Deist and other companys make over the tire tie downs. I used them on the
rear slicks and the front axle set in a cradle with a u-bolt arrangement
over the top of the axle and a quick pin on each side. Never had a problem
with the car moving. I have seen a couple of stream liners with a tube
welded across the frame in two places with screw type load binders to hold
the car down. Al Teague uses this method on his liner. Each tube has a thick
round plug welded into each side and they are threaded to hold a swivel type
eye bolt. Works great.
Glen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dick J" <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
To: "drmayf" <drmayf@mayfco.com>; "LSR" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 3:53 PM
Subject: Chassis Cushion and Tie Downs
> 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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