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garage height clearance solution: let air out of tires?

saxon

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'91 & '93 EB, 4WD, 4-door
My new (to me) 1991 4WD EB is one inch taller than the arm of my (newish) garage door.

A friend suggested that I let the air out of the tires a bit while I put the explorer in the garage. If I'm only driving the X for 15 feet, what's the lowest pressure I can run and not have the tires spin off the wheels (or damage the tires)? The X has the stock tire size.

Other ideas? I've already removed the roof racks (I don't plan to use them anyway and the rear one was missing when I bought it).
 



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So from what I understand with your problem, you are clearing the door itself, but the arm that sticks down does not clear - correct? In that case, I'm guessing you have a similar setup to what I've got, and I think I have an answer for you. My garage door has a chain like most do, and it attaches to a bar that attaches to a bar that attaches to the door itself. The two bars do not attach to each other at their end points, however, the one bar end is bolted to the other bar about 1/2 way, and it looks like there is room for adjustment. When the door is open, that unused part of the bar sticks down quite a bit. Watch it when the door goes down, you may be able to cut off the excess length of that adjustment bar and be fine. Just watch it going up and down and make sure it doesn't pivot at some point or anything like that.
I'll take a picture of mine tonight and post it.
--Bob
 






saxon said:
If I'm only driving the X for 15 feet, what's the lowest pressure I can run and not have the tires spin off the wheels (or damage the tires)?
I've wheeled at 10psi alot, with no problem. You'll probably gain the inch before you even get to 10.
 






10 psi to move into garage, 0 psi to close door, then reinflate?

I just talked to the guy who suggested letting the air out of the tires and a light bulb came on during the conversation.

I suggested lowering all of the tires to 10psi to get the car under the black arm of the garage door, letting ALL of the air out of the rear tires to lower the door (don't want to dig a hole in the roof of the X; the nice sheet metal is one of the reasons I bought it), then once door is closed, reinflate the tires.

RangerX just suggested 10psi as okay.

Sound plausible?

Kind of a lot of bother but I will only need to do work inside the garage infrequently.
 






It's how I got my Ranger with 7" lift + 37's into my garage to paint it. :D
 






10 psi is fine to drive on, depending on the size of your tires.

I personalyl would look to modify/adjsut the garage door if needed, if you want to be able to park in there alot.
 






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