Changing the clevis hooks on my safety chains

RoyB wrote:
My F150 trailer hitch looks like this google image view. I cross connect the chains in the two hook slots shown here. My chains have the safety latch - easy to hook-up for me...





I also use one of these type D-RING hooks that goes through a separate hole on the rear bumper for the breakaway cable. Easy to slip the breakaway loop into the spring loaded slot of the D-Ring. I notice alot of folks have their break-away cable in-with one of the chain hooks...


Roy Ken

I was taught to use the crossover method to hook up the chains and if they are too long put a twist or two in them.

I thick it was your pervious post that I suggested that you grind the tip of your clevis hook down a bit. I hd the same problem with my F150, I went to the hooks that Roy is using. I used them for one trip and went back to the clevis hooks. That little spring loaded safety got mangled on on of the slip hooks and I found it laying on the ground when I stopped for gas.