Looking for Suggestions for Hitch Step

[18CrewDually]

Anyone doing any amount of towing you'll appreciate having the correct size shank for your hitch. Using the adapter over time elongates the hitch receiver's pin hole and wears the pin. Having twice the slop with the adapter might be fine for a short run but not for long travels.

I use the B&W and am very pleased.

 

[DodgeDude99]

Just don’t leave that B&W hitch in all the time, they become unusable paper weights. Even though the pins are stainless, the hitch rusts and seizes the pins up.
Even with a 20 ton shop press I wasn’t able to get the pins out.

 

[AZOZ]

available at Lowes

 

[JS4024]

2” sleeve should have come with the truck, check for it under the back seat. Then weathertech hitch step.

 

[18CrewDually]

Just don’t leave that B&W hitch in all the time, they become unusable paper weights. Even though the pins are stainless, the hitch rusts and seizes the pins up.
Even with a 20 ton shop press I wasn’t able to get the pins out.

I appreciate the advice and am aware of the possibilities. The pins are constantly repositioned depending on what flatbed or enclosed trailer I'm hauling plus I flip the hitch for storage. I spray the pins with a rust preventative called Fluid Film.
Really good advice for any hitch.

 

[jaflowers]

BedStep Bumper Step - Best Truck Bumper Steps | AMP Research (amp-research.com)

My favorite and works great with the tailgate up or down.

 

[chri5k]

2" to 2.5" adapter or not get one of these to stop the annoying rattle. I have the B&W Tow & Stow. That thing weight like 25 lbs. It didn't rattle, it thumped. Put the anti-rattle clamp on there and I am happy.

https://amazon.com/gp/product/B07JDF79W9/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

[rlgdtime]

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B013SBQEM0

Larger step and works as a footrest when you sit on the tailgate.

 

[GTyankee]

 

[GTyankee]

In San Diego, you can get a ticket if you have anything sticking out of your hitch receiver & you don't have anything like trailer or handicapped
equipment .
I guess too many people banged their kneecaps

In my town, i would say that 1/3 of the land is a ranch of some kind & we have several businesses, like GEAR VENDORS, where you tow your vehicle there & drop it off.
In the next town over there are more Horse Ranches than i want to count & there are not many Sheriffs that would write a ticket for something stinking out of a hitch.

By the way, i have a hitch & hitch step, i remove them

 

[Rado]

In San Diego, you can get a ticket if you have anything sticking out of your hitch receiver & you don't have anything like trailer or handicapped
equipment .
I guess too many people banged their kneecaps

In my town, i would say that 1/3 of the land is a ranch of some kind & we have several businesses, like GEAR VENDORS, where you tow your vehicle there & drop it off.
In the next town over there are more Horse Ranches than i want to count & there are not many Sheriffs that would write a ticket for something stinking out of a hitch.

By the way, i have a hitch & hitch step, i remove them

WOW California does some weird stuff Do they fine you if you fart now ? lol

 

[Badger 13]

That's funny. CA doesn't want the cows farting due to all the methane gas it produces. Maybe "Greta" will get on this as well...

 

[GTyankee]

LOL
That reminds me about a FART that happened in 1963
You could call it a Memorable Fart

I graduated from the Navy's Great Lakes Boot Camp on January 23rd 1963, i seem to remember that it was -23 degrees F & windy

In the military they tell you what to wear & they don't give you options, especially in Boot Camp

The uniform of the day was dress blues, sweater, P Coat & possibly a scarf.
They had not told us that we could wear gloves or anything to cover our ears.

They had us marched to a train station & had us go into what seemed like a warehouse.

My ears hurt like someone was holding a branding iron against them
While we were in the building, i noticed that everyone except our graduating class were wearing gloves & had a scarf wrapped around their ears & face when they got in there.

While standing there in formation, they handed us an envelope, it was our Orders.
My Orders read Jacksonville Florida
The train took us to an airport, i don't recall whether it was a civilian or military aircraft, my ears were just about the only thing that i thought about.

The plane landed & our group leader mentioned that someone from the Naval Base would be coming to pick us up
I forgot to mention, it was 70 + degrees in Florida & we were already sweating.

Finally a pickup truck showed up, it read Shore Patrol on the sides
They had been told that there was a couple of sailors coming in from Great Lakes & they would be going to NAS JAX

Well a couple was not the number in the group
There was 9 of us & our Seabags, all of us sweating like pigs
We had to load into the bed of that pickup truck
9 young adult men & seabags
You know that we were over payload & low on fresh air.
We had not driven far when one of the guys started farting.
I forgot about my ears & everyone started yelling at the 2 Shore Patrol up in the front to open some vents or something.
Well maybe they were having fun at our expense, but the just said that we were almost there. That trip felt like it was an hour or more long.

When the Shore Patrol opened that door, the stench hit him & he started yelling at no one in particular

I don't remember much after that, except when my ears thawed out