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This bolt leader helps you easily pull 5/8" bolts or other hardware through hard-to-access holes in your vehicle's frame. The fish wire tool helps you install a trailer hitch receiver, fifth-wheel rails, gooseneck hitch, or other items.
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Hey, everybody, how's it going Today, we're gonna be showing you how to use the Curt Fish Wire Bolt Leader. So you wanna make sure that you get the correct fish wire depending on what size bolt you have, and thankfully, Curt makes these in a few different sizes. For starters, you're gonna have a 3/8 inch, a 7/16 inch, a 1/2 inch and a 5/8 inch. So the first thing we need to do is we need to determine what size fish wire we need because there's several different ones. Now, when I talk about size, I'm not talking about the length of it. I'm talking about the size of this coiled portion here.
So there's gonna be all different kinds of sizes that are gonna match up with the common sizes used for hitch bolts. So this one here is a carriage bolt with a 7/16 inch diameter. So we're gonna be using the corresponding fish wire here, which is gonna be the 7/16-inch fish wire. So once we determine that we have the correct size fish wire, what I like to do is I like the bend the end here, the pointy end, that way when we stick our hitch up into position and you stick this through the hole in your hitch, it doesn't slide back out. This is gonna serve as a little stopper.
Now, I think it's another good point to make is that while we're using fish wire, I always like to make sure I have safety glasses on because these things are very sharp and they're springy so they could potentially put out your eye. So we've got our safety glasses here. I'm gonna go make sure I put these on. Now, the coiled end is gonna go through the hole that we want our bolt to go through and then we're gonna be fishing it out our access hole. So a lot of this is gonna vary depending on your particular vehicle or what you're installing it on, but for our Subaru Outback here, the hole that we're gonna be using is in the bottom of the frame.
So we'll jump under there in a second and show you that, but we're gonna be placing our coiled end through that hole that we want the bolt to come out of, and then we're gonna be fishing it out our access hole. So now, I'm gonna take the coiled end of our fish wire and I'm gonna be placing it through the hole that we want our bolt to come through, and now, here's our access hole. So I'm gonna take the fish wire here, the coiled end, and I'm gonna pull it out through the access hole. Now you wanna make sure you don't pull it too far, 'cause we obviously don't wanna pull through our other side of our fish wire and then I'm gonna hold onto the fish wire and I'm going to carefully thread on our carriage bolt. So we're gonna thread that all the way on.
Now, if your particular one uses a spacer block, you wanna go ahead and place that over the coiled end before you put on the carriage bolt. A lotta times, when you're fish wiring into the frame, there's both a spacer block and a carriage bolt, but this particular one here has the bosses already drilled into the hitch there, so you don't need a spacer block, but now, we're just gonna grab the other side of our fish wire there, feed our hardware through the access hole, and now, we'll just pull the other side of our fish wire down through the hole there, bring our bolt along with it. Now, if you have more than one hole that you need to do this to, chances are you are, and you only have one fish wire, you wanna make sure that you unthread it as opposed to just pulling it straight off. So once we have our fish wire off, we'll take our flange nut here and we'll go ahead and thread it onto the carriage bolt. Now, you wanna be careful when you're threading this on because you don't wanna push the bolt back up into the frame. So a lot of the times, I like to take a finger or if you have a conical tooth washer you're installing along with the nut. You'll use that to put pressure on the side of the bolt, so you're not pushing it back up into the frame. So another common fish wire technique that's used a lot, it's sort of similar to the one we just showed you, but it's called reverse fish wire. So with reverse fish wire, there's only one hole and that's your attachment hole. What you're going to do is you're gonna first take your fish wire here, the coiled end, and you're gonna place your spacer block over the fish wire like so, and then you're actually going to thread on your carriage bolt. So you're actually gonna be doing all this outside of the hole, and then what you're gonna do is you're gonna take the head of the carriage bolt. You're gonna stick that up through your attachment hole, shove that into the frame, follow that up with your carriage bolt, and then you're just gonna pull both of them down through the hole like so, and this is how it should sit inside the frame of the vehicle, and you'll just simply unscrew your fish wire, and that's gonna do it for our look at the Curt Fish Wire Bolt Leader..
Average Customer Rating: 4.9 out of 5 stars (35 Customer Reviews)
This bolt leader helps you easily pull 5/8" bolts or other hardware through hard-to-access holes in your vehicle's frame. The fish wire tool helps you install a trailer hitch receiver, fifth-wheel rails, gooseneck hitch, or other items.Great support and great produts. I am always happy to get products from these folks.
Perfect fit. However room to put rail bolts to brackets is very tight. The bolts have to be tighten with a wrench. No room for socket set. I use a wrench with a bar extension to tighten the bolts.
The Fish Wire Bolt Leader made putting my trailer hitch on much simpler than it would have been without it. I highly recommend this product. I sent back and bought other sizes in case I need them for similar jobs. This is too handy of a tool not to have.
The 5/8 bolt fishwires that we used to install my draw tite front hitch on my 2012 F150 worked great. Couldn't have done it without them. Upon looking under my truck, I noticed that in order to service or remove rack and pinion steering if needed, I don't think the bolts attaching the steering unit will clear the front hitch, so the hitch may need to be removed sometime. So I ordered a couple of extra sets of fish wires to reinstall the hitch if need be, because fish wires are only usable one time.
Very snug fit. Difficult installation for my truck. Needed to order extra fish wire after I pulled too hard to get a bolt in. For $2 each they should include a couple extra fish wires and save the extra week I had to wait to finish the install.
My advice; order extras when you order the hitch
These leader wires are good, high quality items. Very useful for pulling bolts through car frames for installing hitches and many other items. Fast shipping from etrailer too!
The part worked great a advertised
Installation time was less than half what it would have taken to install without these great fish wires. Excellent product and customer service. Thanks etrailer
This Product made it easy to install the hardware for my new trailer hitch. it was a must have.
The hitch is good, the installation videos are a great help. The delivery was faster than expected. Thanks
A must have for your toolbox
For the price you can not go wrong, they come in handy
delivered quickly, product was exactly what I ordered and wanted.
Daniel P.
7/25/2022
The wire nut pull worked great in helping get a bolt through a tough located hole
Great delivery, really nice product, but sad to say I couldn't use the item, frame rails on the car are rusted through
You got it to me quick it was exactly what you said there were extras that I was not planning on it was a great deal
I got the wire very quikly and it made my job much more fun to do with my grandsons
Worked great. Do not know how I would have got the bolts in without that tool.
GREAT PRODUCT A MUST FOR THE TOOL BOX
Excellent, just what i needed to make the job easy.
Took awhile to receive. Great product.
Communication with my order was excellent. Thanks
only used one Time ,it worked PERFECT .Thanks
Works as it should. Great shipping.
Great product.
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7/2/2015
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