Where do you hook your brake break-away safty cable on the truck?











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I hook mine around the locking hitch pin. The hook on the cable is the perfect size to slip on the pin and then the locking part goes on. No way it can fall off.

I wouldn't tow a lot of weight with that round tube hitch, they are notorious for cracking the welds...

I hook mine onto the ears on the hitch where you hook the saftey chains. Of couse this will do no good if that part of the hitch or the entire hitch breaks free from the truck.

NOT where I hook the safety chains.

It's hooked to my bumper which is not mounted to the frame with the same bolts as the hitch.

Here is another associated question:

What length should the break-away cable, electrical connection, and safety chains be?

Meaning, lets say your hitch/coupler fails and your trailer comes dislodged...

Should your electrical connector cable (assuming you have E/H brakes) should be longer than your safety chains?
I say yes. That way you still have control of your brakes even if your trailer is only being held to the truck by the chains.

Should your emergency break-away brake cable be (slightly) longer than your safety chains?
I say yes. That way you still have control over your brakes using the truck/electrical connection cable. If your safety chains break, THEN the break-away brake cable will actuate the trailer brakes within a split second.

Also, look at the routing path of your break-away cable. You don't want your trailer to fall to the ground and clip your cable in half before it yanks out of the actuator. You also don't want anything else to get in the way of this action.

I hook mine to the ears on the trailer hitch... I am guessing it is going to get pretty messy if the brakes on the trailer lock up if it becomes dislodged off the truck...

What cable? What brakes?

and hold my beer

Almost 20,000 posts and your finaly hooking up the break away cable and holding your beer? time to buy a new truck with cup holders

Ive been hooking it up to the safty chains,it want reach the hitch,I need to buy a longer one,just seeing if theres a better way or trick way