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When I bought this Chevelle, I trailered it from
PA, and because of what I had to work with <I guess I wasn't
prepared> I hooked up to the sprung points. Whenever I hit a dip in the road,
the chains would go loose and then bounce back up. Don't want to do that
again.
Larry
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 2:31
PM
Subject: Re: [Chevelle-list] Trailering
Your Chevelle
All I know from transporting motorcycles is to avoid
compressing the suspension all the way to the stops. About 1/2 of the
available travel is usually enough pressure to hold them
down.
C
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 2:26
PM
Subject: Re: [Chevelle-list] Trailering
Your Chevelle
That's what I was afraid of. I know it's better
to anchor to an unsprung point, and there's just not that many places to
hook up to.... since I'm using straps, even with the protective sleeve
covering it, I don't feel comfortable wrapping a strap around the
a-arms with their sharp edges. I may have to make up two short pieces of
chain with a rubber hose over it or something with hooks or loops it the
ends. Maybe this justifies buying new tubular a-arms.... ;-)
Larry
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005
12:31 PM
Subject: RE: [Chevelle-list]
Trailering Your Chevelle
For
flatbed towing I believe we used to hook the a-arms in the front and over
the rear axle in the back.
John
Nasta
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Larry Shouse
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005
11:20 AM
To: Chevelle
List
Subject:
[Chevelle-list] Trailering Your Chevelle
It's time to
take my 66SS "shell" to my body and paint guy this weekend. I just loaded
the car onto the trailer. Not wanting to wrap chains around anything on my
freshly painted chassis, I went to the trailer store and bought
a four corner strap tie down system. In a nutshell, it's two
straps with a hook at both ends and a "D" ring that you can move up and
down the strap so you can loop the straps around something like the rear
end on each side and hook the other end to your trailer, plus two
more straps which are the same except they both have heavy duty ratcheting
buckles on them.
My
question is, I can run two of the straps around the rear end housing in
the back, but where do do you all use for anchoring points in the front of
the car???
Thanks,
Larry
Shouse
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