Emergency Brake Cord
While I was using my weed whip around the front of my travel trailer the whip caught the cord to the emergency brake and pulled out the plastic plug from the base. By that plastic plug being taken out...
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CraigBrew wrote:
What do you guys hook yours to? There is nothing to hook it to on my truck. Was thinking about adding something to the truck or the hitch.
Anything OTHER than the hitch that is attached to the vehicle.
On my older 2006 F250 I was able to attach the breakaway cable to the underside of the bumper. There is an attachment point for safety chains IF you were using the ball mount on the bumper.
Fast forward to my new 2013 F250 and found out that Ford cheeped out on the bumper and made it too cheap and flimsy and eliminated the bumper ball mount and those chain tie points.
I had to make my own tie point by taking a short chain, wrapping around a steel "reinforcement" tube behind the bumper (which is not attached to the hitch). I used a chain link repair to close the chain loop. The loop is short enough that it doesn't hang below the bumper but gives me a easy way to secure the break away cable to.
I didn't want to drill holes randomly into a fresh off the assembly line vehicle..
