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Originally Posted by ThePair
Seriously, I miss a couple days checking the forums, and you're all up in my business!! 
Yep, I went through winch/tracks and powermover, along with TM mods to make it fit. The next step was to devise removable trim, which is probably a relatively simple solution. You don't need 3 inches of clearance (speaking from experience!), but 1/2 inch will be annoying and difficult.
You may want to do trim removal and tracks -- the tracks are cheap and really, really helped until I got the powermover.
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Thanks! Yep, I have 1/2" clearance now, and "annoying and difficult" is the exact description. I could probably get it through, but if it's "difficult and annoying", we're not going to use it much. So, the solution's gotta be simple.
Removable trim sounds like the best solution. Started on that yesterday. Discovered some termite damage behind the trim, so that'll get fixed too.
I'm having trouble visualizing how the tracks would work. If they're mounted to the garage floor, for the tires to use them (assuming backing in), the back half of the TM would already be through the door opening (the hard part of backing it in is getting it perfectly squared up). Seems like they'd have to be mounted to the driveway to be of any use.
Pulling in tongue first (using a track for the tongue jack wheel) is out of the question, right now. It'd be too many steps to get it into the garage (pull in driveway, chock wheels, disconnect trailer, move tow vehicle out of the way, connect winch, pull into garage - Then do it all over again when we need it out). Sailors launching deep keel boats use a similar method, with straps or chains, to get the trailer deep enough to float the boat off. Too much work for me - I'd probably do it once and then call it off after that.
My dad suggested tracks also, so I know it's a viable solution, just trying to figure out how they'd be used.
-Joe