[bulletpruf]

Question about towing or winching a vehicle - in the rear, I generally use the rear diff, but what about the front? If you hook to the frame through one of the holes in the bottom, you can end up damaging it. What about the lower control arm where it meets the crossmember under the engine? This should be able to withstand the force of winching it up a trailer or securing the vehicle for a tow, right?

Thanks

[sdbob]

I never winched on, never had a winch. Pushed on twice ugh. I loop around lower a arm,protecting the strap with old heavy cloth bags. Then I also drilled solid eye bolts to frame as 2nd attaching point on 2nd gen F. Rear around housing or near trailing arm attaching point. State of Pa I've heard ( trailer inspector told me)wants the rear strapped in an 'X' pattern. I strap straight on. Havent been pulled over 'Yet'. My 2cts.

[Dragncar]

Use nylon straps and you can slide them around the frame under the oil pan for 2 attachment points.
No hooks or chains.

[b-man]

Always hooked through the holes in the bottom of the frame behind the front wheels, never any damage and I raced for 10 years doing this so not just a few times towing. In the rear i used axle straps around each side of the housing at the pumpkin and crossed the tie down straps, the car never moved or shifted on the trailer during the towing. I usually towed to the local track through a twisty canyon road and avoided the freeway most of the time.

My trailer had a winch but I never needed it because my GTO never broke at the track. However when I needed to winch an A-body or F-body car onto it I used a heavy nylon strap around the crossmember or a chain through both A-arms to attach the winch cable hook.

[JSchmitz]

I always used chains around the lower control arms in front. Used 10k ratchet straps, hooked in the lower control arm brackets, in the rear. I don't like hooking to suspended parts of the vehicle. Going over bumps affects the tie-down tension.

[BILL BOWMAN1]

The way Dragncar suggested

[johnta1]

I have a T-hook that attaches to the holes used to deliver the cars.
Works great and easy to insert, has a steel link for the hooks on the winch or straps.

[turbo69bird]

I like to grab the lower A ARM and I do that because it’s inches the nose down and dampens any up and down movement My straps tie back to themselves in a loop on the end one goes there the other goes up over the rear axle. But diagonally around the spring as well. Just how I’ve always done it. They sell bags to put under a car to dampen the movement but this does the same thing

[wolf]

Originally Posted by bulletpruf

...the lower control arm where it meets the crossmember under the engine...

This, using axle straps with seat belt protectors to save the paint.

[dataway]

Originally Posted by johnta1

I have a T-hook that attaches to the holes used to deliver the cars.
Works great and easy to insert, has a steel link for the hooks on the winch or straps.

Which holes were used to tie down for delivery? Would like to see a photo of the T-hooks too. Sounds like a good idea.

[johnta1]

The holes are the oval shaped ones in front of wheel on frame. Easy to get to.


T-hook

[Formulajones]

Originally Posted by johnta1

I have a T-hook that attaches to the holes used to deliver the cars.
Works great and easy to insert, has a steel link for the hooks on the winch or straps.

This is how I've done it for years. Every car I've towed has the oblong holes in the frame for T-hooks and once those are twisted into place they don't fall out. Same way all the cars were hooked on transporters when they were new.