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10-02-2023, 12:42 PM | #1 |
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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?
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10-02-2023, 08:15 PM | #2 |
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Re: Tailgate Hook Retaining Springs
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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10-02-2023, 08:28 PM | #3 |
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Re: Tailgate Hook Retaining Springs
Never heard of them but here you go. https://cgfordparts.com/catalogsearc...t/?q=46-830824
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10-02-2023, 09:56 PM | #4 |
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Found some pictures.
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10-02-2023, 10:48 PM | #5 |
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Re: Tailgate Hook Retaining Springs
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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Re: Tailgate Hook Retaining Springs
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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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10-03-2023, 12:31 PM | #8 |
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Re: Tailgate Hook Retaining Springs
Do you just use your thumb to move the spring to open?
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10-03-2023, 12:42 PM | #9 |
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Re: Tailgate Hook Retaining Springs
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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10-03-2023, 01:06 PM | #10 |
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Re: Tailgate Hook Retaining Springs
I also appreciate the info. I was trying to install them all wrong.
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10-03-2023, 01:08 PM | #11 |
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10-03-2023, 01:57 PM | #12 |
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Re: Tailgate Hook Retaining Springs
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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10-03-2023, 04:48 PM | #13 |
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Rest assured they were stock. This truck was restored to the most exacting standards of authenticity.
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10-03-2023, 05:07 PM | #14 |
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Re: Tailgate Hook Retaining Springs
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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10-03-2023, 06:31 PM | #15 |
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Re: Tailgate Hook Retaining Springs
Hooks don't pop off anymore. Thanks for the help.
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10-03-2023, 07:57 PM | #16 |
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Re: Tailgate Hook Retaining Springs
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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Re: Tailgate Hook Retaining Springs
"MINUTIA" (The correct spelling constitutes MORE minutia.) Coop . |
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