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Gen-Y Iron Grip Anti-Rattle Hitch Pin for 2-1/2" Hitch Receivers - 5/8" Diameter
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Gen-Y Iron Grip Anti-Rattle Hitch Pin for 2-1/2" Hitch Receivers - 5/8" Diameter

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Keep your Gen-Y Hitch adjustable ball mount from rattling in your 2-1/2" hitch receiver with this sturdy, anti-rattle hitch pin. Insert into the pin hole in your truck's 2-1/2" receiver. Stainless steel resists rust and corrosion. 1-800-940-8924 to order Gen-Y Hitch hitch pins and clips part number GY99FR or order online at etrailer.com. Free expert support on all Gen-Y Hitch products. Great prices and Fastest Shipping for Gen-Y Iron Grip Anti-Rattle Hitch Pin for 2-1/2" Hitch Receivers - 5/8" Diameter. Hitch Pins and Clips reviews from real customers.
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Gen-Y Hitch Hitch Pins and Clips - GY99FR

  • Fits 2-1/2 Inch Hitch
  • Standard Hitch Pin
  • 5/8 Inch Diameter
  • Gen-Y Hitch
  • Flush Pin

Keep your Gen-Y Hitch adjustable ball mount from rattling in your 2-1/2" hitch receiver with this sturdy, anti-rattle hitch pin. Insert into the pin hole in your truck's 2-1/2" receiver. Stainless steel resists rust and corrosion.


Features:

  • Anti-rattle hitch pin keeps your Gen-Y Hitch adjustable ball mount from rattling side-to-side in your truck's 2-1/2" hitch receiver
    • Also works on the ball mount or hitch accessory in your 10K or 16K Gen-Y Hitch stacked receivers
    • Can be used as a theft deterrent
  • Simple installation - insert into hitch pin or accessory pin hole, cover with sleeve, and tighten down with wrench
  • Stainless steel resists rust and corrosion
  • Made in the USA


Specs:

  • Application: 2-1/2" x 2-1/2" hitch receivers
  • Diameter: 5/8"


Note: Designed for use with solid shank ball mounts only.



GH-022 GenY IronGrip Anti Rattle Hitch Pin for 2.5" x 2.5" Receivers - 5/8" Diameter





Video of Gen-Y Iron Grip Anti-Rattle Hitch Pin for 2-1/2" Hitch Receivers - 5/8" Diameter

Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.




Video Transcript for The Low-Down on the Gen-Y Iron Grip Anti-Rattle Hitch Pin for 2-1/2" Hitch Receivers

Hey everybody, how's it going Today we're going to be going over and showing you how to install the gen Y iron grip anti-rattle hitch pin lock. So the iron grip is going to be offered for two inch, two and a half inch and three inch trailer hitch receivers. For this demonstration, we're going to be showing it on a two and a half inch trailer hitch. So this is what our hitch pin looks like installed. Now all of our components here are going to have a nice stainless steel finish. So you know they're going to be durable well-made and it's also going to prevent any issues we might have down the road with rust and corrosion.

Now being a hitch pin that it's on the outside of the vehicle, sort of towards the bottom, these things do get abuse from the weather so it's nice to know that we have that stainless steel construction. It's going to prevent any issues down the line. So there's definitely plenty of locking hitch pins to choose from on the market. This certainly isn't the only one. But what the iron grip does that not a lot of the other ones do is it has a built-in anti-rattle mechanism.

So in regards to anti-rattle, that's sort of a problem area for solid steel ball mounts because there really isn't any room to get any sort of tightening mechanism in there to help secure and snug up the connection. However, with this hitch pin here it has a pretty unique design. It uses a sleeve that really helps pin the shank inside the receiver tube to give us a nice and secure connection. So to show you guys how well that anti-rattle mechanism works, we're going to go ahead and grab the shank on our ball mount here and I'm just going to shake it back and forth. And if we did everything correctly we should actually see the truck move as opposed to seeing the shank of our ball mount moving around inside that receiver tube.

You can see there, it's a pretty solid connection. It's definitely going to cut down on that rattle and noise that we usually have. So in addition to the anti-rattle mechanism this also doubles as a hitch lock because let's face it, with our larger trucks here using the adjustable drop ball mounts these things can definitely get expensive. So it's going to be worthwhile to protect your investment. Now, I know what you're going to be thinking.

Where is the actual locking mechanisms seeing how it doesn't use keys but the way these little ends here are designed on this actual hitch pin most standard sockets are actually not going to work. I actually went ahead and tried to and I couldn't find one that actually worked with this. You're going to have to use the included tool with your kit. So if you're familiar with hitch mounted accessories, ball mounts in particular, you know that there's always going to be some rattle here with your ball mount no matter how high end of a ball mount you choose. There's definitely going to be some movement here. But that's not necessarily due to poor manufacturing. These things are actually designed to be a little loose because we actually do have to install and remove them quite frequently in the receiver tube. So we can't have too tight of a connection or else it's just going to make things that much more difficult. Therefore, these things are actually designed with a little bit of slot built in just to make things a little bit easier on us. But with this slot we're going to get some unnecessary rattle. It's kind of annoying. It's not something we want to hear when we're driving down the road, especially when we're towing our nice trailer, therefore by purchasing an anti-rattle hitch pin, we're going to get rid of all those issues. So the great thing about the iron grip, it will obviously work with gen Y stacked receiver ball mounts but we can pretty much use it with any other adjustable ball mount on the market, such as the way safe option that we have it hooked up to here. So when we're actually ready to remove our ball mount, we're going to take our included tool here, just simply turn it counterclockwise to loosen. And then once you break it free, it's pretty easy to get the rest off by hand. So we don't want to remove this completely because since the anti-rattle mechanism here is pinning the shank inside the receiver tube, we're actually going to need to take a hammer. We're going to hit the end of that little knob there just to free everything up and break it loose. And then what we can do we can remove it the rest of the way and pull that out. And we need to jiggle the ball mount a little bit in order to get that sleeve out as well. But now we can go ahead and just simply remove our ball mount. So we're going to first start out by inserting our ball mount into the trailer hitch receiver, and then lining up our hitch pin holes. Now we can take our hitch pin with our serrated washer here and we can install it on either side. It doesn't matter. We'll just simply insert it through there like so. Now once we have our hitch pin in we're going to take our sleeve, this is what our sleeve looks like the flange here is going to be facing away from the hitch. Then we're going to take the end of our hitch pin here, our little nut lock. We'll just simply thread that on. Once we start getting some resistance we can take the included wrench. Now we're going to put pressure on this side of the hitch pin to hold it still and then we'll just take our wrench and start tightening. So once we have enough pressure on our hitch pin here we shouldn't have to hold the other side but now we're just going to go ahead and snug down the end here, give it a nice couple of good pulls here to really tighten it up and that should be good. So once we get it tightened up, we're going to go ahead and throw our wrench in the truck there so we don't lose it but that's going to do it today for our look at installation of the gen Y iron grip anti-rattle hitch pin lock..

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Gen-Y Iron Grip Anti-Rattle Hitch Pin for 2-1/2" Hitch Receivers - 5/8" Diameter - GY99FR

Average Customer Rating:  3.8 out of 5 stars   (47 Customer Reviews)

Keep your Gen-Y Hitch adjustable ball mount from rattling in your 2-1/2" hitch receiver with this sturdy, anti-rattle hitch pin. Insert into the pin hole in your truck's 2-1/2" receiver. Stainless steel resists rust and corrosion.

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Living in Michigan with salt, I have learned to hate lock pins with a key. This pin, not only is an anti-rattle, but it makes theft very difficult. No more having to cut off a rusted lock pin. This is the only type of pin I will use for hitches.

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Ron

4/3/2024

After a year, This pin works very well. You may need to tap the inner sleeve out if it gets stuck, but its not a big deal after youve done it once or twice. After a year of use, Id still highly recommend it.



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Took about 90 percent of the movement out. Works much better than a standard pin for sure.



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Not sure what the problem is? I watched video and installed as instructed and it did nothing to take up slack and alleviate rattle. This was tried on a 2021 Toyota Tacoma with a Schuck hitch.?

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Jenny N.

2/1/2022

I reached out to Gen-Y. This pin is designed for use with solid shank ball mounts only. If the ball mount has a hollow shank then it will not work as intended.



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Looked pretty at first but started to show rust after about a month. Anti-Rattle lasted about a month too before having to be retightened. Since I was unable to return it, I'll use it (with rattles) until I can find a replacement that is compatible or replace the entire tow hitch.



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It worked great for anti rattle until I tried taking it off my truck. It flared part of the pin that made it unusable the next time I tried using it.



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Work fine but a little hard to install due to clearance problems with the trucks hitch installation. It’s a ram 2500 issue



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A advertised, quick shipping



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The end rusted in 2 days looks bad but product works good

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Katrina B.

8/25/2022

That is not good to hear that this item has rusted. This item is made with a stainless steel that should resist rust and corrosion. I have sent your information over to our customer service department for them to assist you.



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So far so good



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Works great worth every penny



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Very secure and quiets the rattling!



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Fast



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Stopped the rattle as advertised!



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Awesome!!!



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Tightens down well. Stops all side to side movement but does not help with the up amd down slack in the reciever. Will still require the rubber bushing that B&w sells or some other sort of lock down device if you are looking to get rid of the up and down play.



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Not sure how this is supposed to work but it does absolutely nothing to prevent rattle. Complete waste of money. And yes, this was used on a 3" Super Duty receiver


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