So this morning I took the second step on my Supercab restoration by removing the tailgate. It has quite a bit of bubble rust, I plan to wire wheel it tonight when I get home from school but first I need to remove the tailgate trim without breaking any of it because I don't have a parts truck yet. I was wondering if anyone can give me any instruction on how to do this.
Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance

 

Get yourself an old school bottle opener and tape up the tip. use that carefully to pry up from the bottom of the trim. there are a few screws in the ends that will need to be removed from what i can remember. The big ford chrome cover has about 8 nuts on the inside of the tailgate that needs to be removed. Just drop the tailgate and they should be there. just be carefull and look on the ends of the trim and you will find them.

Tim

 

Ok I'm goin goin to try it right now, i know what two screws you are talking about on the bottom trim pice. I dropped the tailgate this mornin so it should be pretty easy from here on out. Thanks Tim!

 

not a problem

 

I just got it all off, the bottle opener worked great. It really wasent that hard it just takes a lot of patchince. O and whoever came up with the idea of those weird nuts on the edge of the trim peice on the handel is officially stupid.

 

yep those things are stupid i have to agree with you. Glad to hear you got it off.

 

I broke one trim peice bold gettin it off(witch is fixable) and decided that when I put it back together I'm just gonna use regular 3/8 nuts