Torsion bar adjuster

TNT440

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Need a little guidance. I am putting front suspension back together and I am not sure what the orientation of the torsion bar adjuster should be for installing the torsion bars. The nut holding the lower control arm in is loose, suspension is hanging as low as it will without pulling down on it. I can move the adjuster anywhere I want it but I am not sure where it should be. Some say horizontal but at horizontal it doesn't seem like it would have far to go before the heads of the bolts would go up into the lower control arm. Here is a photo of the nut that is loose and where the adjuster is now. Bar is not full installed, just slightly engaged. Any help would be appreciated.
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I was in your position back in July. I found there was only 1 position where you can clock the torsion bar into the lower control arm to get the proper adjustment range out of the screw. You have to back off the screw completely so that only the rounded top-head is sticking up above the ajuster bar. Then rotate the arm so that it contacts the head and then slide the torsion bar in. This came up somewhere here a couple months ago.
 
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