Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 06:32:02 -0800
Reply-To: Anthony Egeln <regnsuzanne@YAHOO.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Anthony Egeln <regnsuzanne@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: will yours fit in the garage?
In-Reply-To: <00cd01c64257$3befd840$2decf004@computer>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
In my old house I kept my Syncro GL in the garage always. One of the big disappointments of the house I bought last summer in Florida is that the Syncro won't fit in the garage. Specifically, it won't clear the raised door. The garage opening is 82", and my van is about 79". But here in Florida the building code dictates a series of metal supports running the width of the inside of the door, and with the first support at 78" the van won't clear, and barely might clearly the second (the supports are to prevent hurricane force winds from collapsing the door). I had the garage door guys in to look at it and they can't raise the door high enough, even with the new expensive belt driven door opener they sold me. Part of the problem is a support beam overhead the garage holding up the second story. The door track can't be raised unless we notch the beam, and I suppose I'd have to hire an engineer to determine if the beam could be notched. Also, the door is an 18' foot, old wooden
door and it sags about two inches in the center even with the hurricane bars. A new metal door might not sag as much but it still would be close. And my wallet would really sag after being emptied for the new door.
In the meantime my ride has to sit outside in the rain until I figure out someway to raise the door.
Anthony
'89 SyncroGL (Hidalgo)
Gerald Masar <azsun99@EARTHLINK.NET> wrote: If you have a garage door opener, you should be able to adjust it to pull the door up
so that it clears the opening. That worked at my last house and my '90 Westy always
fit. At my current house, the Westy fit, but sometimes scraped just slightly,
depending on the weather and how much gas was in the tank. I removed most of the 2 x 6
running across the top and replaced it with a 1 x 6. No more problems, and as of a
year or so ago, BOTH Westys fit, side by side.
Jerry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Maggie Dew"
To:
Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 10:29 PM
Subject: will yours fit in the garage?
I looked at that Sportsmobile website and saw this:
"Sportsmobile's new Penthouse "G" installed on a Ford RB 8,600 GVWR van and
a Sportsmobile Conversion measures 83" high. This will fit into most
garages."
My '85 Westy is 83-1/2" tall at the skylight, '83" at the luggage carrier.
I haven't been able to get it in any of several garages I've tried. I
measured my sister's garage today and the opening is 83", but with the
garage door up, the door hangs down to 82", so I could not get in it.
My Westy is not level - front springs are a couple of inches higher than the
rear. Anybody else have trouble finding a garage to fit into?
Maggie
---------------------------------
Yahoo! Mail
Use Photomail to share photos without annoying attachments.
| 
