I want to buy an enclosed trailer for my car.......problem is that all enclosed trailers have a stock minimum height. my city won't allow me to keep the trailer in the driveway so i must park it in the back yard. there is a valence that i can't remove that overhangs off of the garage which limits my height to 8' 3" the trailer is 8' 7"

i have to go through this way, no other choice. is there a way or a solution to possibly lower the trailer for a time being to make it through. ie: smaller wheels, lower tire pressure, etc.

cutting up the house isn't an option and neither is digging a one foot trench either as the ground is that really bad clay junk.

i've thought about lowering the tire pressure but i don't think it will be enough and car trailers don't exactly have adjustable suspension.......

any ideas????

 

Did you say the city has a MINIMUM height restriction? Is it too short to put in your front yard? What are the city rules?

 

You could always try lowering the air pressure in the tires to like 5psi. My grandfather who used to be a semi driver told me thats how they used to get un-stuck from freeway overpasses back in the old days.

 

I have a tiller if you want to try digging the clay up. You can put some mini spair tires on to move it in and out but that is alot of work. Or if it has shocks you can install some airshocks. Thats all I can come up with.

 

yeah, that might work chris....

the trailer has a 6 bolt pattern and i've been told 15" is the smallest rim i can get which it already has.

could i possibly put adapters to use a smaller rim or would that be trouble?


ROADRAGE, it isn't so much the height more or less the size of the object; it's to big......

i'm going tomorrow to get the exact specifics since they couldn't tell me everything over the phone.

 

This is going to be hard to explain but I'll give it a try.
Take the front trailer tires completely off. Now let the jack down. As the front axle goes down the back axle will go up. If it goes up too far the tires will rub on the underside of the body. If this happens jack the front axle back up till you have about 1/2" clearance between the rear tires and the body. Now measure and cut some blocking to go between the rear axle and the frame so that the next time that you let the front axle down the blocks keep the rear tires from hitting the body. The front axle may touch the ground but this is no biggie as you're not going to go down the road like this. Just back into the back yard. If this bothers you, then chain the front axle up just shy of the ground. Then let the rear tires down to 7 or 8 lbs. This should give you the clearance that you need.
If you have any questions send me an e-mail.

 

that just might work...............very creative i like it; thanks alot for thinking of a new way al. you really think that's possible on a 26' tandem setup?


anyone else have other ideas for me to try......?

 

It's the way they set the tandem up that will help out. The front of the rear leaf and the rear of the front leaf hook to a rocker. One axle goes up the other goes down. This lets it transition bumps and high spots better. It should work for you. If you were closer I'd come over and lend a hand. I just don't have any spare time available, sorry.

Al

 

My friend in NJ ordered a Cargo Mate trailer just to haul around his show car and he got them to build it 6" lower than normal so it would have less wind resistance when he pulled it around with his Tahoe.

 

"used to be a semi driver told me thats how they used to get un-stuck from freeway overpasses back in the old days."

You just gave me a flash back to when I got my car hauler stuck going under an overpass I shouldn't have been trying to go under. I was unloaded and thought it would be cool. I was going very slow at the time, and still got stuck. Smoked the tires trying to reverse and forward out of there. Finally I just lowered the air down and it came way down.

Measure it and see how far you need to bring it down. You should be able to drop 3-4" just by lowering the air down, That by far would be the easiest. Keep in mind, that the trailer will also be lower when you have the car loaded in there, as the springs will be compressed.

For a perm solution, you might look at the setup and see if they have blocks on the springs that you could have taken out so that you could lower it. I'm sure there has to be a way to lower it. Good luck.

 

I own a small farm business and we have that problem sometimes, these are your best options.
1. if you have leaf springs pull some out to lower it.
2. definately lower the tire pressure.
3. Put some weight in the trailer to make it sink.
4. Wet the ground with a garden hose so the trailer will sink in the ground an inch.
5. get some tiny trailer tires from like Meijer or something.
This should work if not tell me how close you get.

 

Almost everybody is using the Dexter torsion axles on the common car hauling tralers. These are straight axles with no shocks or springs.

 

This must be a new set-up. My trailer and redbirds trailer both have leaf springs. We must have the cheap schit.

Al

 

If it has dexter torsion bars instead of leaf springs you should be able to just turn (loosen the nut) them and lower the ride height.

 

i don't know if it does or not as it doesn't say on the website for the build sheet.........

i was told i can't go smaller than 15" on a 6 bolt pattern, any suggestions if wetting the ground and air pressure as well as everything else doesn't work?

they don't make 6 bolt adapters so i could fit a smaller rim do they. it would be a pita but it's maybe once or twice a year i would have to do this so i wouldn't mind to make it work.