My machine shop had so much snow on the roof that the wooden trusses were buckling. I gently pushed my 944 out of the shed with my tractor and into the yard, nose up against the fence. I now want to pull it back in to the centre of the yard so I can push it back into the shed now we have all the snow off the roof.
How can I pull it out backwards from where it is? I do not see anything to hook onto with the tow-rope.
What does one do?
Mike

 

I would attach to the steel tube that that torson bars are in, it is firmly attached to the car and is strong.

 

Why not use the tow hook eye?

 

Thanks, Brian, this is my first Porshe. I just looked in the Haynes manual at the picture of the rear underside, found the tube. By the way, I just paid for my membership to Rennlist,
Mike

 

Towing hook eye? Where is that located? I'm having to pull her out ***-backwards.
Mike

 

In your tool kit there is a a tow hook eye that you screw onto the car.

With the euro bumper there's a hole that it fits to on the passenger side under the bumper, don't know about the US bumpers but it should be the same. Usually there is a lot of dirt in the hole so you need to clean it out before getting the eye in..

 

No towing hole in the U.S. rear bumper. The torsion bar tube may be OK, but it's a bit upwards.

I prefer the rear trailing arms. Just be sure to run the rope around the arms themselves and not to pull from where the shock absorbers are attached to the arms.

 

When I had my car towed onto a flatbed, they hooked it up to some part of the torsion tube and pulled it up that way. This is a shop that tows a decent amount of Porsches, and this guy knew at least a little about 944's (he wasn't looking around the bottom of the car confused as to where to hook it, he went right to that spot).

 

Welcome aboard
It is hard to get to but it will not yeild under the force of a tow. That isn't true on most of the mounting points on the rear of a 944.

 

Well Brandon,

For years I've read in the E-Mail lists not to jack up the car by the torsion bar tubes so it made sense to me when the flatbed operator that towed my car onto a flatbed for a shop in Europe that also did a lot of Porsches used the rear trailing arms.

YMMV.

 

The entire rear weight of the car is carried on this steel tube. The trailing arms are attached to the torsion bar tube or what PET calls the "rear axle cross tube". The rear trailing arms are bolted into rear axle cross tube so if you pull on this aluminum arm, you are pulling on the steel axle cross tube. Am I missing something?

 

I don't think the question lies in the strength of the tubes mounted to the body, but rather the strength of the tubes themselves. They are designed to take a torque force from the internal arms, not a crushing force from jack stands. That's my guess at least. I would think for towing they should be fine though as it really doesn't involve as much force as holding up a car (try pushing your car versus lifting it up to see what I mean).

 

Securing mine to a trailer I wrapped around the rear bumper shock absorbers.