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1. [Shop-talk] Enclosed car trailer (score: 1): Author: Brad Kahler <bkahler1@gmail.com>; Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2015 15:49:36 -0400; Sometime in the next 6 months or so I'm thinking about buying an enclosed car trailer for hauling my TR6 behind my motorhome. For those of you who may have been down this road I'd like to ask a few q; /html/shop-talk/2015-09/msg00005.html (9,313 bytes)
2. Re: [Shop-talk] Enclosed car trailer (score: 1): Author: Jim Juhas <james.f.juhas@snet.net>; Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2015 17:30:56 -0400; Sent from my iPhone No but use it to hold other stuff down, and on the walls. One inch wood screws into the deck. Lots of them, every hole. Haven't tied the car down with that. I tie to recessed ring; /html/shop-talk/2015-09/msg00006.html (11,602 bytes)
3. Re: [Shop-talk] Enclosed car trailer (score: 1): Author: Dave <dave1massey@cs.com>; Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2015 18:03:24 -0400; Although not an enclosed trailer, I fitted the trailer I used with E-track. I used wheel nets (or whatever they are called) to secure the four tires to the trailer leaving the car to move freely abou; /html/shop-talk/2015-09/msg00007.html (10,710 bytes)
4. Re: [Shop-talk] Enclosed car trailer (score: 1): Author: David Hillman <hillman@planet-torque.com>; Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2015 19:37:54 -0400 (EDT); I may or may not be the right guy to ask... I'm on trailer number 4 at the moment. Yes and no. I installed E-track in the floor of my current trailer ( it came with full wall E-track ). I used it for; /html/shop-talk/2015-09/msg00008.html (12,808 bytes)
5. Re: [Shop-talk] Enclosed car trailer (score: 1): Author: Brad Kahler <bkahler1@gmail.com>; Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2015 20:43:01 -0400; Jim, thanks for the feedback. It's always interesting to hear how other people go about dealing with similar projects. At first I was really into the idea of using e-track but I'm starting to think i; /html/shop-talk/2015-09/msg00009.html (12,182 bytes)
6. Re: [Shop-talk] Enclosed car trailer (score: 1): Author: Brad Kahler <bkahler1@gmail.com>; Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2015 20:46:18 -0400; Hi Dave, nice seeing you an Linda at the convention :) How much room do you have for the ratchet straps when using the wheel nets (bonnets)? I'm starting to think that in the confined spaces of an en; /html/shop-talk/2015-09/msg00010.html (10,849 bytes)
7. Re: [Shop-talk] Enclosed car trailer (score: 1): Author: Brad Kahler <bkahler1@gmail.com>; Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2015 20:50:56 -0400; David, thanks for the feedback. I'm hoping if/when I buy an enclosed trailer I get it right the first time! I can see where 3-track would be a problem considering what you're transporting. Seems like; /html/shop-talk/2015-09/msg00011.html (14,670 bytes)
8. Re: [Shop-talk] Enclosed car trailer (score: 1): Author: David Hillman <hillman@planet-torque.com>; Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2015 23:44:49 -0400 (EDT); The other question is, do you want to secure the load in the trailer, or just the wheels? I know some people like the idea of 1 to 3 tons of vehicle flopping around in their trailer... I do not. I th; /html/shop-talk/2015-09/msg00012.html (10,839 bytes)
9. Re: [Shop-talk] Enclosed car trailer (score: 1): Author: David Hillman <hillman@planet-torque.com>; Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2015 23:59:57 -0400 (EDT); Really the only reason for floor e-track is to haul a variety of things. If this is only going to be a mobile TR6 garage, I see no point at all. Put d-rings where you need them, and be done with it.; /html/shop-talk/2015-09/msg00013.html (11,588 bytes)
10. Re: [Shop-talk] Enclosed car trailer (score: 1): Author: Dave <dave1massey@cs.com>; Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 07:48:44 -0400; If you put restraints on the chassis but don't compress the suspension sufficiently the restraints will go slack in a jounce situation and when the suspension rebounds and you hit the limits of the r; /html/shop-talk/2015-09/msg00014.html (10,963 bytes)
11. Re: [Shop-talk] Enclosed car trailer (score: 1): Author: Brad Kahler <bkahler1@gmail.com>; Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 08:55:26 -0400; I've tied vehicles down both ways. Usually it depended on what sort of tie down access was available on any specific vehicle. I've towed large and small vehicles and never had issues either way and I; /html/shop-talk/2015-09/msg00015.html (11,938 bytes)
12. Re: [Shop-talk] Enclosed car trailer (score: 1): Author: Brad Kahler <bkahler1@gmail.com>; Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 09:01:08 -0400; I've pretty much made up my mind to go with D-rings. The maddening part is on a TR4/TR6 tying down the rear of the car is a royal pain. I'll probably have to add fixed tie points to the car chassis; /html/shop-talk/2015-09/msg00016.html (12,672 bytes)
13. Re: [Shop-talk] Enclosed car trailer (score: 1): Author: Mike Rambour <lists@dinospider.com>; Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 07:54:23 -0700; and when you get lucky and I mean really lucky, the car rolls off the trailer on the freeway offramp and comes to a stop with minimal damage...a few hundred yards earlier I would have been to 60, ins; /html/shop-talk/2015-09/msg00017.html (11,281 bytes)
14. Re: [Shop-talk] Enclosed car trailer (score: 1): Author: David Hillman <hillman@planet-torque.com>; Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 12:34:25 -0400 (EDT); At risk of sounding like a paid shill, which I am not. Use snap hooks, which cannot disengage. Relying on tension alone to maintain attachment is risky, as you discovered. <http://www.lodimetals.com/; /html/shop-talk/2015-09/msg00018.html (11,058 bytes)
15. Re: [Shop-talk] Enclosed car trailer (score: 1): Author: Mike Rambour <lists@dinospider.com>; Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 10:16:33 -0700; Open trailer with beaver tail, I personally have never seen a reason for a enclosed trailer. My trailers have to do dual duty...haul trash to the dump and haul my car around. Its hard to haul trash t; /html/shop-talk/2015-09/msg00019.html (12,872 bytes)
16. Re: [Shop-talk] Enclosed car trailer (score: 1): Author: John Innis <jdinnis@gmail.com>; Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 12:24:01 -0500; Since you started the discussion, lets get this one going right. First and foremost, I am not an expert, but the information I am presenting here was presented to me by someone I believed to be an ex; /html/shop-talk/2015-09/msg00020.html (14,070 bytes)
17. Re: [Shop-talk] Enclosed car trailer (score: 1): Author: David Hillman <hillman@planet-torque.com>; Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 14:32:24 -0400 (EDT); OT, but having had both, you will pry my box trailer from my cold dead hands. Reasons: 1. Weather. I used to have hundreds of pounds of snow and ice collected on my open trailer and the entire front; /html/shop-talk/2015-09/msg00022.html (12,359 bytes)
18. Re: [Shop-talk] Enclosed car trailer (score: 1): Author: Joe Szwed <szwedj@gmail.com>; Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 15:29:50 -0400; What I have seen some guys do with race cars is they use blocks or stands made that they put under the chassis where they strap to it, so they pull the chassis down tight on the blocks to the trailer; /html/shop-talk/2015-09/msg00023.html (9,757 bytes)
19. Re: [Shop-talk] Enclosed car trailer (score: 1): Author: Brad Kahler <bkahler1@gmail.com>; Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 16:22:48 -0400; Having started this thread I would say it's starting to cover areas that I had not originally intended (or thought of) but the information that is being posted is good stuff and I'm glad it's being p; /html/shop-talk/2015-09/msg00024.html (14,039 bytes)
20. Re: [Shop-talk] Enclosed car trailer (score: 1): Author: Brad Kahler <bkahler1@gmail.com>; Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 10:38:04 -0400; Joe, Thanks for the info on the torsion/leaf differences. I think the only time I've dealt with a torsion suspension was on an old Airstream trailer. The rubber inside the tubes had definitely deteri; /html/shop-talk/2015-09/msg00048.html (11,770 bytes)

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