. Not less. All that's happened is the ride height is gonna be completely jacked.
So unless he's somehow figured out how to put 1,000 lbs of pre-load on the control arms he hasn't done anything. You can't even put that much load on the bars using a jack under the car unless you chain the car to the ground, because you'd have to exceed the weight of the car to do it!
What he's doing is giving impossible to follow advice. I would be willing to bet he hasn't done this, and even if he
THINKS he has it's because he doesn't actually understand what it is that he has done. The only way for him to put more load on the bars than they would normally have, namely the weight of the car plus the additional force from suspension travel, would be to lock out the suspension with over 1,000 lbs of force. I'm pretty sure he hasn't done that. And if he has, well, the load on the torsion bars would be the least of his worries.