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wowaminnie
Explorer
Sep 01, 2013

Stretch a garage door or shrink a trailer

Have a ten foot high garage door opening.
Have a ten foot high TT at the highest point. Would backing up to the door and dropping the air pressure in all four tires give mu sufficient clearance to get in the door?
  • If this was going to be a one shot deal where I was taking it in there for instance for a long term rebuild or similar, I would go to the junk yard and get a set of wheels on the cheap, and put them on the trailer with no tires, and back 'er thru the doorway.
    Kinda of a lot of trouble though if a guy wanted to take the trailer in and out a lot.
  • Lowsuv wrote:
    the angle of the dangle will probably get you ..
    a 10 foot high trailer will not fit because of the lip between the driveway and garage create an issue after the trailer is in until the axles crest the lip .
    this particular phenomonom is called a " wedgie " .


    unless the approach to the garage and the garage itself are perfectly level there could be a big problem.
    bumpy
  • When the same subject came up a while ago, someone suggested replacing the air conditioner with a low profile one to loose a couple of inches.

    Bill
  • the angle of the dangle will probably get you ..
    a 10 foot high trailer will not fit because of the lip between the driveway and garage create an issue after the trailer is in until the axles crest the lip .
    this particular phenomonom is called a " wedgie " .
  • Just make sure you have also figured in the height of your air cond unit too. :W
  • No one can answer that for you. You'll have to get some one to watch while you "slowly" try it. I stood on the rear ladder once, checking the clearance at a RR tunnel on a back road (had a grass strip between the tire tracks).

    Some times doors hang a bit lower than the opening. Maybe you could raise the upper limit. We don't know what kind of trim you have around the door but it's a area that might lend it's self to modifications.
  • RoyB's avatar
    RoyB
    Explorer II
    might want to look at those portable garages...