Tow Hook Install?
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Tow Hook Install?
Hey all, I'm new to the game. I'm hoping someone could help me, I've got a 1994 F-150 and I want to install tow hooks front and back. So far, I haven't found any products that provide this and I know that Ford never put them on the trucks. If anyone has put them on their rig, or knows how to, please let me know. Thanks for everything.
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The Hooks They Sell Will Not Fit Without Having A Bracket Of Some Sort Fabricated. I've Looked For Hours Trying To Figure It Out But In The End I Wll Have To Have Them Made. On The Rear You Could Weld Some To The Hitch Bar, If You Have One.
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Install a trailer hitch and use it to to attach your chain for towing. Incidentally the reason Ford never put tow hooks on the front is us Ford lovers never get stuck. The chevy trucks have them so the Ford's have something to attach to when they get stuck (which is often). Ha-Ha. LOL 
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It's kinda frustrating on this era trucks with the accordian section of frame up front. Best way is to pick up some standard hooks, position them where you want them under the frame and drill all the way through to the top of the rail. If you can, try to line the holes up where the frame goes up. The when you run the bolts, slide some tube with a 1/2 ID in the frame and run the bolts through it so you don't crush the frame when you tighten the bolts.
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Originally Posted by Lee93Ford
Install a trailer hitch and use it to to attach your chain for towing. Incidentally the reason Ford never put tow hooks on the front is us Ford lovers never get stuck. The chevy trucks have them so the Ford's have something to attach to when they get stuck (which is often). Ha-Ha. LOL
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The back is easy, tow hitch, and receiver with a hook on it. You should be able to live with one hook back there. The front will be tough, maybe you could find an old snow plow frame, strip it down, put on your hooks, then mount it. That will hurt front end clearance.
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I went to a shop and got them to fabricate 2 brackets for front and 2 brackets for rear. They welded them to my frame. They have holes drilled into them so i can slide shackles (clevis) in there. Works great and looks great aswell. Dont know if i have it in my gallery yet. It cost me $80 Canadian for the 4 brackets and welded on, Pretty cheap but the clevis's are $25 a piece.
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I built a 2x2 reciever hitch slide-in mount with a tow hook on it. It was easy to build: a 12" long piece of 2x2x.25" tube, drill holes for the tow hook bolts and the hitch pin, a 5/8" hitch pin and a 10,000-lb bolt-on tow hook from the auto parts store with 1/2" bolts. Cost less than 20 bucks.
I have front and rear receiver hitches so I just move the tow hook to whatever end of the truck I need it on and I'm ready to hook up and pull. I keep the hook, 25' of 3/8 chain and hooks, and a tow strap in the truck and they have been handy to have with me
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Front reciever hitch was about $120 at www.etrailer.com and handles 500 lbs of 'tongue weight' and 9000 lbs of winch line pull, if I ever want to get a winch that mounts in the hitch reviever. The rear hitch is easy to find anywhere truck parts are sold.
I have front and rear receiver hitches so I just move the tow hook to whatever end of the truck I need it on and I'm ready to hook up and pull. I keep the hook, 25' of 3/8 chain and hooks, and a tow strap in the truck and they have been handy to have with me
.Front reciever hitch was about $120 at www.etrailer.com and handles 500 lbs of 'tongue weight' and 9000 lbs of winch line pull, if I ever want to get a winch that mounts in the hitch reviever
. The rear hitch is easy to find anywhere truck parts are sold.
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Will that hitch for a 1994 F-250 fit a 1990 F-250? The crossmember that goes along the bottom of the frame that has the sway bar tied into it is bent to hell and so is my sway bar. I need either a new crossmemeber and sway bar or what i really want to get is a front mount hitch (like this one) and then new swaybar. If i get that hitch will the sway bar still tie into it with the bushing etc. I really need to get this taken care of, so if it will fit i'll get it right away and i will be able to adapt the sway bar.
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Andy, Fords and Chevy's have different frame widths, in the rear anyways. I found this out when I tried to swap my heavy duty 'cowboy' drop step bumper from my old '82 Chevy onto my '92 F350.
Big90250, I would think the hitch should interchange between the '90 and the '94, since the trucks didn't change much during the '87-'97 years. You might want to look up both years on Reese's hitch website www.reeseprod.com and see if the part numbers are the same for both trucks. The front hitches are different between 4x4 and 2wd and between gas and diesel engines, for F350's anyways.
Big90250, I would think the hitch should interchange between the '90 and the '94, since the trucks didn't change much during the '87-'97 years. You might want to look up both years on Reese's hitch website www.reeseprod.com and see if the part numbers are the same for both trucks. The front hitches are different between 4x4 and 2wd and between gas and diesel engines, for F350's anyways.
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Originally Posted by 924x2150
The back is easy, tow hitch, and receiver with a hook on it. You should be able to live with one hook back there. The front will be tough, maybe you could find an old snow plow frame, strip it down, put on your hooks, then mount it. That will hurt front end clearance.
for the front is to make a front hitch type deal. or do what i did and install huge rings in place of two of the bolts that hold your bumper to the frame. i'll take a picture if you want.