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RE: Getting a car into the garage.

To: "Shop Talk" <shop-talk@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: Getting a car into the garage.
From: "Keith Kaplan" <keithka@Exchange.Microsoft.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 08:59:04 -0800
My advice -- if you use a winch to get the non-running car onto the
trailer, don't try to use it to lower the car off the trailer unless the
winch has power out.  Slipping the clutch on a cheapy winch doesn't give
you enough control over a heavy car, like, say, a 73 BMW 3.0s to keep it
from rolling right into a workbench.  (This is not a hypothetical
example.)

Your winch/comealong plan sounds like a fine plan to me, but pull slowly
and if the brakes work on the car, have an assistant ready to use them.

-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Harling [mailto:derek.lola@home.com]

Neighbors?

"Peter J. Thomas" wrote:

> eyebolts into the garage floor and use a comealong to tow the car in.
> Any thoughts, warnings, alternatives, etc.?

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