Flareside tailgate option

Reply Subscribe

Thread Tools

Search this Thread

Jul 11, 2011 | 11:58 AM

BlueOvalBud

Thread Starter

Posting Guru

Joined: Dec 2006

Posts: 1,389

Likes: 0

From: Massachusetts

Flareside tailgate option

Hey fellas,
I'm looking at getting a bed for my 86 F150 shortbed. A local yard has a 93 flareside bed for sale without the tailgate...it's sold already. Through research of other threads I'm pretty sure I'm SOL until I find one in a junkyard. I was able to look at a budy's 94 F150 flareside and noticed the latch was on the inside of the bed...and it looks weird. How would you open the latch with a bed full of mulch? Is it possible it's a Bronco tailgate or something? I have absolutely no idea...
I have been determined to get a cool flareside...but if tailgates are next to impossible to find, a standard shortbed will have to do.

Jul 11, 2011 | 12:00 PM

im2tall33

Post Fiend

Joined: Sep 2009

Posts: 23,620

Likes: 2

From: Coeur d alene, Id

that latch was aftermarket for sure.. ive owned 2 flaresides and neither had the latch on the inside..

Jul 11, 2011 | 12:01 PM

im2tall33

Post Fiend

Joined: Sep 2009

Posts: 23,620

Likes: 2

From: Coeur d alene, Id

oh and one thing you do need to realize is you give up alot of bed space with a flarside..i love them but man you dont have much room back there

Jul 11, 2011 | 03:33 PM

kentuckyredneck

Senior User

Joined: May 2010

Posts: 473

Likes: 0

And you shouldn't put any 8th/9th Gen. ('87-96) bed on a 7th Gen. ('80-86). The wheel cut-outs in the fenders are mad different, It would look like crap.