Bradness.... :p ....this is too easy so I am just going to stop....
The way the struts are placed in the vehicle dictates that the strut towers will flex inward unless the car is jacked from the center of the vehicle...that is an easy one. The strut bar therefore cannot receive inputs in tension unless the bar is too short for the application and it is tightened (pulling the strut towers into each other). If it is installed and the force is directed outwards (force against the brackets, spinning the bar so that it gets longer than the distance between the towers). If compression is applied to the bar and then released: it is not considered as being a tensile pull....just returning the bar to its zero. The bar would have to be pulled...by way of jacking the car up frrom its middle.....I used to do full vehicle road simulation......
