Tailgate Hook Retaining Springs
 

I want to install a set of tailgate hook retaining springs. Not sure how they are supposed to be orientated. Can someone explain or show a photo of how these are intended to be installed?
Thanks

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I have never heard of such a thing, but I sure could use some. Even though I insert the hook from below the eye (like a fish hook) and flip them, they rarely survive my steep and rutted 1/2 mile gravel road. At least one of them is unhooked when I get home from town. You have a picture of these things?

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Never heard of them but here you go. https://cgfordparts.com/catalogsearc...t/?q=46-830824
Doesn't show how they are installed.

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Found some pictures.

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Thank you Bob, but still not quite getting how they work. When I have a critical load like 25 sheets of 3/4" maple plywood I hook bungees from the eye of the hook down to my back bumper. The tonner pickups will haul full sheets of plywood with the gate shut. This spring affair would be a better look and always at the ready.

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Had these on my 36 dodge ,I thought they were a dodge part. They work great. They make the hook into a closed loop. They are simple when you look at one in place but hard to explain over the wire, Tim

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Hey GB,
Look closely at the spring and you should (I hope) be able to see the spring that closes the "loop". Simple in theory and actual use.

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Do you just use your thumb to move the spring to open?

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Thanks Kube! Now I get it completely. I think Bill is correct in just springing the free end (looks like a cotter pin) sideways with your thumb.

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I also appreciate the info. I was trying to install them all wrong.

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Exactly!

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Were those stock from the factory? I've looked at a lot of pickup but can't say I've ever seen them before.

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Rest assured they were stock. This truck was restored to the most exacting standards of authenticity.

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No issues with your work Kube, I was just wondering if they all came that way or if it was an option. I wonder why they are not seen more often now?

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Hooks don't pop off anymore. Thanks for the help.

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They became standard equipment with the 1933 model trucks with tailgate bodies.

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Great call Dave. Talk about minitua!

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David and I have "issues" :)

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"MINUTIA" (The correct spelling constitutes MORE minutia.)


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