I am new to the forum, but not new to Dodge trucks. I'm on my sixth truck, fourth Cummins. I use the truck for out of town work and use the 4x4 all the time. But my frustration is not with the performance or reliability of the truck. I love the trucks.
My problem is that I travel in it - recently a lot. In the mid-2000s Dodge did away with the usual place for a clothes bar in favor of the stupid hook above the rear window. On my first truck with that feature I pulled loose two the them; later a broke two of them. I have tried to fabricate my own solution, but to no avail.
Does any one have a way to hang more than two shirts or a couple of pairs of jeans in this accursed truck???

 

Hang a clothesline?

 

build a closet in the bed?

 

Have the wife take care of the dry cleaning for you in her minivan? Seriously though, I've hung a lot of things from those hooks and have never had a problem. How much are you trying to hang from each hook?

 

hang a clothes line? Now thats some good stuff

 

When I have a ton of stuff to carry, I use one of the large snap D-Rings that you can get from Lowes/Home Depot. The D-Ring snaps through the smaller stock hook, then you can just hang a bunch of clothes though the ring. As long as you don't get too crazy and put too much weight on it, it'll hold quite a few things on there. It won't give you as much capacity as the clothes bars, but it's a large improvement over the stock hooks.

 

Make a bar out of aluminum pipe, drill a hole at each end and place over the hooks and you have a big clothes bar.