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Extend the length of your towing system without having to buy new safety cables. Extensions add an extra 8" so you can use high-low receivers, hitch adapters, and other accessories. Includes quick links for easy hook-up.
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Today we're going to be taking a looking at the Roadmaster 8 inch safety cable extensions. These are going to extend the length of your towing system, without having to buy new safety cables. Extensions add on an extra 8 inches, so you can use high low receivers, hitch extensions, and other accessories. It's going to come with both cables, and it's going to come with the quick links. The cables are a braided steel construction. Nice strong, durable design.
Here in the center it's going to have a vinyl coating. The coating is going to help keep the cables from scratching any component of your towing setup. The cable portion, with the vinyl coating, has a diameter of around 3/8 of an inch. The quick links are made from a steel construction, with a zinc finish to resist rust and corrosion. They feature a threaded connector right here, for easy connecting and disconnecting. It can be done by hand, or you could use a wrench if you want to.
A 5/8 inch wrench, or a 15mm wrench would work well for this unit. I want to give some measurements right here of the actual quick link. If we take a look at the overall length and width, measuring from outer edge to outer edge, that's going to measure about 3 and 3/16 of an inch going that way. About 1 and 9/16 of an inch going this direction. Pretty close to 1 and 5/8 measuring from the outer point of the barrel to the side right here. The opening that we have between these two areas right here, so measuring the opening of that gap. That's going to measure pretty close to half an inch, about 7/16 of an inch, right in that area.
Internally . I also want to mention real quick, that the diameter of the unit is going to be 3/8 of an inch. You can see here that the threaded portion of the quick link is a little bit larger in diameter, that's actually going to have a diameter of about 7/16 of an inch to 1/2 an inch. These simply allow for easy connecting and disconnecting of the cables. If we measure the usable space on the inside, going lengthwise, we're looking about 2 and, pretty close to 2 and 1/2 inches, maybe 2 and 9/16. If we measure right below that barrel, that's going to give us about 3/4 of an inch.
If we measure right to the barrel, we're looking at about 5/8 of an inch. These are very easy to use. Again, nice strong, durable construction. They're going to add, or offer, about 8 inches of extension. They have that 8,000 pound capacity. That's going to do it for today's look at the Roadmaster 8 inch safety cable extensions. .
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Ratings & Reviews
Chip C.
6/10/2016
They work great. Put on a new actuator that lengthened the neck of my trailer. This made a quick fix without having to replace the safety chains.
Mike L.
11/26/2018
Thats a great question. The 2200 lb figure from the quick links refers to the Working Load Limit of the quick links, which applies when the gate or threaded portion of the link is open not fastened. When the gate is secured, the breaking strength is 5 times the 2200 lb working load limit, or 11000 lb. In this case, the cables are rated at 8000 lb so capacity of the system as a whole is 8000 lbs.
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David
8/26/2026
1 year later still great. One of the best items for my 6 lifted truck, could use a bungee cord to slightly hold away from the ground a smidge. 10 out of 10.