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When you’re facing packed snow, slush, or icy roads, the twist-link chain design really helps you dig in. The twisted links bite into the surface better than standard round links, giving you the traction you need to pull through deep snow or slick inclines without spinning out. It’s a dependable grip for tough winter driving and wide-base tires that see heavy snow.
Getting chains snug on your tires can be tricky, especially in bad weather, but the built-in cam-style side chains take the struggle out. Once they’re wrapped on, just twist the cams to pull each chain tight around the tire. That quick tensioning means you spend less time adjusting in the snow and more time driving with confidence.
Designed for on-road use, the ladder-style pattern of these chains gives a smooth, consistent ride while improving straight-line traction on snowy highways. You’ll feel the chains grip evenly across the surface, which helps keep you stable and steady when the snow piles up on your regular routes.
Each link is made from low-carbon steel for lasting durability through repeated use. The steel construction handles the strain of winter driving conditions without bending or breaking down. With proper care, you can count on these chains to keep performing season after season.
These chains are built for high-flotation, super-single, or wide-base-rim tires, and they can even handle dual-tire setups when spacing allows. With coverage for 20" to 22-1/2" tires, they’re ideal for larger setups that need serious traction capability in snowy conditions.
These chains fit the following tire sizes:
Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Today we're going to be taking a look at the Glacier Twisted Length Snow Tire Chain with cam tensioners. These are available in a wide variety of sizes to fit many different applications. Designed for highway use and not intended for off road applications, our tire chains do have a 30 mile an hour speed rating. As you can see, we've got a twisted length design. That gives us a raised edge on two points of our length to help get good traction for when we're taking off and stopping. They've constructed it using a low carbon steel, so we're not going to have to worry about a ton of corrosion. These chains have been designed for highway use.
They've got a rounded edge, it kind of smooths out our ride going down the road. Also, these chains are great for use on the rear axle or the front axle of front wheel drive and rear wheel drive vehicles. They've designed it in a ladder style. This is going to help us with taking off and stopping in a straight line so that this chain is going to go all the way across our tire. Now that we've gone over the features, let's show you how to get this installed. As you can see, we've spread it out here to check to make sure we have all the twists out and things like that, make sure we don't have any kinks.
Then we'll grab the side away from our tensioners. We just want to work this up and over our tire. We'll set this so that our front ladder rung or the first cross chain will sit there in front of the vehicle. Now it's time to roll it forward and allow those lengths to go underneath our wheel there. As you can see, we've got it up to about our third or fourth spot here. We'll now take the tag end, we're going to connect it on one of the six lengths there.
Let's do the fourth one, what I like to do is let those hang down so we're getting a direct connect onto our length. As you can see, we do have three extras hanging over there on the back side. We'll bring it around to the front. We've got a plus or a minus of one, so we have the option of using the third the fourth or the fifth length. I think the fourth is going to serve our purpose here. Bring that through, cam that over and there's a spare length that's hanging out here.
That's just going to go over and hold that into place for us. It's now time to start tightening our tensioners. We'll use our tensioning tools, place it in and rotate them around. As you can see, that's going to draw in some of the slack we've got and get each of our lengths of chains nice and tight. Now that we've got all of our cams tight, you'll see our chain's tightened up. We still have three excess lengths hanging off of each side of our chain here. One option would be to try to tuck that in behind our chain, to where it's not going to be flipping around. The other option would just be to cut it right off there, remove it completely. That way you won't have to worry about it slipping out as you're heading down the road. As with any manually adjusted chain, we do recommend the use of a chain tensioner. The one I've got here today is a really neat one from Glacier, the part number on it is PW105. It's got six lengths on it, as you can see, you're just going to connect those kind of evenly around our tire. That one's not so even. Kind of connect those evenly around, that's going to give us that extra little bit of force that we need to really hold our chains in place. Now that we've seen how the chain installs and how it's going to fit onto our vehicle, let's take a look and see how it performs with some footage we have of it in action. That will complete today's look at the Glacier Twist Length Snow Tire Chains with cam tighteners. .
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Louis J.
12/9/2015
Chains performed great thru many heavy wet snowstorms. Pulled out a stuck dump truck no problem,and they still look kike new. Thanks for the inquiry Louis J