Okay, let's keep going with this and carry it a little farther. What about
tie-downs?. What are some of the ways you guys are doing it?
I once had a bad experience with a strap breaking, so I'm switching over to
four chains. I've found that if I just secure the car fore and aft, it tends
to slowly migrate towards the right hand side of the trailer after a thousand
miles or so. I figure the soluting is to cross the chains. Right now, I loop
over the rear axle on the right, and hook it to the left rear corner, then loop
a second chain over the left side of the axle, and hook it on the right rear
corner. The front is a puzzle, because no matter where I hook the chains, they
are on an un-sprung part of the chassis and they fight agains the normal
"bounce" of the cars suspension. I'm thinking about putting an eye-bolt
through the bottom of each lower control arm, and hooking the chains to those.
If I put them out near the outer ends, they will have the least up and down
travel.
Where do auto transporters hook their cars?
Dick J
In East Texas
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